Anna is a physiotherapist who has worked clinically in a range of settings and joined the University of Leeds in 2018. Her expertise spans digital interventions, musculoskeletal conditions, inclusion of under-served groups in research, and complex intervention development. Anna completed her PhD in 2022 funded through a Health Education England / NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship. Her PhD involved using an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach to develop a new digital intervention, the ‘Virtual Knee School’, to provide pre-operative education and a prehabilitation exercise programme for patients awaiting total knee replacement. As part of the Assisted Healing and Rehabilitation theme, Anna and her colleagues are working with a company called getUBetter to implement and evaluate the Virtual Knee School.
Anna is particularly interested in approaches for making health and social care research more inclusive for people with lived experience of disability and is involved in a range of initiatives related to that. Anna is a core team member of the Leeds Unit for Complex Intervention Development (LUCID) and co-leads the LUCID seminar programme and communications.