What Do We Do?

Aims of DIG are:

To understand and use digital interventions to improve people’s lives, supporting all varieties of positive behaviour and behaviour change.

To realise the potential of digital interventions by using novel and impactful methods and developing and enhancing expertise.

How do we do this? 

By providing supportive infrastructure to develop and share best practice

By enhancing opportunities for multidisciplinary / collaborative funding

By further developing our reputation as international centre of excellence for innovative digital intervention research

By embedding our research excellence into our teaching, to equip future DIG researchers.

We also collaborate with leading institutions to develop and disseminate interventions that have been disseminated nationally, such as the Living With Covid Recovery project (led by University College London) and the Antibiotic Review Kit (ARK) for hospitals (led by University of Oxford).

Technological Support


As well as supporting the different activities of researchers and educators in the field of digital interventions, we can offer technological expertise via our ‘Lifeguide’ intervention development platform. Lifeguide helps researchers (who may not have a coding background) to:

Develop interventions with the online authoring tool with minimal programming knowledge required – 

this means that students and researchers without computer science backgrounds can develop engaging and acceptable digital tools

Build Responsive Web Applications (websites that can be used on desktop and mobile) 

Visually set up user flow (what users see and when they see it) 

Securely handle user data (such as logins and survey data)

Easily send emails and SMS messages 

View in-depth usage analytics to understand how participants are using the intervention 

Additional programming support to: 

  • Create Progressive Web Applications (more app like websites)
  • Leverage a wide range of web 2.0 features such as animation, in-app notifications, gamification
  • Program more complex digital tools