Meriel Norris
Lecturer - Physiotherapy
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
About Meriel
Academic qualifications
PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCert (LTHE)
Profile
Qualified as a Physiotherapist in 1993 (Leeds) and worked in the NHS for several years specialising in neurology and specifically stroke rehabilitation. Last clinical post held was as stroke clinical specialist at St Mary’s hospital, London. Also worked for a number of years in India and Indonesia in both disaster and development projects related to disability and rehabilitation. Completed MSc in Medical Anthropology in 2002 (London) and PhD in 2009. My PhD topic brought together the fields of stroke, rehabilitation and anthropology by exploring the experience and health seeking behaviour following stroke in Aceh, Indonesia.
Responsibilities
Committee responsibilities
- Administrative responsibilities (e.g. programme/module leader, library rep etc):
- Module leader Research Proposal
- Academic skills liaison
Admin responsibilities
- Module leader Research Proposal
- Academic skills liaison
Other responsibilities
- Co-ordinator Centre for Research in Rehabilitation (CRR)
- Reviewer School Ethics Committee
Teaching responsibilities
BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy
- Module Leader - Research Proposal,
- Teach – Anatomy, Neurology, Research Methods, Research Proposal
- Supervisor Research Proposals
- Clinical visitor
- Personal tutor
MSc Neurorehabilitation
- Lecturer- Research Methods, Project proposal, Clinical Applications
- Supervisor MSc Dissertations
- Personal tutor
Teaching / Supervision
Teaching interest
Neurology, rehabilitation and research
Other responsibilities
- Academic skills liaison
- Co-ordinator Centre for Research in Rehabilitation (CRR)
Research
Research interests
Main research interests are in stroke and neurology more generally. This includes the subjective experience, rehabilitation, and cultural influences on the therapeutic relationship. Research is based both in the UK and internationally.
Research centres
Research projects and grants
- The use of a self management approach in the long term rehabilitation of stroke survivors from ethnic minority groups: perceptions of neuro-therapists - £15K (ongoing).
- Evaluating Physical Training after Stroke in a Leisure Centre setting - £12K (ongoing): London Borough of Hillingdon (National Stroke Strategy)
- Experience of participation in a post stroke community functional exercise programme - £1K (ongoing)
- Brunel University Research Seminar Series Award £2,500 (ongoing)
- Stroke understanding, experience and health seeking behaviour in Central Aceh. PhD research (Completed)
External
Membership and affiliation
- Member Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (MCSP)
- Health Professions Council (HPC)
- Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology (immediate past national Chair)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Professional activities or recognition
- Reviewer for Physiotherapy Research International
- External Reviewer MSc Rehabilitation, St Georges University.
Conferences
Stroke experience in Central Aceh, Indonesia: what is the effect of age?
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British Society for Gerontology, Brunel University, 2010.
Stroke 'services' in rural Aceh, Indonesia: what are they and why are they sought?
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Combined Meeting of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference Against Stroke and 20th Stroke Society of Australasia, Cairns, Australia, 06 Sep 2009 - 09 Sep 2009. Abstract published in International Journal of Stroke. World Stroke Association, Malaysia. 4: 1 pages. Sep 2009
Cultural understandings of stroke, its sequelae and health seeking behaviour in rural Indonesia
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Transitions Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 2007
Other external activities
Reviewer for Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party for the preparation of National clinical guidelines for stroke.
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2012) Norris, M., Jones, F. and Riazi, A., Self-managment after stroke:time for some more questions?, Disability and Rehabilitation
(2012) Norris, M., Allotey, P. and Barrett, G., 'It burdens me': The impact of stroke in central Aceh, Indonesia, Sociology of Health and Illness: a journal of medical sociology 34 (6) : 826- 840
(2011) Norris, M., Allotey, P. and Barrett, G., Non-biomedical stroke practitioners in Aceh, International Journal of Stroke 6 (2) : 152- 154
(2010) Norris, M., Allotey, P. and Barrett, G., "I feel like half my body is clogged up": Lay modles of stroke in Central Aceh, Indonesia, Social Science and Medicine 71 (9) : 1576- 1583
(Accepted) Norris, M. and Kilbride, C., From dictatorship to a reluctant democracy: stroke therapists talking about self-management, Disability and Rehabilitation
