From post-doc to present day. Presentation for the NIHR CLAHRC National Conference Careers Day: for postdoc research careers in the allied health professions

1. Pip Logan
Professor in Rehabilitation Research
Occupational Therapist
May 2017
Pip.logan@nottingham.ac.uk
Organised curiosity and reflective
practitioners - the keys to a research rich
environment

2. Occupational Therapist - 1985
MPhil - 1994
PhD - 2004
Senior Clinical Academic Award - 2011
Professorship - 2012

3. Where do my research ideas come from………
• Clinical practice
• Clinical/research priorities
• Colleagues
• Other research projects
• Reading papers
• Attending conferences
• Funding opportunities
• Patient, professional, commercial groups

4. £500 College of Occupational Therapy
To investigate social service occupational therapy
£25,000 Stroke Association Fellowship
£1,450,000 NIHR grant
To evaluate rehabilitation for stroke patients
To complete M.Phil
£175,000 Department of Health Fellowship
To complete PhD
£1,850,000 NIHR grant
To evaluate a falls prevention intervention in care homes

5. Writing your own job description?
• One day per week funded by the NHS
• Two days funded by research grants
• Two days funded by the University
• One pay packet
• Two sets of mandatory training
• Two appraisals

6. What do I actually do?
• Implementing and applying evidence based practice in
stroke and falls prevention rehabilitation
• Speak to patients and families about rehabilitation
• Provide an expert clinical service for clinicians and
patients
• Work with clinical services to apply for research grants
and to run research studies
• Provide strategic leadership in research for the clinical
service

7. • Head of an academic division
• Supervise PhD, Masters and M. Phil students
• Member of the steering group for the EM clinical academic
pathway
• Director of a Centre for Doctoral Training for Clinical
Academic Careers
• Manage the research enquiries in the clinical services
• Review articles, grants, fellowships for Charites and the NIHR
• Work with the Stroke Association, Dunhill Medical Trust,
College of OT, CAPHR to promote rehabilitation research
• Occupational Therapy advocate for the NIHR
Academic

8. Projects
Falls
prevention in
Care homes
Facial palsy
Dementia and activity
Falls after stroke
Neuropsychological
rehabilitation for dressing
Chair based
exercise
Patella
femoral pain

9. Patient partnership

10. Thank you
Pip.logan@nottingham.ac.uk