Professor of Rehabilitation Research
Advancing care through evidence & innovation.
Forty years defining the evidence base for complex rehabilitation — research mentoring, trial design, and clinical advisory across stroke, neurological and musculoskeletal recovery.
Services
Translating academic rigour into clinical impact through methodical design, careful enquiry, and patient mentorship.
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Doctoral and post-doctoral mentoring for clinical academics. Drawing on more than twenty-five completed PhD supervisions across rehabilitation, stroke and musculoskeletal research.
Grant & Trial Design
Methodological advisory on randomised controlled trials, feasibility studies and complex interventions — including NIHR, MRC and international fellowship proposals.
Clinical Advisory
Translation of evidence into practice: stroke, falls, care-home rehabilitation and guideline development with the Royal College of Physicians, NICE and Cochrane.
Global Health Advisory
Programme design and capacity building for non-communicable disease research in Sub-Saharan Africa, building on the NIHR Global Health stroke programme in Sierra Leone.
A career defined by clinical impact and academic rigour.
Professor Sackley is a leading figure in UK rehabilitation research. From her PhD at Nottingham to senior fellowships at Oxford and Birmingham and her professorial appointment at King’s College London, her work has shaped national guidelines, trained a generation of clinical academics, and brought rehabilitation science to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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PhD completions supervised
Years in clinical research
“The measure of rehabilitation research lies not just in the data of the trial, but in the restoration of independence to the person at the centre of it.”
Catherine Sackley