Research interests
Maggie has a background in Health Psychology and is an Associate Professor within the School of Health Sciences. Her research aims to understand psychosocial issues relating to rehabilitation and disability into to promote a person-centered and user-led approaches. She has a particular interest in 1) the use and development of health technologies in rehabilitation (such as prosthetics and orthotics, functional electrical stimulation and cochlear implants), 2) understanding and fostering adherence to rehabilitation treatments, 3) improving and widening access to health and rehabilitation, which includes research in Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). In collaboration with a wide range of multidisciplinary teams in the UK and Internationally, her work often involves the use of flexible and creative methods with both adults and children.
Her research and education activities are closely linked as she is the Programme Lead for a multidisciplinary MSc programme in 'Amputation and Prosthetic Rehabilitation' and supervisors UG, MSc and doctoral projects within this field.
PhD Supervision
Maggie has Supervised as primary or second supervisor 13 students to successful doctoral award and 34 students to successful MSc and pre-registration MSc awards. Her current PhD students are:
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Chantel Ostler who is exploring the most important outcome measures for individuals with lower limb amputations
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Veena Agarwal who is exploring the Impact of Fatigue in Parkinson’s
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Suzanne O’gara who is looking at the ‘expectations of pre-lingual deafened adults and their families of cochlear implants.
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Rob Shannon who is exploring the feasibility of motivational interviewing as an adjunct to pulmonary rehabilitation.
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Nikky Godfrey who is exploring the relationship between Pilates teachers and clients with persistent low back pain
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Rhiannon Joslin who is exploring which outcomes are the most important to young people and their parents when receiving treatment for presistent pain
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Francine O’Malley who is exploring the clinical appropriateness and what influences antibiotic prescribing by nurse independent prescribers in clinical practice.
Research group
Active Living for Health
Research theme
Active Living
Affiliated research group(s)
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‘People Powered Prosthetics Group’, School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton
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‘Active Living and Rehabilitation’ Group, School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton
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Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Wessex Qualitative Research Group, University of Southampton
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Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton
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FortisNet, Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton
External research group(s)
Affiliated research project(s)
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Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Fit-for-purpose, affordable body-powered prostheses. £1,390,143.97
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Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). A step change in LMIC prosthetic provision through Computer Aided Design, Actimetry and Database Technologies. £894,934.64
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Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB). The effectiveness of peroneal nerve functional electrical STimulation (FES) for the reduction of bradykinesia. £250,000.
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Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme: People with Stroke and Parkinson's disease: Home and outdoor shoes. £249,439
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University of Southampton Adventure in Research Scheme: Iterative Unser-Centred Design of Paediatric Upper Limb. £19,993
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Faculty of Health Sciences PhD Studentship. Exploring the views and needs of children with upper limb deficiency to inform the development of user-led prosthetics: a mixed methods design. £52,668
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INSPIRE. A systematic Exploration of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in SCI: Stage 2, An International Questionnaire Study. £29,602
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The Big Lottery Fund. Supporting the positive development and well-being of children and young people with prostheses: the influence of the appearance of the prosthesis and individual choice. £71,110
Research project(s)
Study to find out the opinions of the spinal cord injury community about Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (ES) so that the knowledge can be used to direct research, technical development, and clinical and service provision.
A study to assess the feasibility and patient acceptability of Behaviour Change Counselling in negotiating the role of physical activity in the management of asthma (2009-2010).
A PhD programme of qualitative work exploring patients perceptions of pulmonary rehabilitation and their COPD (2008-2012)
The objective of this project was to investigate the views of the child with regard to their prostheses and to provide an insight into the potential improvements that could be made to existing designs to make them more acceptable to children.
Dr Maggie kate Donovan-Hall
Health Sciences Student Office University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ
Email:
mh699@soton.ac.uk
Room Number :
67/4003
