Malcolm Fisk

Malcolm Fisk has a wide range of experience relating to older people, housing and assistive technologies (notably telecare and telehealth). With regard to the latter he carries an international reputation and, as well as being widely published, he is a frequent speaker at events throughout the EU and as far afield as the United States, Australia and Taiwan; and has recently undertaken advisory work in relation to strategic telehealth matters in Canada and Estonia. The focus of Malcolm’s work has, and remains, been at the interface of health and social care and ipso facto is concerned with dilemmas relating to service provision within institutions or the wider community. This means that he grapples with challenges associated with changing service paradigms whereby people of all ages and with varied needs become supported and empowered through the technologies and services that they access.

His key achievements have included work with the Welsh Government (underpinning to development of the Office of the Older People’s Commissioner; and the Strategy for Older People in Wales); and leading the European Commission funded TeleSCoPE project to a highly successful outcome with the European (now International) Code of Practice for Telehealth Services. Malcolm’s activities continue to encourage new understandings that will impact on policy and practice at UK, European and wider international levels.

His publications are as follows:
Tabozzi, S., Fisk, M., Lievens, F., Di Pasquale, D., Paraciani, N., and Lafortuna, C (2014) ‘User Empowerment in Telehealth Practice: The Telescope Project Approach’. In: Ahram, T., Karwoeski, W., and Marek, T. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Kraków. 2014.
Fisk, M., and Raynham, P. (2014) ‘Assistive Lighting for People with Sight Loss’. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 9 (2), 128-135.
Fisk, M., Sands, G., Awang, D., Ward, G., Rose-Hayes, E., and Fielden, S. (2013) ‘Draft Workforce Learning Strategy: Supporting Employers with the Workforce Implications of Electronic Assistive Technologies’. Report to Skills for Care and Development. London.
Fisk, M., Ward, G., Awang, D., Rose-Hayes, E., Sands, G., and Fielden, S. (2013) ‘Draft Skills and Knowledge Sets: Supporting Employers with the Workforce Implications of Electronic Assistive Technologies’. Report to Skills for Care and Development. London.
Fisk, M. (2013) ‘European Code of Practice for Telehealth Services’. International Journal of Integrated Care, 13 (7).