Prof. Helen Dawes is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation in the College of Medicine and Health. 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. In her role, Helen will be
exploring the development of effective personalised, scalable, rehabilitation
innovations to address the growing global need. Her main research focus is
the 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. Helen’s main
research themes can be summarised as: Exercise and Rehabilitation, Movement
Science Mechanisms, and Validating Innovative Outcome Measures.
