Mrs Emma Cropper

Biography	I trained as a Physiotherapist on the pre registration MSc at the University of Teesside in 2003. Upon qualification I worked as a junior and then senior physiotherapist in Pennine Acute NHS trust. I left the NHS in 2008 to take up a senior role in private practice in the Greater Manchester region, specialising in a range of musculoskeletal conditions including sports injuries and low back pain. I joined Manchester Metropolitan University in 2008, and worked for 2 years in a lecturer-practitioner role, teaching on both the MSc and BSc Physiotherapy programmes, and in clinical practice in the Greater Manchester region. In 2009 I joined The University of Huddersfield as a full time senior lecturer in physiotherapy and became Course Leader of the programme in 2019. In 2023 I moved to Salford University as Deputy director of Allied and Public health; leading AHP teams including diagnostic radiography, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, prosthetics & orthotics and public health. I have worked in sport, supporting athletics in the CWGs in Glasgow 2014, and as Head physiotherapist for the England Touch association for over a decade, supporting the squads during domestic seasons and internationally in 2 World cups, 3 European Championships and a Home Nations competition. I am currently undertaking a PhD in injury surveillance and identification of injury risk factors in Touch rugby in England.

Biography

I trained as a Physiotherapist on the pre registration MSc at the University of Teesside in 2003.

Upon qualification I worked as a junior and then senior physiotherapist in Pennine Acute NHS trust. I left the NHS in 2008 to take up a senior role in private practice in the Greater Manchester region, specialising in a range of musculoskeletal conditions including sports injuries and low back pain.

I joined Manchester Metropolitan University in 2008, and worked for 2 years in a lecturer-practitioner role, teaching on both the MSc and BSc Physiotherapy programmes, and in clinical practice in the Greater Manchester region. In 2009 I joined The University of Huddersfield as a full time senior lecturer in physiotherapy and became Course Leader of the programme in 2019.

In 2023 I moved to Salford University as Deputy director of Allied and Public health; leading AHP teams including diagnostic radiography, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, prosthetics & orthotics and public health.

I have worked in sport, supporting athletics in the CWGs in Glasgow 2014, and as Head physiotherapist for the England Touch association for over a decade, supporting the squads during domestic seasons and internationally in 2 World cups, 3 European Championships and a Home Nations competition.

I am currently undertaking a PhD in injury surveillance and identification of injury risk factors in Touch rugby in England.