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Professor Fiona Jones

Professor of Rehabilitation Research
Fiona is Professor of Rehabilitation Research within the Population Health Research Institute.

Fiona is Professor of Rehabilitation Research within the Population Health Research Institute; professional background is a physiotherapist and she is also the lead for Bridges Self-Management.

Fiona has led multiple studies to evaluate self-management approaches within healthcare teams including stroke, acute brain injury and major trauma. In 2013 Fiona set up a social enterprise ‘Bridges Self-management*’, which has developed and evaluated an approach to personalised self-management support co-designed with people living with complex long-term conditions and used by more than 800 acute and community healthcare teams across the UK.

In 2014, Fiona led the first NIHR funded study to evaluate the use of Experience–Based Co-Design to explore ways to increase therapeutic activity in stroke units. Fiona is currently the Co-lead for a large NIHR funded Listen project (Long Covid Personalised Self-managemenT support- co-design and EvaluatioN) and has led on the co-design of the intervention working in partnership with people living with Long Covid- this trial completes in October 2023. Fiona is also a co-applicant on projects funded by HTA and NIHR Global Health to co-design and evaluate personalised self-management support for people living with joint pain, arthritis and stroke.

Fiona is Deputy lead for the Implementation Science theme which is part of the Applied Research Collaboration – South London, and is on the selection committee for the HEE/NIHR ICA Programme, Advanced Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (ACAF) she is also a member of the European Life After Stroke committee.

Fiona has expertise in mixed methods and participatory research, co-production, and improvement/implementation science. Her focus is on co-design and working in partnership with patients, families, and clinical teams to develop and implement self-management training, interventions and resources. She currently supervises four PhD students based in the UK and Sweden

In 2014 Fiona became a fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and in 2017 Fiona was awarded an MBE for services to rehabilitation.

*Bridges Self-Management is a social enterprise run in partnership with St Georges University of London and Kingston University www.bridgesselfmanagement.org.uk

Fiona is leading and collaborating on a number of research projects all related to personalised self-management support, current projects include:

  1. The Listen project (Long Covid Personalised Self-management support- co-design and EvaluatioN) – Co-chief Investigator one of 15 project in Long Covid funded by NIHRin July 2021 £19.6 million awarded to new research studies to help diagnose and treat long COVID | NIHR
    LISTEN - Long Covid - Research - Kingston University London
    To find out more about taking part in the trial: Home (listentrial.co.uk)
  2. East of England Academic Health Science Network. Evaluation of the sustainability and spread of Bridges self-management across stroke and neurological service. (Lead)
  3. SELMA: It should be me who decides what matters to me: adapting and evaluating Bridges Self-Management for a Swedish Stroke setting.(Co-applicant)
    SELMA: Self-management in stroke rehabilitation - Dalarna University (du.se)
  4. The NotFASTstudy; Understanding fatigue in stroke patients and examining strategies to manage it
    Identifying fatigue in stroke patients to improve their care - The University of Nottingham
  5. OnTrack Rehab: a digital system for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke
    Helix Centre | Digital Health Innovation Lab
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