Dr Peter Worsley BSc, MCSP, PhD
Lecturer
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Dr Peter Worsley is a Lecturer within Health Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Medical devices can provide lifesaving interventions, but are often implicated in damaging vulnerable skin tissues.
His research and clinical experience has fuelled a passion for scientific understanding of key healthcare challenges. During his early research years he has gained experience in in-vivo (healthy volunteers and patient studies) and in-silico research techniques, funded by both industry (DePuy Research Consortium) and clinical partners (Solent NHS Trust).
In 2012 he joined a new Skin Health Research group within the Faculty of Health Sciences (FoHS), where he is responsible for efficient functioning of state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and supervising student researchers, including PhDs, masters and internships. He is a local leader of the South Central Hub of the Council of Allied Health Professionals Research (CAHPR), participating in national strategy meetings. He has also developed an international presence through co-organising scientific conferences, for example the second Focus meeting of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP), hosted by UoS in April 2014.
His research incorporates a multidisciplinary approach including academics from UoS, the UK, and an increasing number of international collaborators. His skills include physiological and biomechanical monitoring, imaging of musculoskeletal tissues and computational techniques to predict robust parameters which characterise medical device-body interactions. His research has been supported by UKRCs, NIHR, local University funding, NHS Trusts (PhD studentships) and industry’