Speakers

Dr Nicola Hancock is Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation at the University of East Anglia, UEA, UK and a Lecturer and Researcher in Physiotherapy/Neurorehabilitation at the same institution. Her research interests include investigating activity and interventions and technologies that might promote recovery of coordinated, functional movement after onset of stroke; quality improvement via person-centred approaches to neurological rehabilitation; and user-centred design and evaluation for technology enhanced rehabilitation interventions.

Nicola has considerable experience of leadership, research and innovation and improvement across the stroke pathway, both as an expert clinician in stroke and as an academic. She is an immediate past member of the Royal College of Physicians Intercollegiate Stroke Working party, contributing to three sets of influential National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke, UK. Current projects include an evaluation of telerehabilitation services for stroke in the East of England.