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Richard Stephenson Professor Richard Stephenson
Role Qualifications & background Richard Stephenson, PhD, MSc, BA, MCSP Richard graduated from Bradford Royal Hospital’s School of Physiotherapy in 1982, going on to a successful clinical career initially in neurological rehabilitation before moving into mental health. He established an in-patient and community based mental health physiotherapy service in Calderdale before his interest in research and education brought him to a lectureship in1989. During the past 20 years Richard has designed and implemented education programmes at all levels, with a particular focus on the development of interprofessional and interdisciplinary learning and working. He has represented his professional body extensively in curriculum development and quality assurance, and has represented the wider agenda of the health professions through national bodies including his current role on the Executive Committee of the Council of Deans of Health. Richard’s research encompasses his passion for an understanding of the brain, including the conceptualisation and perception of pain, recovery of function post-neurological lesion, and therapeutic interventions in both chronic pain and movement disorders post-stroke. His research and publications also span curriculum development and clinical reasoning, and his PhD by publication brought these diverse streams of research together within a central thesis of complexity as a paradigm for physiotherapy. He reviews grant applications and papers for several bodies and journals. From 2003 – 2009 Richard was Head of the School of Allied Health Professions at the University of East Anglia leading the School through a period of significant growth in research, education and enterprise. As Associate Dean for NHS Liaison, he worked on behalf of the University to continue to cement long-term partnerships between the Faculty of Health and health and social care organisations across the region, and to promote the University’s role in workforce strategy and development. As Dean of the Faculty of Health and Pro-Vice Chancellor Richard is responsible for the academic leadership of the Faculty and sport and recreation across the University and is also the University’s representative on the HERDA-SW Health Committee and the Healthy Theme Group, Local Strategic Partnership Plymouth 2020.
Professional membership Professional Membership: MCSP (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy), HPC Registered Physiotherapist Roles on external bodies
Teaching interests Teaching, supervision and assessment In addition to the delivery of diverse curricula, I have been responsible for significant leadership of curriculum and team development through such posts as Undergraduate Director, Director of Post-graduate programmes, and through external examining and advisor roles (particularly within physiotherapy, but including shared inter-professional learning programmes). I have been responsible for the generation, implementation and management of several highly innovative professional courses, and the associated governance and enhancement of all issues relating to the quality and fitness for purpose of learning, teaching and assessment. I have led curricula reviews for UG and PG provision across the School and Faculty, including a radical revision of MSc Health Sciences and MSc Manipulative Physiotherapy. A particular feature of my experience is the specific development of inter-professional curricula: The undergraduate pre-registration programmes are shared programmes with 50% of the curriculum operating through joint modules; I developed the Faculty’s post-graduate taught programmes around an inter-professional core of modules, with the vast majority of optional units being inter-professional too; I was a founder member of the project team that established the Centre for Inter-Professional Practice at UEA, which now runs a pre-registration programme for over 750 students per annum including medicine, pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, all branches of Nursing, and Midwifery. However, I also have extensive (over 20 years) experience of undergraduate, post-graduate, pre-registration and post-registration education in the subject areas of: Anatomy; physiology; methods of enquiry; neurological rehabilitation; neuroscience; pain; mental health; professional development; interprofessional learning; clinical practice; research supervision. Throughout my career in education I have always received the highest student and peer feedback from my teaching with regard to delivery, content, knowledge and facilitation of the audience. Research interests Research degrees awarded to supervised students PhD supervision Previously successful candidates: Elizabeth Candy: A web-based survey of prevalence and lifestyle factors, with an RCT of seating intervention, on back pain intensity in 14-16 year-old students. 2008 (Part-Time). Martin Watson: PhD by Publication; An explication of motor recovery patterns following severe traumatic brain injury: an analysis of evidence, with potential relevance for physiotherapists. 2008. Lisa Taylor: The effects of a systematic occupational therapy treatment programme on visual field deficit. 2006 (Part-Time). Ali Ghanbari: The effects of previous bag carrying on spinal posture in young adults relating to pain, and dysfunction. 2005. Anne Daykin: A mixed methods study regarding physiotherapists’ pain beliefs and their influence on the therapeutic encounter. 2002 Cathy Daborn: The effect of a sustained upper limb neuroprovocation test on median nerve conduction and the role of neuroprovocation techniques in the management of carpal tunnel syndrome. 2001. Current candidates (working titles): Toby Smith: The Physiotherapy treatment of anterior knee pain. Completion date 2013 (Part-Time). Carol Payne: A pragmatic, single-blind, randomised control trial comparing subacromial corticosteroid injection with muscle balance re-education in the treatment of unilateral shoulder impingement syndrome. 2011. Grants & contracts Publications
Reports & invited lectures Conference abstracts: Published Candy EA, Stephenson R, Jerosch-Herold C, Shepstone L, Farewell D (2010) ‘The effects of a high density foam wedge on back pain intensity for a group of 97 14-16 year olds when used on school seating: a randomised controlled trial’ Journal of Joint and Bone Surgery – British Volume, 92B, issue suppl. 1, 235. Lumley C, Stephenson R, Swift L, Saville E, Jenner J (2010) ‘Are repeated long term outcome measures sustained following a Pain Management Programme?’ Clinical Rehabilitation, 24, 659-660. Ghanbari A, Stephenson R, Watson M (2004) ‘The association of different habits of bag carrying with pain experience among young university students: a preliminary study’. Isokinetics and Exercise Science, 12, 1. Stephenson R (1999) ‘Alexithymia and the (non)expression of emotion in illness’ British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 6, 7, 325. Stephenson R (1996) ‘Basic quantitative research: a users guide’ British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 3, 12, 669. Stephenson R (1995) ‘Alexithymia: Should Physiotherapists care?’ Physiotherapy, 81, 459.
Conference presentations: Peer reviewed international and national conferences Lumley C, Stephenson R, Swift L, Saville E, Jenner J (2009) ‘Are repeated long term outcome measures sustained following a Pain Management Programme?’ Irish Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, Croke Park Dublin, 14-15th May. Candy EA, Stephenson R, Jerosch-Herold C, Shepstone L, Farewell D (2008) ‘The effects of a high density foam wedge on back pain intensity for a group of 97 14-16 year olds when used on school seating: a randomised controlled trial’. Society for Back Pain Research, Keele, 6-7th November. Candy E, Stephenson R, Jerosch-Herold C (2007) ‘A web-based survey of 14-16 year olds: The relationships between back pain and lifestyle’. World Congress of Physical Therapy, Vancouver, Canada, 2-6th June. Candy E, Stephenson R, Jerosch-Herold C (2007) ‘The effects of a high density foam wedge on the intensity of back pain in a group of 97 14-16 year olds when used on normal school seating: A randomised controlled trial’. Physiotherapy Research Society Scientific Meeting, Cardiff, 28th March. D’Arcy M, Stephenson R, O’Keeffe D, Blake C (2006) ‘The effectiveness of Waddell’s non-organic signs in predicting an improvement in disability and quality of life following a multidisciplinary pain management programme’. The British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Harrogate, 24-27th April. Candy E, Stephenson R (2004) ‘The accessibility and viability of a website based questionnaire to assess the risk factors for adolescent back pain: A pilot study’. Alberta International Forum VII—Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain, Alberta, Canada, 7-9th October 2004. Ghanbari A, Stephenson R, Watson M (2004) ‘The association of different habits of bag carrying with pain experience among young university students: a preliminary study’. 3rd European Congress: Interdisciplinary Society for Clinical and Sports Application. 19-20 March, Freiburg, Germany. Daborn C, Stephenson R, Richardson B (2000) 'The effect of the ULTT on the conduction characteristics of the median nerve'. CSP Annual Congress, 'Expanding Horizons 2000', Birmingham, 21st October, 2000. Rhys A, Stephenson R (2000) 'The Pain Beliefs of Physiotherapists - A National Survey'. The 3rd Congress of the European Federation of IASP Chapters: Pain in Europe 3. 26-29 September, Nice. Rhys-Williams A, Stephenson R (2000) 'The Pain Beliefs of Physiotherapists and their Patients'. CSP Annual Congress, 'Expanding Horizons 2000', Birmingham, 21st October, 2000. Rhys-Williams A, Stephenson R (1999) 'The Pain Beliefs Questionnaire: A study involving healthy subjects'. International Association for the Study of Pain, 9th World Congress on Pain, August 22-27, 1999, Vienna, Austria. Stephenson R (1998) ‘The complexity of pain’. The 6th Neuropharmacology Conference - cortical plasticity (the representation of experience), 24-26 June, Berlin. Official satellite conference of the European Neuroscience Forum (27/6 - 1/7/98). Stephenson R, Royce J (1998) ‘The incidence of alexithymia in a Physiotherapy out-patient department’. East Anglian Board of CSP Conference, Norwich, 19.9.98. Stephenson R, Walker E (1998) ‘The analgesic effects of Interferential currents on cold-pressor pain in healthy subjects’. East Anglian Board of CSP Conference, Norwich, 19.9.98. Stephenson R (1995) ‘Alexithymia: Should Physiotherapists care?’ CSP Annual Conference, Scarborough, 27th September 1995. Johnson M, Stephenson R (1995) ‘The analgesic effects of Interferential currents on cold-induced pain in healthy subjects: A preliminary report.’ Pain Society Conference - Eastbourne, 5th-7th April 1995. Seminars / workshops presented to conferencesStephenson R (2007) ‘Challenges for HE in NHS workforce planning’ King’s Fund Forum, London 17th December, 2007. Stephenson R (1999) ‘Alexithymia and the (non)expression of emotion’. Norfolk Mental Health Care Trust and School of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, The 2nd Evidence Based Practice conference in Mental Health: Building on the evidence: changing times changing practice. Norwich, 15th-16th April 1999. Stephenson R (1998) ‘Multiprofessional MSc in Health Science: the experience from UEA. Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Interprofessional Education and Continuing Professional Development Conference. London, 1st April 1998. Stephenson R (1997) ‘Clinical Reasoning’. School of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Continuing Professional Development Conference. Norwich, 10th October 1997. Stephenson R (1996) ‘Basic quantitative research: a users guide’. Norfolk Mental Health Care Trust and School of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, National Conference on Evidence Based Practice in Mental Health. Norwich, 13th September 1996.Other academic activities
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