Foot Health and Footwear PGRs

Andrew Hammocks: The quantification of real-world movement in children to inform footwear design.

Industry funded PhD with On Running to quantify the movement of children in real-world activities. The data will be used to inform footwear design for children. Supervisory team: Dr Carina Price and Dr Paul Jones.

Calean Scott: Co-designing and delivering a package to support the global use of plantar pressure in referral and determining effectiveness of orthotics for the diabetic foot. 

Industry funded PhD project with XSENSOR pressure insole company within the Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics. To co-design and deliver a package to support the global use of plantar pressure in clinical settings for referral and determining effectiveness of orthotics for the diabetic foot.  Supervisory team: Dr Carina Price and Dr Dan Parker (External Advisor: Dr Lindsey Cherry, Southampton).

Abdulaziz Alkanderi: The role of footwear for amputees with lower limb prosthetics.

Explore, through mixed-methods, the fit for purpose of footwear for people with lower limb amputations across different environments and cultures. Supervisory team: Dr Carina Price and Prof Rich Jones.

Jen Andrews: Non-invasive methods of quantifying the composition of the plantar epidermis: the interpretation of data in health, ageing and disease.

Industry funded PhD project with Scholl within the Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics. Using non invasive, methods to quantify and explore skin hydration of various populations and compare these commercially available and accessible measures to a novel gold-standard data set. Supervisory team: Dr Farina Hashmi and Dr Carina Price.

Zain Shahid: Development of an Industrial Test Platform for Foot Health Device and Footwear Testing.

Industry funded PhD project with Scholl within the Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics. This work seeks to develop improved pathway for development of novel orthotic devices by testing under conditions more akin to human gait. Supervisory team: Dr Dan Parker and Dr Guowu Wei.

Hayley Edginton: Enhanced assessment of the high risk foot: Ultrasound assessment for objective measurement of change in high-risk foot.

This work will identify the clinical needs and requirements of an enhanced assessment and develop and evaluate training requirements for Podiatrists to deliver this assessment. Supervisory team: Dr Dan Parker and Dr Veronica Newton.