Current Research Projects
The ScaleUp4Rehab project (with 13 European partners)
Lead Partner: Dr , Sint Maartens Kliniek Nijmegen, Netherlands.
UCC Lead: Prof. .
This project is funded by 鈧�10.78 million (total budget). This project aims to scale up the use of VR in rehabilitation across Europe. The project consists of 3 WPs. WP1 will develop and build a virtual rehabilitation clinic. WP2 consists of a series of pilot studies, conducted across Europe, exploring the feasibility of using the virtual clinic to deliver rehabilitation interventions in different conditions. WP 3 (UCC leads) focuses on building capacity for the use of VR among students and clinicians. This WP includes implementing VR into the physiotherapy curriculum.
The NET-RMDs research group: Networks of Fatigue and Pain in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Lead Partner: Dr Fernando Est茅vez-L贸pez (PI), 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Almer铆a and Harvard 深夜亚洲福利久久
UCC Lead: Prof. .
This project is a partnership with colleagues in Harvard 深夜亚洲福利久久, USA, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Granada Spain, Utrecht 深夜亚洲福利久久, the Netherlands, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Coimbra, Portugal and Ulster 深夜亚洲福利久久, UK. People with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases have been surveyed across five countries (n=2547) to explore the impact of pain and fatigue in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases. The study was funded by the European League Against Rheumatism (to FE-L).
Falls Management Exercise Programme: Improving Reach, Effectiveness, VaLue and SustAiNability in IrelanD. Case Studies for Learning (acronym: FaME Ireland)
Lead Researcher:
Lead Co-investigators: Prof , GCU; Prof , RCSI and Dr , RCSI
This project is a partnership with colleagues in Harvard 深夜亚洲福利久久, USA, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Granada Spain, Utrecht 深夜亚洲福利久久, the Netherlands, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Coimbra, Portugal and Ulster 深夜亚洲福利久久, UK. People with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases have been surveyed across five countries (n=2547) to explore the impact of pain and fatigue in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases. The study was funded by the European League Against Rheumatism (to FE-L).
PD-Life : All -Island Parkinson's Disease Research Hub
Lead Researcher: Prof , Head of the Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine
Lead Co-investigator: Dr , Senior Lecturer in Discipline of Physiotherapy
Led by Prof Suzanne Timmons, UCC and Dr Miihalis Doumas, QUB, PD鈥慙ife is the first ever all鈥慽sland Parkinson鈥檚 disease research hub, with the core aim to improve wellbeing and quality of life for people living with Parkinson鈥檚 across the island. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration across 5 universities (UCC, QUB, TCD, UL, UU), Parkinson's Ireland and Parkinson's UK (NI). The embedded collaborative research projects align with the Parkinson's Ireland research priorities, exercise, mental health, stigma, gender, culture, with wearable technologies. Through 8 work packages, the projects will support 9 PhD, 1 MSc and 7 postdoctoral researchers, working together across shared thematic projects and will develop research-training toolkits to support future researchers.
Dr Ruth McCullagh is the Lead of the Exercise and Dance Work package. The work package will support 2 postdoctoral and 2 PhD researchers to explore the effects and acceptability of dance, and exercise with / without motivational techniques. A protocol for a definitive trial comparing dance, exercise and exercise-motivation, along with toolkits and videos to support dance instructors will be generated from the work package.
This four-year project is funded by the North-South Research Programme Award (4 million).
Internal PhD Projects
Technology and prehabilitation in total knee arthroplasty
PhD Candidate:
Supervisor: Prof. ,
Co-supervisors: Prof. (Teesside 深夜亚洲福利久久), Dr (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Dublin), Mr (School of Computer Science and Information Technology UCC), Prof. May Cleary (School of Medicine UCC/深夜亚洲福利久久 Hospital Waterford)
The effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions on adults living with Long COVID
PhD Candidate:
Supervisor: Prof.
Co-supervisors: Dr (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Dublin), Prof. (Teesside 深夜亚洲福利久久, UK), Mr (School of Computer Science and Information Technology UCC), Dr Deepak Ravindran (Central Reading Primary Care Network, UK).
Behaviour change interventions for community-based physical activity engagement in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
PhD Candidate:
Supervisor: Prof.
Co-supervisors: Dr (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Dublin), Prof. Terry O鈥機onnor (School of Medicine UCC/Mercy Hospital Cork), Prof , (Catholic 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Leuven, Belgium)
The design, development and evaluation of dementia training for physiotherapists
PhD candidate:
Supervisor: Prof.
Co-supervisors: Prof. (School of Medicine UCC), Dr (School of Medicine UCC/Mercy Hospital, Cork), Dr (La Trobe 深夜亚洲福利久久, Australia)
Virtual Reality in the management of shoulder pain
PhD candidate:
Supervisor: Prof.
Co-supervisors: Prof. Jeremy Lewis (Central London Community Healthcare NHS), Dr (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Limerick)
Effectiveness of social prescribing in the management of community dwelling adults with musculoskeletal pain
PhD Candidate:
Supervisor: Prof.
Co-supervisor: Dr (School of Public Health UCC), Prof. (City St George鈥檚 深夜亚洲福利久久 of London, UK)
Self-management of shoulder pain
PhD candidate:
Supervisor: Prof.
Co supervisors: Prof. (UCD), Prof. (Curtin 深夜亚洲福利久久), Dr (Salford 深夜亚洲福利久久), Prof. (Keele 深夜亚洲福利久久)
Flow in virtual reality: impact on rehabilitation outcomes
PhD Candidate: Eoghan O鈥橰iain
Supervisor: Prof.
Co supervisors: (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Dublin), Mr (School of Computer Science and Information Technology UCC), (Teesside 深夜亚洲福利久久, UK)
External PhD Projects
Epidemiology and moderators of injury in Gaelic football
PhD Candidate: Thomas Dekker
Supervisor: (Technological 深夜亚洲福利久久 Dublin)
Co supervisors: Dr (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Limerick), Prof (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Dublin).
Exploring patients鈥� journey across the total knee arthroplasty care pathway: The influence of different health service systems
PhD Candidate: Ammar Suhail
Supervisor: Dr (Ulster 深夜亚洲福利久久, UK)
Co supervisors: Professor (Ulster 深夜亚洲福利久久, UK), Dr (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Birmingham), Dr (Thomas Jefferson 深夜亚洲福利久久), Prof
Predictors of Surgical Outcomes in Knee Osteoarthritis
PhD Candidate: Una McConville
Supervisor: Dr (Ulster 深夜亚洲福利久久, UK)
Co supervisors: Prof. (Ulster 深夜亚洲福利久久), Dr (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Birmingham), Prof.