About
Professor Jane Burridge is Emerita Professor of Restorative Neuroscience. Her research has led to a better understanding of the mechanisms of sensory-motor recovery following neurological injury and disease.
She and her colleagues have used this understanding to design and evaluate rehabilitation technologies that will improve recovery following central nervous system lesions such as stroke and spinal cord injury.
‘Stroke rehabilitation is changing. Already most rehabilitation takes place in people's own homes and over the coming years technologies to support them will become commonplace’
In collaboration with electronics, control, design and signal processing engineers, psychologists and industrial partners, she has developed technologies for measurement and therapy, including rehabilitation robots; Functional Electrical Simulation (FES); and non-invasive cortical stimulation.
Her Research has generated evidence for the clinical effectiveness of technology in rehabilitation, and, in collaboration with Health Psychologists, she has created a better understanding of motivation and adherence in neurological rehabilitation and barriers to adoption of new technologies.
Her work has driven change in stroke rehabilitation towards intensive, evidence-based and cost-effective, therapy, using state-of-the-art technology
Research
Research projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching on Rehabilitation Technologies spasticity, motor control and neurophysiology.
Biography
Jane has had a broad career. She trained as a physiotherapist, but took a break while bringing up a family, and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. For ten years she taught flute and performed professionally. She returned to study for a PhD and, on graduating, was appointed Senior Lecturer at Southampton, where she designed and led a new interdisciplinary Master’s degree in Rehabilitation and went on to lead many international research projects. In 2020 she became Emerita and studied English at the Open University, graduating with a First. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and writing her debut novel about Doctor James Barry, a woman who famously lived as a man in the 19th century.
Prizes
- Designing a web-based intervention to retrain balance following traumatic brain injury (2018)