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Staff registered as research degree supervisors - areas of expertise

Dr Liz Bryant

  • Human movement analysis, balance and performance
  • Monitoring physical activity levels
  • Exercise and ageing
  • Falls prevention
  • Quantitative research methods

Dr Vinette Cross

  • Workplace learning and professional development
  • Reflective practice
  • Professional education
  • Practice-based competence assessment
  • Culture and ethnicity in health care education, research and service development
  • Qualitative research methodologies:
    • Semi-structured interviews
    • Focus groups
    • Repertory grid technique
    • Delphi technique
    • Theme board technique
    • Narrative analysis
    • Q-methodology

Dr Angela Glynn

  • Pulmonary rehabilitation
  • COPD
  • Restrictive lung disorders
  • Exercise testing and prescription
  • Home exercise programmes
  • Non-invasive ventilation
  • Exercise in older people
  • Cardio-respiratory physiotherapy
  • Exercise for health

Dr Virginia Jenkins

  • Ergonomics
  • Client/physiotherapist relationships

Dr Raija Kuisma

  • Students' assessment of their learning
  • Assessment of problem-based learning
  • Community physiotherapy
  • Aquatic therapy and activities
  • Activities and exercise for older people

Dr Janine Leach

  • Research Methods for osteopaths and other CAM professions
  • Patient expectations and adverse events in clinical practice
  • CAM in supportive care for cancer patients
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Writing for publication
  • Researching complex interventions

Mr Alistair McInnes

  • Diabetes and the lower limb
  • Diabetes education

Dr Anne Mandy

  • Mood measurement, anxiety, depression
  • Putative role of angiotensin II in the aetiology of depressive disorders
  • Burnout in healthcare professions
  • Health psychology
  • Children with cerebral palsy
  • Occupational stress and burnout
  • Healthcare professionals' attitudes towards ageing
  • Development of a one-handed wheelchair

Dr Marion Martin

  • Practice, placement, education and competence
  • Use of occupations in forensic psychiatry
  • Multi-disciplinary collaboration and education
  • Reflective practice
  • Problem-based learning
  • Boredom
  • Mindfulness

Professor Ann Moore

  • Low back pain
  • Automobilisations/exercise therapy for the spine
  • Musculoskeletal therapy effectiveness in management of spinal conditions
  • Patient-focused research
  • Musculoskeletal dysfunction
  • Whiplash associated disorder
  • Outcome measurement in outpatient physiotherapy services
  • Clinical education
  • User perspectives of musculoskeletal care
  • Standardised data collection
  • Wellbeing and health for older people
  • Randomised controlled trials

Dr Simon Otter

  • Foot pressure measurement
  • Podiatric rheumatology
  • Rheumatology
  • Outcome measures
  • Epidemiology
  • Complementary and alternative medicine

Dr Nikki Petty

  • Learning transitions particularly at postgraduate level and in professional practice
  • Developing clinical expertise
  • Neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy
  • Spinal neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy: forces applied and grades of movement
  • Research: case study and grounded theory approaches; insider research, dimensional analysis

Dr Terry Pountney

  • Children disability
  • Neurodisability
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Hip dislocation
  • Musculoskeletal deformity
  • Posture management programmes
  • Ethical issues in research with children
  • Involving children in research

Dr Lee Price

  • Participatory action research
  • Lived experiences of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people: issues of human occupation, exclusion, isolation and health and social care
  • Human occupation and older people
  • Patients who have Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) and their health care workers
  • The psychosocial issues of physical illness and trauma
  • HIV, the self and human occupation
  • Students with dyslexia: practice placements and learning in higher education
  • Occupational therapy practitioner research and practice innovation
  • Patients who have Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) and their health care workers
  • The psychosocial issues of physical illness and trauma

Dr Lucy Redhead

  • Biomechanics
  • Shoulder pathology
  • EMG

Dr Kambiz Saber-Sheikh

  • Application of FEA (finite element analysis) to health
  • Bioengineering (biomechanics/biomaterials)
  • Quantification of stiffness and viscoelasticity of joints/tissues
  • Measurement of spinal motion/posture
  • Monitoring/research instrumentation in health

Dr Gaynor Sadlo

  • Occupational science
  • Flow and mindfulness
  • Evaluating occupational therapy
  • Problem-based learning (including in the workplace)
  • Hand use and wellbeing
  • Creative skills education for occupational therapists
  • Personal care and physical disability

Dr Beatrice Sofaer-Bennett

  • Pain management: acute, chronic
  • Counselling people in pain
  • Cultural issues in health
  • Ethical issues

Dr Graham Stew

  • Qualitative studies of reflective practice and processes of organisational and personal change
  • Studies using ethnographic and grounded theory approaches, examining the experiences of mature nursing students; experiential learning; and the inductive generation of theory
  • Mindfulness in health care
  • Shared learning in the health professions
  • Reflexivity and co-operative inquiry
  • The teaching of research
  • Student responses to assessment strategies
  • Concepts of care in the health professions
  • Inter-professional learning for undergraduate health and social care students
  • Developing mindfulness in learning and teaching
  • Phenomenology, narrative research and auto-ethnography

Dr John Wright

  • Flow theory
  • Reversal theory
  • Shared and problem-based learning