I am a Chartered Physiotherapist with experience in both trauma and elective care settings. My specialist interest is in musculoskeletal and |Orthopaedic conditions, which has formed the primary focus of my research to date. I have led and contributed to several research projects investigating unmet rehabilitation needs in both adult and paediatric populations. I am now keen to broaden the scope of my work by applying and adapting my research skills across a range of other clinical specialisms.

Mike is an Associate Professor in Clinical Trials at the University of Warwick, with a professional background in podiatry and nearly 20 years of experience in applied clinical research. His work focusses on large-scale pragmatic clinical trials, but has included systematic literature reviews, imaging and mechanism of action studies. Mike's work aims to improve the outcomes for people with musculoskeletal and other long term conditions, and he sees developing the next generation of researchers as a key part of this.

Acquired brain injury, hidden disability, cognitive communication disorders, long term impacts following ABI, communication impact in health and social care.

Fiona has led multiple studies to evaluate self-management approaches within healthcare teams including stroke, acute brain injury and major trauma. In 2013 Fiona set up a social enterprise ‘Bridges Self-management*’, which has developed and evaluated an approach to personalised self-management support co-designed with people living with complex long-term conditions and used by more than 800 acute and community healthcare teams across the UK.

In 2014, Fiona led the first NIHR funded study to evaluate the use of Experience–Based Co-Design to explore ways to increase therapeutic activity in stroke units. Fiona is currently the Co-lead for a large NIHR funded Listen project (Long Covid Personalised Self-managemenT support- co-design and EvaluatioN) and has led on the co-design of the intervention working in partnership with people living with Long Covid- this trial completes in October 2023. Fiona is also a co-applicant on projects funded by HTA and NIHR Global Health to co-design and evaluate personalised self-management support for people living with joint pain, arthritis and stroke.

Fiona is Deputy lead for the Implementation Science theme which is part of the Applied Research Collaboration – South London, and is on the selection committee for the HEE/NIHR ICA Programme, Advanced Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (ACAF) she is also a member of the European Life After Stroke committee.

Fiona has expertise in mixed methods and participatory research, co-production, and improvement/implementation science. Her focus is on co-design and working in partnership with patients, families, and clinical teams to develop and implement self-management training, interventions and resources. She currently supervises four PhD students based in the UK and Sweden

In 2014 Fiona became a fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and in 2017 Fiona was awarded an MBE for services to rehabilitation.

*Bridges Self-Management is a social enterprise run in partnership with St Georges University of London and Kingston University www.bridgesselfmanagement.org.uk