Professor Christopher Morris

Chris is Professor of Child Health Research at the University of Exeter Medical School. He has led PenCRU,: the Peninsula Childhood Disability Research Unit since 2009. PenCRU now has an international reputation for pioneering approaches to meaningful family involvement in research. Chris has a portfolio of high-quality, policy-relevant applied health services and methodological research evaluating ways to improve the health and wellbeing of disabled children and their families. 

Previously Chris had 20 years experience working as an Orthotist and is passionate about supporting other allied health professionals to become childhood disability researchers. He supports several NIHR Doctoral Clinical and Academic Fellows and contributes to the British Academy of Childhood Disability Castang Research Fellowship Programme. His own Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford were awarded for research involving children with cerebral palsy. Subsequently he was a postdoctoral MRC Special Training Fellow in Health Services Research.