Interdisciplinary Research and Practice Divisional Lead, University of Essex. Especially keen to work with anyone interested in acquired brain injury community and social care. Andrew has worked in research and clinical rehabilitation since 1990, the year I qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist (North East London Polytechnic, & London Hospital School of Physiotherapy). I completed a PhD in Neuropsychology in 1997 (University of Birmingham). I led NHS community rehab services including the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (Ely, UK) between 2002-19. I am interested in wide range of topics and open to offering post-graduate supervision including: 1) rehabilitation service innovation and evaluation 2) holistic neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation 3) assistive technology and exer-gaming 4) social media in rehabilitation 5) specific aspects of neuropsychology - executive functions, dyspraxia, attention impairments and interactions with movement disorders 6) patient reported outcome measures ("PROMS") analysis techniques including Rasch measurement models 7) single subject experimental designs.
I benefit from support from the National Institute of Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) and I contribute to our local and national NIHR infrastructure in several ways: In 2025 we will be launching our Brain Injury Social Care Network, an NIHR Incubator, part of the NIHR Academy With the BRAIN HRC [https://brainhrc.org/] I am working on the fellowship programmes and neuropsychology research topics My work as Director of NIHR Research Design Service for East of England finished March 2024 - the new Support Service for researchers is now open and I encourage people to apply for research support via [https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/support/research-support-service/] I have also enjoyed support from the NIHR ARC for the East of England [ https://arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/ ] April 2022 saw the launch of our two year "Heads Together" Brain Injury and Social Work research study - also funded by NIHR. I am also President of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology [https://www.acpin.net/] Honorary Treasurer and a Past-president of The Society for Research in Rehabilitation [https://www.srr.org.uk/] and Chair of the United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum [https://ukabif.org.uk/]. see LinkedIn, x.com @Prof_A_Bateman and @andrewbateman.bsky.social for news