Members of the Centre for Health and Clinical Research
Director
| Name |
Key research interests |
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Centre Director and Professor of Long Term Conditions |
Physical activity; rheumatoid arthritis; cancer; fatigue; pain; rehabilitation interventions. |
Staff and research members
Staff members
| Name | Key research interests |
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Professor of Emergency Care |
Academic emergency care; service delivery and organisation; evaluation of new techniques and technologies; alcohol and drug use; pre-hospital care; emergency airway management. |
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Senior Lecturer |
Child health care provision in acute and community settings; services for children with complex needs; children's end of life and palliative care; action research approaches to developing staff and improving care; realistic evaluation of services: educational preparation for practice; improving coordination of care by multi-disciplinary teams; policy and practice evaluation. |
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Senior Lecturer - Applied Pharmacology |
Innovation in healthcare; digital health; diabetes care. |
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Professor of Mental Health Research (Dementia) |
Dementia. |
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Associate Professor in Continence Care |
Improving the care of individuals with incontinence to improve symptom and quality of life outcomes; embedded qualitative studies to explore the patients' perspective within randomised controlled trials to address continence difficulties; development of patient reported outcome measures for lower pelvic dysfunction. |
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Associate Professor of Long Term Conditions and Portfolio Lead: Health and Social Wellbeing Research |
Physiotherapist, with interest in exercise and movement science, and neurological rehabilitation. |
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Associate Professor in Family and Child Health |
Child and adolescent health; policy and practice evaluation. |
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Senior Research Fellow |
Clinical trials, research ethics, psychiatry and neurology. |
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Trial Co-ordinator |
Dementia care and pain sciences. |
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Associate Professor: Rheumatology and Self-Management |
The psychosocial impact of long term conditions; in particular the measurement and self-management of rheumatoid arthritis. |
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Senior Lecturer, Occupational Therapy |
Evaluation and action enquiry. |
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology |
Masculinity and men's health, particularly support for men with rheumatic diseases; self-management and help-seeking behaviours; rheumatoid arthritis flares and remission; qualitative methods; Q-methodology. |
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Senior Research Fellow |
Urgent and emergency care; evaluation of new techniques and technologies; pre-hospital care; out-of-hospital birth; health inequalities; ethnic inequalities in maternal/perinatal outcomes; end of life care; virtual visiting; maternal and neonatal health; cardiac arrest; autism. |
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Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy |
Musculoskeletal and sports injury assessment and management; myofascial pain including myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) and myofascial trigger point (MTrP) therapy. |
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Senior Lecturer Primary Care - Academic In Practice |
Primary and community health services evaluation; new roles and services; service quality. |
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Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy |
Neurological rehabilitation; motor control and learning; therapeutic/manual handling; diagnostic ultrasound (shoulder region). |
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Senior Lecturer in Pain Science and Occupational Therapy |
Perceptual disturbances in chronic pain; body perception disturbance; the use of virtual reality in treating chronic pain; brain imaging - specifically MRI and fMRI; developing interests in EEG and TMS; clinical rehabilitation techniques and outcomes; co-designing projects with those in chronic pain; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome; osteoarthritis. |
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Associate Professor in Clinical Research |
Pain sciences. |
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Senior Research Fellow |
Paediatric emergency medicine; childhood head injury; childhood wheeze. |
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Professor in Nursing and Pain Sciences |
Musculoskeletal; pain management; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. |
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Research methods; resuscitation; e-learning and health informatics; clinical skills and simulation; evaluation and service improvement. |
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Senior Lecturer Rheumatology Nursing |
Patient education; models of care and outcome measurement in people with long-term conditions. |
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Senior Research Fellow |
Pre-hospital care; emergency care; paramedic science; trauma care; minor trauma in the older adult; minor head injury. |
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Professor of Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation |
Assessment and management of musculoskeletal conditions, including knee osteoarthritis; joint hypermobility syndrome, low back pain; patellofemoral pain syndrome and carpal tunnel syndrome; Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST); electroanalgesia; sensory assessment in stroke. |
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Senior Physiotherapy Lecturer |
Knowledge mobilisation. |
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Consultant Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology
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Rheumatology; systemic vasculitides (specifically Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitis and giant cell arteritis). |
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Senior Research Fellow |
Pre-hospital, urgent and emergency care research, workforce organisation, bioethics, health promotion. |
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Rehabilitation |
Sport injury prevention, musculoskeletal conditions and exercise physiology. |
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Wallscourt Fellow in Health Technology |
Data science in healthcare (improving diagnosis and understanding of diseases); bioinformatics (microbiome and DNA analysis) and health patient record systems (improving data workflow). |
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Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy (Clinical Academic Research) |
Elective orthopaedic surgery; lower limb; joint replacement; arthroplasty image interpretation; mixed methods research; service design, delivery, and evaluation; clinical audit. |
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Senior Lecturer |
Stroke rehabilitation and recovery; application of neuroscience to rehabilitation. |
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Associate Professor in Emergency Care |
Emergency care; dementia. |
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Professor of Knowledge Mobilisation and Musculoskeletal Health |
Musculoskeletal; rheumatology. |
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Senior Lecturer in Radiography |
Health care ethics; ethical issues surrounding transplantation procedures especially face transplants and ethical decision making within multi-disciplinary teams. |
Emeritus Professors
| Name and title | Research interests |
|---|---|
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Emeritus Professor Sarah Hewlett |
Arthritis; self-management of arthritis; questionnaire development; outcomes of treatment. |
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Emeritus Professor Sue Roulstone |
Speech and language therapy with children; evaluation of speech and language therapy service delivery; children and family perspectives on speech and language impairments; epidemiology of speech and language impairments; professional judgement and decision making. |
Visiting roles
| Name, title and role | Key research interests |
|---|---|
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Research Fellow |
Knowledge mobilisation. |
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Dr Amanda Bond (nee Longley) Senior Research Fellow |
Health economics; health research. |
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Dr Edward Carlton Visiting Professor |
Emergency medicine. |
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Professor Robert Crouch Visiting Professor |
Emergency medicine. |
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Visiting Fellow |
Rheumatology; physiotherapy. |
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Professor Krysia Dziedzic |
Musculoskeletal therapies. |
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Ashley Firkins Clinical Psychologist, RUH Bath Visiting Fellow |
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and complex cancer late effects. |
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Dr Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert Visiting Fellow |
Chronic pain management - pain psychology and rehabilitation. |
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Visiting Fellow |
Diagnostic medical ultrasound; Allied Health Professions (AHP) leadership and perceptorship; workforce development. |
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Visiting Research Fellow Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist at North Bristol |
Chronic pain management and chronic fatigue management. |
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Visiting Fellow |
Health and wellbeing of families, children and young people. |
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Dr Sarah Green Associate Director of Education at UHBW, Bristol; Visiting Fellow |
Education and workforce strategy. |
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Sharon Grieve Visiting Research Fellow |
Pain sciences. |
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Dr Anne Haase |
Behaviour change in physical activity. |
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Robert Hirst Visiting Fellow |
Emergency medicine. |
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Visiting Professor |
Realist methodology. |
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Professor Dr Sunil Kumar Joshi Visiting Professor Occupational Physician |
Preventive and community medicine. |
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Visiting Fellow |
Urgent care and musculoskeletal injury; digital health technology. |
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NIHR/HEE Clinical Lecturer at Weston General Hospital |
Hip arthroplasty surveillance. |
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Visiting Fellow |
Stakeholder engagement in healthcare education and healthcare policy. |
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Visiting Fellow |
Continence and Patient-reported outcome measurement. |
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Dr Johannes Von Vopelius-Feldt Visiting Fellow |
Emergency medicine. |
PhD students
| Name | Title of PhD |
|---|---|
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Harley Anderson |
Evaluating the application of value-based healthcare in the NHS. |
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Julie Armoogum |
Exploring the experiences and needs of cancer survivors with persistent pain. |
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Claire Bennett |
Addressing the support needs of patients with oesophageal cancer and their carers during their cancer journey. |
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Emma Douglass |
Supporting healthcare decision making with adults who have a learning disability. |
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Simon Goldsworthy |
Determining the clinical importance of patient comfort in radiotherapy Determining the clinical importance of patient comfort in radiotherapy (DECIPHER). |
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Nicky Harris |
Using eHealth to support the provision of children's palliative care: What works, for whom, in what circumstances, and why? |
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Pauline Humphrey |
Development of an intervention to reduce distress caused by brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer. |
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Developing and testing an educational intervention to reduce self-reported anxiety levels amongst patients referred for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Computed Tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging. |
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Kim Kirby |
Improving the ambulance recognition and response for patients who are at imminent risk of cardiac arrest. |
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Csaba Marafko |
The long term effect of partial plantar fascia release in patients with chronic plantar fasciitis. |
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Kevin McDermott |
Biomechanical analysis of long term gait after total hip replacement and the effects of gait retraining. |
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Tom Roberts |
Developing a complex intervention for patients presenting to the Emergency Department with acute severe headache with the primary aim of decreasing downstream healthcare resource use. |
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Kelly Spurlock |
Exploring how caregivers engage with sources of information regarding the introduction of complementary feeding to an infant and caregiver wellbeing. |
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Anne-Marie Sweeney |
Defining and refining nurse-led care for people with early rheumatoid arthritis. |
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Ema Swingwood |
A feasibility study examining the use of Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation to prevent extubation failure in adult intensive care. |
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Suzanne van Even |
Coping strategies, psychological impact and support preferences of black men with rheumatic diseases. |
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Ruben Walsh |
Exploring coping strategies demonstrated by young men in response to inflammatory arthritis. |
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Jennifer Wheeldon |
VOICE (Views On Incontinence Care in care homes: an Exploration). |