Prior to becoming a Lecturer within the Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation department at Northumbria University, I received a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science from the University of Chester. I then shifted my biomechanical interests to a clinical perspective where I studied an MSc in Biomechanics of Gait and Posture at Liverpool John Moores University. Following the completion of my MSc, I conducted a collaborative MRes/Ph.D. based between the Mechanical engineering department at the University of Sheffield and Newcastle University. My Ph.D. focussed on the movement of the upper body during gait and if novel ways of assessing signals obtained from wearable technology could highlight specific impairments for people with Parkinson’s disease. Thereafter I became a member of Brain and Movement Research Group where I worked as a research associate and used the knowledge I had gained from my Ph.D. to work on a variety of both national and international projects. Now I am happy to join Northumbria University where I hope my educational and research background can inspire those studying Physiotherapy and also Sport and exercise science.
My research interests connect the biomechanics of human movement and the objective quantification of gait and posture using wearable technology. In particular, I aim to determine the value of wearable technology as a means to quantify human movement from accelerometer-based data and how novel signal processing techniques may provide unique and specific biomarkers to a mixture of movement disorders. I strive towards discovering the optimum techniques of measuring human mobility so that it can both identify those at risk of mobility impairment, but also, to improve the efficacy of person-centered interventions so that people can remain physically active well into their later years.
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