My roles include:-

1. Associate Head of School (Research) 

2. Chair of the School Of Health Professions Undergraduate Ethics Committee.

3. Teaching and curriculum development for undergraduate and masters degree programmes within the School of Health Professions. 

4. Supervision of Masters and PhD students. I am very happy to discuss PhD opportunities within the field of physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

3. Lead of the Rehabilitation Research Group (within the Peninsula Institute of Health and Care Research), which holds monthly research group meetings.

4. Research: My research is focused predominately within the field of neurological rehabilitation, with particular expertise in the design and implementation of clinical trials in the rehabilitation of people with Multiple Sclerosis .  

Examples of recently completed / ongoing research include:

• A multi-national, multi-centred 4 -armed RCT evaluating exercise and cognitive rehabilitation in people with progressive MS (COGEX trial)
  
• A multi-centred service evaluation/ scoping review and national online survey to develop a telerehabilitation toolkit for the assessment of people with physical impairments
• A multi-centred RCT investigating the clinical and cost effectiveness of a standing frame programme in people severely disabled by MS (SUMS Trial) 
• A multi-centred feasibility RCT to investigate use of web-based technology for exercises in people with MS (WEBPaMS trial). 
• A series of studies evaluating falls risk and the development of falls management interventions for people with MS (including the BRiMS trial)
  
• A series of studies which are evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of a dynamic elastomeric fabric orthosis in the management of lumbo-pelvic pain in peri and post-partum women (including the EMaPP trial). 
  

Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists 1988 - present (Fellow since 2013)

Council of Health Professions 1987 - present

Association of Physiotherapists Interested in Neurology 1988 - present

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2000 - present

A selection of roles on external bodies over the past five years include: 

Executive Board Member European“Rehabilitation in MS network for Best Practice and Research: RIMS (2014-2021)

Mentor for the NIHR Fellowship Scheme (2014 – ongoing).

Mentor for the Neurology MS Academy (2020 - ongoing).

Progressive MS Alliance “Wellness in Progressive MS” group (2018-2021)

Panel Member of the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) for the RfPB South West region (2018 - ongoing)

Member of the UK MS Register Operational Delivery Committee (2020 - ongoing)

Member of Therapists in MS Working Group (2012 - ongoing)

Member of committee for updating NICE Guidelines on MS Management (2020 - 2022) 

PhD awarded to: 

1. Teaching at degree and masters level.

• Physiotherapy, with a special interest in adult neurology
• Evidence based practice / research methodology 
• Outcome measurement

2. Supervision of masters and PhD students, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, systematic and scoping reviews.