Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Clinical Gait Analysis and Gait Rehabilitation
A collaboration between:
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Clinical Research Training Fellowship Scheme
Clinical Research Training Fellowships are offered by the Gait CCRE to clinicians who want to learn how to do clinical research.
The scheme offers an opportunity for clinicians to take time out from clinical responsibilities to work on small research projects under guidance from senior researchers within the Gait CCRE. Clinicians receive up to $6000 to support their research project, which can be used for any purpose but is most often used to pay for the clinician’s own time. In many cases this can be used as leverage to get a matching contribution from the clinician’s employer.
From surgeons to biomedical engineers, the fellowships also build expertise within the Gait CCRE.
Our Fellows
- Frances Huxham (physiotherapist) - to allow completion of PhD looking at turning in people with Parkinson disease
- Sanjay Raghav (neurologist) – to study step variability leading up to and during planned stopping in Parkinson gait
- Pam Fok (physiotherapist) – to prepare ethics submission for a project looking at dual task interference during gait in Parkinson disease. Pam has subsequently gone on to register for a PhD
- Rachel Ward (biomedical engineer) – to complete a literature review of kinematic constraints of the joints in the lower limb (accepted for presentation in Amsterdam in September 2006)
- Melanie Farlie (physiotherapist) – to investigate the effects of nutrition, care and functional progressive resistance exercises on mobility in older adults living in residential aged care