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Katie Sheehan is a physiotherapists and health services researcher with experience from Ireland, Canada and the UK. She is the first physiotherapist to be awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship enabling her to capitalise on national data and a strong patient voice to inform a stratified approach to rehabilitation.
Katie has a strong track record in analysis of linked audit data to evaluate associations between access and delivery of rehabilitation and outcomes after hip fracture. Her teams work on early mobility and access to physiotherapy has informed quality improvement initiatives both nationally and internationally.
Katie is a strong advocate for early career researchers having led the establishment of a set of Toolkits to better enable managers to support the development and progression of early career researchers funded by UKRI Development Network and in partnership with Vitae. The Toolkits are available here:
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/doing-research/toolkits-to-enable-managers-to-support-the-development-and-progression-of-early-career-researchers
