The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Kieran's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Kieran
Dr Kieran Green has an interdisciplinary interest spanning health, ageing, technology-enabled care, and AI to the geographies of housing and homelessness. While wide-spanning, the key throughline in his work is a passion for improving public services for the vulnerable and seeking pragmatic and innovative solutions.
His 2024 PhD in Human Geography focused on the under-researched area of Youth Sofa Surfing. The study outlines how, in the face of a housing crisis, relationships with sofa-surfing hosts and their guests could be strengthened, and young people's visions of the future could be improved to provide a bridge to a more stable and hopeful future. From 2022-2024, Kieran worked as a researcher-in-residence at Torbay Hospital to "Building a Brighter Future" (BBF). During the BBF project, he modelled potential bed-day saved in orthopaedics and frailty from emergent technologies such as Virtual Wards, Wearables, Remote Monitoring, Early Intervention, and AI; explored the revolutionary potential of generative AI in support of the frailty-focused person-centred care initiative "What Matter To You"; outlined methods of improving their SDEC model, and how to improve the technology-enabled care implementation acute settings based on perception of local orthopaedic and frailty practitioners.
