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A project to design and test a low-cost body powered prosthesis system

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A Blog by Maggie Donovan-Hall: Fit-for-Purpose Prosthetics: Scoping to Help Meet the User’s Needs

03/06/2019 by Carolyn

  My background is in health psychology and I currently work as an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences.  I am interested in the psycho social issues related to rehabilitation and I have had a particular interest in the area of prosthetics and orthotics since completing my MSc back in 1999.  My role […]

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We’re looking for an engineer to join the team!

15/04/2019 by Carolyn

The School of Energy and Electronic Engineering at the University of Portsmouth is seeking to appoint an engineer to work with Peter Kyberd on the project. The role of the engineer in Portsmouth will be to look at exploring novel approaches to the technology, aiming to realise a step change in body powered prosthesis performance. […]

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Trent International Prosthetics Symposium

06/03/2019 by Carolyn

We are around two weeks away from the Trent International Prosthetics Symposium  and UK ISPO/BACPAR National Members Society Annual Scientific Meeting, being held at The Lowry, here in Salford. As one of the conference Chairs, life is pretty hectic just now, but thought it worth letting you know about the project-related work being presented. On […]

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Welcome to our blog!

04/01/2019 by admin

About me I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Salford in the mid-1980s. Central Salford in those days was very different – the legendary Smiths were in their prime, the local coal mine was still operating, and the Salford docks (now the site of Media City) had just closed; there certainly were no trendy […]

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24 Feb

Looking forward to today's journal club - Dave Howard on his favourite topic, the dreaded curse of p<0.05!
'Scientists rise up against statistical significance' (see link below).
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