The driving force behind our research programme is the desire to make interventions for people with acquired brain injury even better, allowing many more people to resume the activities they did before they had a stroke.

Our research activity is focused on the identification, development and evaluation of therapies to enhance the normal everyday lives of people who have sustained what is known as Acquired Brain Injury. Participants in our studies may have a variety of diagnoses including; stroke, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Our studies are designed to contribute to knowledge of:

• how the nervous system changes in response to specific therapies
• how different people respond to the same therapy so that we can improve the ability to decide which therapies are most suitable for which people
• how therapy can be delivered most effectively to benefit people with acquired brain injury

To do this we combine clinical, neurophysiological and biomechanical investigations as appropriate for individual studies. More details can be found in our Current Projects, as well as in our Research Archive. Please also see NNUK Stroke Unit.

Principal Investigator:

Professor Valerie Pomeroy PhD, BA, GradDipPhys, FCSP

Collaborators

Professor Jean Claude Baron
Professor Philip Rowe
Dr Susan Hunter
Dr Catherine Lang
Dr Andrew Kerr
Professor Duncan Turner
Professor Jane Burridge
Dr Jane Cross
Esther Cockram
Ingrid Watmough
Martin Watson
Dr Marie-Luce O’Driscoll
Dr Ruth Turk
Cathy Sackley

   General enquiries:

   Pel Fordham
   PA to Professor Valerie Pomeroy
   Faculty of Medicine and Health
   University of East Anglia
   Norwich 
   NR4 7TJ
   Tel. +44 (0)1603 591438
   Email: p.fordham@uea.ac.uk