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Dr Phill Harniess

Research Fellow

School: Communities and Education

Phill Harniess

Phill is post-doc clinical academic physiotherapist, with expertise in early identification and early intervention in childhood-onset disability. His research interests broadly include child neurodisability, family-centred care and parent carer wellbeing - explored using participatory qualitative methods through an applied health sociological lens.

He is currently undertaking a process evaluation study within the CHildren’s Early Self-care Support (CHESS) study for children with neurodisability, a cluster randomised controlled trial: Investigating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the CHESS intervention. This is a large UK collaborative trial funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme (project number NIHR156487).

  • PhD
  • Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy AFHEA
  • MSc, Neurorehabilitation (distinction)
  • BSc, Physiotherapy


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