Professor Rebecca Kearney
Professor and Director of Bristol Trials Centre, University of Bristol
Rebecca is Professor and Director of Bristol Trials Centre, within Bristol Medical School. She is a NIHR Senior Investigator and academic physiotherapist leading in the design and delivery of clinical trials. Her primary focus is pragmatic multi centre randomised controlled trials that evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions in the area of trauma and orthopaedics. To ensure that patients and public members are at the heart of her programmes of research she has also been a member of four ‘James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships’.
Rebecca is currently co-chair for NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research and has previously been regional chair for NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (2021-2023). She has also previously been a committee member on NIHR Health Technology Assessment (2018-2022), NIHR ICA Doctoral Fellowships (2017-2021) and NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (2016-2019).