SPAHC Research Festival 2021

Strategic Partnerships in Allied Health with Consumers and Communities: Between & Beyond

Co-hosted by the Department of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living (RAIL) Research Centre

On Thursday 25^th November the School of Primary and Allied Health Care held their annual research festival via Zoom.

The festival activities included:

Departmental and Centre research showcase
Early Career Researcher (ECR) and Higher Degree Research (HDR) student poster presentations
Interactive workshop sessions
Poster awards
Keynote speaker

The event was a great success due to the involvement and engagement of staff and students from across all areas of the School.

A detailed program can be downloaded here.

Recordings of the event can be viewed here:

2021 SPAHC Poster Presentations

Early Career Researchers (ECR) and Higher Degree Research (HDR) students participated in the School Poster Presentation competition.

The 2021 Poster Presentation winners were:

Higher Degree Research student – Joint award winners

Yulisna Sari (RAIL) - Current physiotherapy practice on delivery treatments for older people with dementia in Indonesia: A cross-sectional study

and

Jack Donne (SPAHC) - Two-point discrimination responses in children with idiopathic toe walking; a feasibility fMRI study

Early Career Researcher –

Ben Meadley (Paramedicine) - The physiological demands of helicopter winch rescue in water and over land

Baraa Alsulaimani (Physiotherapy, HDR student)	Evidence for improvement in measures of peripheral but not central sensitization following physical therapy interventions for tendinopathy. A systematic review
Linda Barclay (Occupational Therapy, ECR)	Investigating the challenges and benefits of engaging in peer support via videoconferencing for people with spinal cord injury
Jack Donne (SPAHC, HDR student)	Two-point discrimination responses in children with idiopathic toe walking; a feasibility fMRI study
Brian Haskins (Paramedicine, ECR and HDR student)	Cardiac arrests in general practice clinics or witnessed by emergency medical services: a 20-year retrospective study Long-term functional and quality-of-life outcomes of OHCA survivors stratified by shock provider Long-term functional and quality-of-life outcomes of OHCA survivors stratified by shock provider
Ben Meadley (Paramedicine, ECR)	The physiological demands of helicopter winch rescue in water and over land
Alexander Olaussen (Paramedicine, ECR and HDR student)	Paramedic streaming upon arrival in emergency department: A prospective study
Yulisna Sari (RAIL, HDR student)	Current physiotherapy practice on delivery treatments for older people with dementia in Indonesia: A cross-sectional study
Eloise Thomas (Paramedicine, Master of Specialist Paramedic Practice student)	Can online Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automatic External Defibrillation (AED) training improve participant knowledge and willingness to intervene in an Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)?
Patrick Vallance (Physiotherapy, HDR student)	Modulation of pain is altered in males with unilateral insertional Achilles tendinopathy