Helen Dawes is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation in the College of Medicine and Health. She is themelead for rehabilitation in the NIHR Exeter BRC and co-director of health technologies at Exeter network and business engagement and innovation. 

Helen is a clinical academic physiotherapist working in multidisciplinary research across ages, conditions, and health and care settings. Her research focus is on rehabilitation innovations to enable people living with conditions affecting their movement to be able to move well. She collaborates with key colleagues in the UK across the NHS and Universities, and internationally with Shanghai Jiao Tong Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Sao Paulo, Drexel, Aarhus, Monash, and Oslo Universities. Her research involves working closely, with industry, clinicians, and the public, to develop, evaluate and translate to clinical practice transformative innovation.