Professor Michelle Briggs (UoM/MFT) and Professor Cheryl Lenney (Group Chief Nurse Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) have worked together with Professor Rachel Lennon and Professor Jenny Myers to extend the integrated academic training (IAT) currently available to medical and dental trainees to other professional groups and Dr Janet Deane, is the first to be appointed!

Dr Janet Deane is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Physiotherapy, which is a joint clinical academic post, based in the Division of Nursing Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Science and MFT. In addition to continuing her research in the field of low back pain, Janet will play a leading role in transforming the Allied Health Professional (AHP) research agenda and enhance AHP research capacity and capability. She is part of the MFT NMAHP Research Team and will play a key role in delivering the MFT NMAHP research strategy.

Janet was recently awarded a PhD in Clinical Biomechanics by Imperial College London, funded by a Versus Arthritis Clinical Doctoral Fellowship. This study aimed to understand the impact of Lumbar Disc Degeneration and recurrent low back pain by evaluating biomedical sub-classifiers for this condition using MRI, kinematic and EMG analysis methods.

Since completing her PhD Janet worked with the OATechplus Network, Cardiff University and Imperial College London as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to determine factors impacting upon arthritis research translation in order to develop an arthritis ‘impact toolkit’ for patients, researchers and clinicians.

Janet is looking forward to representing Physiotherapy and the AHPs on the IAT programme.

“It is an exciting time for AHPs”, says Janet. “I am grateful to the University of Manchester for thinking outside of the box and for creating a sense of parity for all healthcare professionals who undertake important research for patient benefit. I very much look forward to inspiring and leading the next generation of AHP researchers and to advance my research career within this collaborative community.”

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