Eirini recently joined us from Greece as part of a new fellowship exchange programme led by Yorkshire Cancer Research to advance global understanding of the benefits of exercise on cancer treatment.
Sally’s PhD explores a condition called metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors that in combination significantly raise the risk of chronic disease. Physiotherapists are well positioned to identify and manage this condition as it can be reduced or even reversed with lifestyle modification like physical activity.
Throughout May, the AWRC’s Training and Education team inspired the next generation of nurses by delivering a simulated placement opportunity to final-year students. This allowed the team to work with a large cohort of over 500 students from mental health, adult, and children’s nursing as they near the end of their studies.
Hosted by the AWRC’s neurological rehabilitation research theme, this seminar explored technological solutions to the challenges surrounding exercise and physical activity for people living with a neurological impairment, including examples from co-design and clinical implementation studies.
Jo and Hannah are MSc Occupational Therapy at Sheffield Hallam University. They recently completed a 12-week research placement at the AWRC on the Active Wait project. The project aims to help people in Sheffield needing hip and knee replacements to remain as active as possible while they wait for their surgery.
Elysa's PhD uses a socio-ecological framework to focus on physical activity after Gestational Diabetes. The work is realist-inspired, going through iterative cycles of refinement to better understand what could work to increase physical activity uptake and maintenance for women after Gestational Diabetes.
Cavan's doctoral research aims to develop an ecological framework that guides collaboration between practitioners. This is intended to improve the design of machine learning and computer vision technology in athlete development programs, which in turn will improve the skill development of athletes.