After completing my undergraduate degree in the Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham in 2001, I spent one year working for a financial institution. Having decided that life as a banker was not for me, I returned to the University of Birmingham to complete my PhD. Here I developed an interest in eye tracking and motion capture technology, studying interactions between gaze behaviour and gait parameters in older adults. I then joined the School of Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast where I developed an interested in Parkinson’s disease and the development of tools for assisting mobility and preventing falls. My work in creating auditory cues for enhancing gait in Parkinson’s disease patients led to an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Helen Bronte-Stuart at Stanford University. I joined Brunel University London in 2013 as a Research Fellow and in 2015 I became a Lecturer in Rehabilitation Psychology in the Department of Clinical Sciences.

I am interested in how people perceive and retain information from the environment and use it to guide movement. In particular, I am interested in how these processes are influenced by increased age and/or neurological disease. My main interests lie in the design of diagnostic and training tools that could be used in rehabilitation programmes (such as exergames). My current work, based largely on eye-tracking studies, focuses on how anxiety (or fear of falling in older adults) can alter psychological and motor processes involved in the control of posture and gait.