About me
Dr Chris Seenan is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy. His research focuses on the lived experiences of individuals with long-term conditions, with a focus on Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), Intermittent Claudication (IC), Diabetes, and Chronic Pain. His work has resulted in the development and evaluation of complex interventions aimed at promoting optimal lifestyle management in non-communicable diseases.
Chris has a particular interest in participatory methods, exploring how individuals can collaboratively create, adapt, evaluate, and implement interventions for individuals with long-term conditions. His current projects include co-creating behaviour change interventions to support lifestyle modification in people with PAD and IC (OPTIMA and CREATE trial), investigating the feasibility of TENS and motivational interviewing to increase physical activity in PAD and IC (MAvERIC Trial), exploring acceptance of chronic pain, and developing public health educational resources to support lifestyle management in people with cardiovascular conditions (PrEPAID trial).
This work has led to over 30 research papers in internationally recognised journals and Chris¡¯s current doctoral supervision includes projects on co-creating behaviour change interventions to support lifestyle modification in people with PAD and IC, investigating the feasibility of TENS and motivational interviewing to increase physical activity in PAD and IC, exploring acceptance of chronic pain, and developing public health educational resources to support lifestyle management in people undergoing screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Chris is the Co-Editor in Chief of Pain and Rehabilitation: the Journal of the Physiotherapy Pain Association and Scottish Consortium Chair of the Community for Allied Health Profession Research (CAHPR).
Chris welcomes enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from around the world who are interested in PhD study.
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Development, evaluation, and implementation of complex interventions to help people to manage long term conditions and multimorbidity, particularly vascular, cardiovascular, and respiratory conditions and chronic pain. Using participatory methods to facilitate healthcare professionals and service users to create and deliver services and social innovation that addresses health inequities and promotes healthy ageing. Allied health professional education and development of research culture, capability and capacity.