Sabrina Azzi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Business within the School of Business & Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland. She earned her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Quebec in Outaouais (Canada), with a concentration in Health Informatics and Ontology Engineering. 

Dr. Azzi completed a distinguished research fellowship at the House of Commons of Canada (Parliament), where she contributed to advancing legislative intelligence through the semantic annotation of parliamentary debates, with the aim of enhancing citizen engagement and accessibility to legislative processes. Her work supported strategic initiatives aimed at modernising government operations through digital innovation. She also played a pivotal role in several high-profile digital transformation projects within the Canadian Government, including the implementation of SAP to streamline administrative processes and improve service delivery. Additionally, she was a key contributor to the development of the Software for the Evolution of Knowledge in MEDicine (SEKMED)—a cutting-edge clinical decision-support system adopted by hospitals in Hull and Gatineau (Canada), designed to enhance medical knowledge sharing and improve evidence-based clinical practice.

Her interdisciplinary research interests lie at the intersection of technology, healthcare, and user-centered design, encompassing areas such as telehealth adoption and impact assessment, digital health and ageing populations, user experience design, knowledge representation, ontology engineering, decision support systems, information systems, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation.

Dr. Azzi is open to collaborative partnerships with forward-thinking companies in the UK and internationally, particularly those exploring strategic digitalisation, public sector innovation, or sustainable transitions. I am especially interested in contributing to projects focused on digital health, AI-driven decision support, digital transformation, and the development of human-centred technologies. My interdisciplinary background, spanning digital government, semantic technologies, AI, digital health and healthcare informatics, positions me to support organisations in designing, implementing, and evaluating transformative digital solutions aligned with societal impact and sustainability goals.

Target collaborative partnerships with NHS Scotland and the UK 

Dr Sabrina Azzi is open to collaborating with the NHS in Scotland and across the UK to support ongoing digital transformation in healthcare. Drawing on her expertise in digital health, and user-centred system design, she is keen to contribute to initiatives that enhance clinical decision-making, patient care, smart homes, and the integration of innovative digital technologies.