Bioinformatics, Connected Health, Healthcare Technology, Sports Technology, Wearable Systems

Dr Godfrey is a digital health-based researcher. He was lead for his Departments/Schools Digital Health & Wellbeing research group (2020-2026) and was UoA11 Deputy lead for REF2021. He is Head of Degree Apprenticeships for his School.

He received his BEng in electronic engineering and PhD in biomedical electronics from the University of Limerick, Ireland. He also holds the MBA from Newcastle University. 

His major research interests are in wearable technology and algorithms for data science and analytics in healthcare. This includes areas of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data mining and multidimensional signal processing. He has published roughly 200 papers on those topics in various engineering and medical journals from a portfolio of translational-based research. He serves as Deputy Editor for each of the following journals: npj/Nature Digital Medicine, Maturitas and the Journal of NeuroEngineering & Rehabilitation. He was previously an International Advisory board member for Physiological Measurement.

Dr Godfrey is a Member of the Institution Engineering Technology (MIET) and Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (SMIEEE). He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

He is an Honorary Researcher with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.