2024-2026 Research Award Winners

Martin Rabey - International Association for the Study of Pain 2026 World Congress on Pain in Bangkok, Thailand from 26-30th October 2026

Karl Baraks - research projects at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS 2026), held at P&J Live in Aberdeen from 29 April 2026

Closing date 31 May 2026

Closing date 31 May 2026

Closing date 31 May 2026

Closing date 30/9/2026

Closing date 31/12/2026 - MACP MSc course leads to nominate 1 winner per HEI

Konstantina Savvoulidou - European Pain Federation (EFIC) 2025,  April 24-26 in Lyon, France - report and photos here

Dan Nicholls - British Elbow & Shoulder Society Annual conference Brighton, June 2025 - podium presentation

No successful applicants

Paul MacDonald - Developing a healthcare professional tool to assess UK physiotherapists' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about adults with obesity. Read Paul's report and view his poster.

Colette Ridehalgh - Combined Physiotherapy interventions for people with lumbosacral radicular pain: exploring the fidelity of a best practice programme in London NHS Trusts

Vasileios Georgopoulos - To understand and improve the use of analgesic medicines in people with ongoing musculoskeletal pain (OMP) through a realist approach. It is structured around two sequential work packages - completing in 2027

Dylan Morrissey - What factors determine how often people with persistent musculoskeletal conditions need to see a physiotherapist? A mixed methods study

Oliver Sell - University of Herts
Rotator Cuff-Related Shoulder Pain: A survey exploring the current use of education by UK HCPC-registered physiotherapists.

Scott Simpson - Sheffield Hallam
How do researchers include and exclude participants when assessing exercise therapy in greater trochanteric pain syndrome? A Systematic Review.

March:

Hazel Rudder - PhD modules- report here

Yiduo Wang - IFOMPT 2024 - report here

September:

Natahsa Maher - report here - BESS 2025 Scientific Conference

Michail Arvanitidis - presenting at ISEK Conference, Japan - report here

Matthew Low - IFOMPT Conference

Jane Simmonds - use validated Spider questionnaire to complete a cluster analysis of the symptom profiles in people diagnosed with HSD/hEDS

Professor Lisa Roberts
The use of minimising language in musculoskeletal consultations - report

Caroline Alexander
Evangelos Almpanidis
Evdokia Billis
Laura Eccott - view Laura's report here
William Gregory
Gethin Lynch
Christopher McCarthy - report
Martin Rabey
Colette Ridehalgh
Pauline Kuithan - report

No successful applicants

Paul Riddle - University of Hertfordshire

Devon Amos - QMUL

Adwin See - UCL

Morten Ekornsaether - University of Brighton