University of Southampton

Faculty Member, Rehabilitation and Health Technologies Research Group

Other Affiliations: University of Southampton, ECS
University of Southampton, School of Health Sciences

Lecturer in Biomechanics

About

I am a Lecturer in Biomehanics and an Enterprise Fellow in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. I also hold a Visiting Research Fellowship in the Faculty of Physical & Applied Science at the University. Much of my research is working at the interface between engineering and rehabilitation.

I work specifically on the evaluation and validation of health technologies. I am particularly interested in technologies that measure movement and function, and developing novel methods of capturing this information. I believe that in order to facilitate the next generation of healthcare provision, health technologies must be capable of capturing and presenting clinically useful, personalised information to both rehabilitationalists, patients and carers in environments that go beyond the traditional rehabilitation clinic.

I specialise in the kinematic and biomechanical assessment of hand function and I hold a patent in this field for my work with HAWK: Hand and Wrist Kinematics. I also work on projects investigating the use of smart textiles for rehabilitation, user-led design and evaluation of haptic devices, prosthetics, body sensor networks for patient monitoring in their home environments and health technology evaluation and assessment, including the use of prosthetics and orthotics.

During my PhD I investigated the relationship between movement and function of the wrist and hand. I focused on investigating the differences in wrist movements and hand function between unimpaired and chronic stroke participants.

I have since complete a prestigious Research Council (UK) Roberts Fellowship in Life Sciences Interface before becoming a Lecturer in the Fcaulty of Health Sciences.

If you are interested in knowing more about the Southampton Hand Assessment Procedure (SHAP), including hiring or buying kits for your own research, clinical practice or company, please take a look at the new SHAP website www.shap.ecs.soton.ac.uk.

Videos of my hand biomechanics research, plus other exciting work from our Biomechanics Laboratory can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/user/UniSotonBiomech

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