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.
Caelan 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.
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.
Max Lewin: Real world measurement of lower limb biomechanics and their relationship to foot orthotic comfort.
The work for this PhD by publication comes from a KTP project with Scholl’s Wellness Company. This project aimed to identify real-world methods for measurement of lower limb biomechanics for collection of data relevant to orthotic design and testing. The published works include a systematic review to identify key biomechanics variables related to orthotic comfort, validation and sensitivity testing of a real-world measurement system, development of a comfort prediction method, and identifying underlying differences in biomechanics alongside meaningful changes in comfort. Supervisory Team : Dr Carina Price and Dr Richard Jones.