Tamara Vagg is a multidisciplinary Research Fellow with the Cystic Fibrosis Adult Day Unit in the Cork University Hospital and University College Cork. Tamara's current research focuses on Digital Health Literacy for telehealth to support people with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and the CF care team.

Tamara is a co-founder and the current co-ordinator of the ECFS Telehealth for CF Working Group (THCF), starting in 2023. As of 2022, Tamara works part-time with the Cystic Fibrosis Registry of Ireland. Tamara is also a member of the EU Digital Competency (DigComp) Community of Practice (CoP), IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc): Consumer Systems for Healthcare and Wellbeing (CSH), and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) CONNECT CRC Network. 

Tamara’s previous research (PhD & Postdocs) has focused on Virtual Reality, Gamification/Serious Games, Interactive 3D, Educational Animations, Mobile Multimedia, mHealth, and eHealth for Cystic Fibrosis and other areas in medicine and healthcare. Tamara successfully defended her multidisciplinary PhD in March of 2018 under the supervision of Prof Barry Plant and Dr Sabin Tabirca, which was funded by CFMATTERS. She is also a graduate of the MSc in Interactive Media from University College Cork, and of the BA in Visual Communications from Waterford Institute of Technology.

Previous and Current Supervision:

Professional Doctorate:

• Ongoing. Candidate Name: Sarah Twohig. Current Thesis Title: The Role of the Pharmacist in the Care of People with Cystic Fibrosis.

MSc Data Science and Analytics:

• Date: Summer 2019. Student Name: Prasanth Kanderi. Research Project: The Virtual Doctor.

MSc Interactive Media:

• Date: Autumn 2019. Student Name: Aine Curran. Research Project: A Virtual Doctor: Optimising Unscheduled visits for Patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF).
• Date: Summer 2019. Student Name: Sehar Siddiqi. Research Project: A Virtual Avatar with Sentiment Analysis.
• Date: Autumn 2018. Student Name: Ciara Landers. Research Project: A Web Application to Monitor Health and Wellbeing of Cystic Fibrosis Patients.
• Date: Summer 2018. Student Name: Sean Stanton. Research Project: Personal Management Application for Cystic Fibrosis.
• Date: Summer 2018. Student Name: Lauren Morley. Research Project: A Mobile Application to Assist Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Their Daily Nutrition Intake.
• Date: Summer 2017. Student Name: Seán Barry. Research Project: An mHealth application focusing on wellbeing for those with mental health conditions.
• Date: Summer 2017. Student Name: Hugh O' Dwyer. Research Project: An mHealth application focusing on wellbeing for pharmaceutical professionals.

MSc Computer Science:

• Date: Summer 2015. Student Name: You Yuan Tan. Research Project: Cystic Fibrosis Games.