Professor Helen Dawes

About me:

Helen Dawes is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation in the College of Medicine and Health. Helen has a clinical academic background as a physiotherapist and exercise scientist with an ambition to enable people living with conditions affecting their movement to be able to move more. She has been based at Oxford Brookes University working for the Oxford Health BRC and closely collaborating with key colleagues at the University of Oxford, and McGill, Shanghai Jiao Tong Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Sao Paulo, Drexel, Aarhus, Monash, and Oslo Universities.

Her research involves working closely, with industry, clinicians, and the public, to develop, evaluate and translate to clinical practice transformative innovation. Pre-commercialisation of her Academic research and patents is being explored with a number of UK and International companies. In her role, Helen will be exploring the development of effective personalised, scalable, rehabilitation innovations to address the growing global need.

Helen is co-director of the BRC and HRC Rehabilitation themes.

Interests:

Her main research focus is translation of individualised rehabilitation into clinical practice, informed and underpinned by basic research into mechanisms, with innovation of methodologies for the delivery and evaluation of interventional outcomes. Her ambition is to harness the very latest technologies to improve human well-being in health and disease, focussing on personalised treatments for disorders of movement and posture and assess and deliver these at scale. She uses a wide variety of technologies to monitor movement and posture, and associated body systems, often as part of large cohorts, supported by an excellent and eclectic multi-disciplinary team, internally and externally, nationally, and internationally. Her intention is to develop technologies which can be transferrable between diseases and systems and are affordable to ensure Global applicability. Helen’s main research themes can be summarised as: Exercise and Rehabilitation, Movement Science Mechanisms and Validating innovative Outcome measures.

She is currently funded the NIHR, EPSRC, Charities, Innovate, UKRI, NIH and CIHR

Qualifications:

• PhD
• M.Med.Sci
• MCSP