Dr Sibylle Thies

Can objective stability assessment of walking aid use outside the clinic facilitate stroke rehabilitation?”
2024

Description NRC Rehabilitation Technologies Conference

Projects Can objective stability assessment of walking aid use outside the clinic facilitate stroke rehabilitation?

Description	NRC Rehabilitation Technologies Conference
Projects	Can objective stability assessment of walking aid use outside the clinic facilitate stroke rehabilitation?

EU Falls Festival 2024 - The Great Debate
2024

Recognition Type Awards and prizes (external)

Description Winner of 'The Great Debate: Do walking aids prevent or increase the risk of falls?' (Sibylle Thies (UK) arguing that walking aids are ineffective as an intervention vs Vasiliki Sakellari (GR) presenting on their effectiveness). https://eufallsfest2024.eu/programme/#day2

Recognition Type	Awards and prizes (external)
Description	Winner of 'The Great Debate: Do walking aids prevent or increase the risk of falls?' (Sibylle Thies (UK) arguing that walking aids are ineffective as an intervention vs Vasiliki Sakellari (GR) presenting on their effectiveness). https://eufallsfest2024.eu/programme/#day2

Patent GB2613198
2024

Recognition Type Awards and prizes (external)

Description Patent GB2613198 - “Walking frame with self-aligning wheels” (Proprietor: Nottingham Rehab Limited, aka NRS Healthcare): listed as inventor on the UK patent application to protect KTP design innovations. See:
https://patents.google.com/patent/GB2613198A/en

Testimony from NRS: “The experience working with the academic team at the University has been exceptional. Their depth of knowledge and dedication to this project has been beyond my expectations…. I have worked in the rehabilitation industry for more than 20 years, and designed many class-leading products, but this is the first time I have participated in a project where we have been able to completely re-think the way a piece of equipment works and make a transformative change that could benefit the lives of many thousands of users.” (NRS, Susan Bevan, Clinical Excellence Technical Lead, KTP Report 2023)

Affiliated Organisations Nottingham Rehab Limited
The University of Salford

Recognition Type	Awards and prizes (external)
Description	Patent GB2613198 - “Walking frame with self-aligning wheels” (Proprietor: Nottingham Rehab Limited, aka NRS Healthcare): listed as inventor on the UK patent application to protect KTP design innovations. See: https://patents.google.com/patent/GB2613198A/en Testimony from NRS: “The experience working with the academic team at the University has been exceptional. Their depth of knowledge and dedication to this project has been beyond my expectations…. I have worked in the rehabilitation industry for more than 20 years, and designed many class-leading products, but this is the first time I have participated in a project where we have been able to completely re-think the way a piece of equipment works and make a transformative change that could benefit the lives of many thousands of users.” (NRS, Susan Bevan, Clinical Excellence Technical Lead, KTP Report 2023)
Affiliated Organisations	Nottingham Rehab Limited The University of Salford

Supervisor of the year nominee, 1 of 5 rated as “highly commended” demonstrating excellent supervision.
2024

Recognition Type Awards and prizes (internal)

Recognition Type	Awards and prizes (internal)

International Society of Biomechanics 3D Analysis of Human Movement Technical Group
2017 - 2022

Recognition Type Committee/board/panel member or chair (external)

Recognition Type	Committee/board/panel member or chair (external)

Impact Co-Lead
2023 - 2026

Recognition Type Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)

Description Co-Lead to support management of impact, working alongside Professor Neal Hazel (Impact lead for the School of health & Society).

Recognition Type	Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)
Description	Co-Lead to support management of impact, working alongside Professor Neal Hazel (Impact lead for the School of health & Society).

ROME panel member
2023

Recognition Type Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)

Description Reviewing and grading papers for REF.

Recognition Type	Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)
Description	Reviewing and grading papers for REF.

Lead of the Research Governance Working Group
2021 - 2025

Recognition Type Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)

Description Lead of the Research Governance Working Group at the University of Salford. The Research Governance Working Group is responsible for providing advice and expert guidance to Research, Enterprise, and Innovation Committee and Academic Ethics and Research Integrity Committee on policies, practices and legislation relating to research governance, integrity and ethics to ensure researchers working within or on behalf of the University, develop and maintain good research practice.

Recognition Type	Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)
Description	Lead of the Research Governance Working Group at the University of Salford. The Research Governance Working Group is responsible for providing advice and expert guidance to Research, Enterprise, and Innovation Committee and Academic Ethics and Research Integrity Committee on policies, practices and legislation relating to research governance, integrity and ethics to ensure researchers working within or on behalf of the University, develop and maintain good research practice.

Ethics committee member
2020

Recognition Type Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)

Description Ethics committee member, regularly reviewing Ethics applications.

Recognition Type	Committee/board/panel member or chair (internal)
Description	Ethics committee member, regularly reviewing Ethics applications.

International Society of Biomechanics 3D Analysis of Human Movement Symposium
2022

Recognition Type Conference organisation

Description Reviewed abstracts, chaired a session, and presented.

Recognition Type	Conference organisation
Description	Reviewed abstracts, chaired a session, and presented.

NRS Healthcare (Nottingham Rehab Ltd) Consultancy
2023 - 2024

Recognition Type Consultancy

Description Provision of consultancy to NRS Healthcare (aka Nottingham Rehab Ltd) to facilitate bringing the KTP-developed walking frame to market, 2023-24 (£10,000). It is an Enterprise project and hence cannot be linked as it is not a research project.

Affiliated Organisations Nottingham Rehab Limited

Recognition Type	Consultancy
Description	Provision of consultancy to NRS Healthcare (aka Nottingham Rehab Ltd) to facilitate bringing the KTP-developed walking frame to market, 2023-24 (£10,000). It is an Enterprise project and hence cannot be linked as it is not a research project.
Affiliated Organisations	Nottingham Rehab Limited

Provision of consultancy to Maddison Ltd.
2022

Recognition Type Consultancy

Description Provision of consultancy to Maddison Ltd., providing a product evaluation for a novel outdoor walker, 2022 (£800). Set up as an Enterprise project it cannot be linked because it is not listed under research projects.

Recognition Type	Consultancy
Description	Provision of consultancy to Maddison Ltd., providing a product evaluation for a novel outdoor walker, 2022 (£800). Set up as an Enterprise project it cannot be linked because it is not listed under research projects.

PhD Examiner for student from Liverpool University
2022

Recognition Type External examining and assessing

Description PhD examiner for student Nicholas Thomas from Liverpool University, “Investigating human locomotion outside the laboratory”, 2022.

Recognition Type	External examining and assessing
Description	PhD examiner for student Nicholas Thomas from Liverpool University, “Investigating human locomotion outside the laboratory”, 2022.

QR funding
2023

Recognition Type Internal funding award

Description Supporting the NHS Commitment to Planetary Health in a period of Austerity? Re-using, Recycling and Assistive Devices currently lost in the system. QR £5,792.

Recognition Type	Internal funding award
Description	Supporting the NHS Commitment to Planetary Health in a period of Austerity? Re-using, Recycling and Assistive Devices currently lost in the system. QR £5,792.

HEIF Funding
2022 - 2023

Recognition Type Internal funding award

Description Enhancing the commercial value of a novel biomechanics-informed walking frame: does a 2nd set of hand grips increase stability, mobility and independence when transferring from/to a chair? HEIF £26,344

Recognition Type	Internal funding award
Description	Enhancing the commercial value of a novel biomechanics-informed walking frame: does a 2nd set of hand grips increase stability, mobility and independence when transferring from/to a chair? HEIF £26,344

TIDAL Network+ (EPSRC)
2023

Recognition Type Peer reviewer for funding body

Description Reviewed for the TIDAL Network+ (EPSRC).

Recognition Type	Peer reviewer for funding body
Description	Reviewed for the TIDAL Network+ (EPSRC).

Swiss National Science Foundation
2022

Recognition Type Peer reviewer for funding body

Description Reviewed grant for the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Recognition Type	Peer reviewer for funding body
Description	Reviewed grant for the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Dunhill Medical Trust
2021

Recognition Type Peer reviewer for funding body

Description Reviewed grant application for Dunhill Medical Trust.

Recognition Type	Peer reviewer for funding body
Description	Reviewed grant application for Dunhill Medical Trust.

Gait & Posture
2024

Recognition Type Peer reviewer for journal/other publication venue

Description Reviewed manuscript for Gait & Posture.

Recognition Type	Peer reviewer for journal/other publication venue
Description	Reviewed manuscript for Gait & Posture.

Heliyon
2024

Recognition Type Peer reviewer for journal/other publication venue

Description Reviewed manuscript for Heliyon.

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