James Shaw

Academic qualifications

MPT (Master of Physical Therapy), PhD (Health and Rehabilitation Sciences)

Profile

I am currently a visiting postdoctoral fellow in Health and Social Care at Brunel University, working on a Canadian Institute of Health Research funded fellowship study titled “Inter-organizational collaboration for patient transitions: The interrelation between policy and practice in England and Canada”. I am completing this study in collaboration with Professor Christina Victor (Brunel University), Dr. Wendy Martin (Brunel University), and Dr. Pia Kontos (Toronto Rehabilitation Institute). I graduated with a pre-licensure Master of Physical Therapy in Autumn 2010, and recently completed my PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in Autumn 2012 at Western University in Ontario, Canada. My doctoral research involved a phenomenological study of older peoples’ experience of anticipating falling and fall-related injuries, as well as community outreach health care providers’ experience of enacting fall prevention. This work fostered my interest in qualitative health services research for improving health care and health policy, and led to the development of my postdoctoral work on patient transitions.

Committee responsibilities

Member of the Brunel Institute for Aging Studies

Member of the Center for Biomedicine and Society

Research interests

I have many research and professional interests, which fall into three main categories: (1) Gerontology – I am interested in aging and older people, and particularly the design and delivery of health and social care for older people; (2) Health Policy and Health Services – I am interested in the way policy and practice are related in health and social care, and particularly in relation to the delivery of physiotherapy care; (3) Theory and Methodology – I am interested in the philosophical and theoretical assumptions that inform the ways in which researchers and health care practitioners engage in their crafts.

Research centres

• Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies (BIAS)
• Centre for Biomedicine and Society (CBAS)

Other external activities

Fellow of the Health Care, Technology, and Place program (University of Toronto)

Postdoctoral Fellow at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute