UoA SAM Evidence of esteem (RA6a analysis)

Dr Connor undertook commissioned research for NHSE on 'Mentoring for Medics'. This was published in 1997. She has also published collaboratively with authors from the University of Newcastle. One of these is cited for this RAE in Medical Education. Another has recently been published in 'Clinicians in Management' (2000), 9, 169-179. This publication is entitled 'Individual doctors and clinical governance - achieving an appropriate balance of support and challenge in hospital medicine'. Dr Connor supervises 3 PhD students: 2 full-time Malaysian students (1 in his writing up year) and 1 full-time British student.

Dr Christine Mayers is a Principal Lecturer and was awarded a PhD by the University of Leeds in 1996. The title was 'The Development of a Client-Centred Approach for Community Occupational Therapy Practice: A National Survey'. The 'tool' for this approach is the Mayers' Lifestyle Questionnaire(1). This is used for assessing the quality of life needs by occupational therapists working with people with problems caused by physical disability. It is being used internationally by OTs in community care. Her present research interests follow on from her PhD research and she is now developing a measure more suitable for identifying the quality of life needs for people with enduring mental health problems.

Dr Mayers presents papers regularly at national and international professional and research conferences. She presented a paper at the World Federation of Occupational Therapists' Conference (a 4-yearly event) in Montreal in 1998, and was the keynote speaker on Philosophy of Occupational Therapy at the European Network of Occupational Therapists in Higher Education Conference. This was hosted by Slovenia in 1999. Dr Mayers was invited to present the Casson Memorial Lecture at the British Annual Conference of the College of Occupational Therapists in 2000. This is one of the highest honours to be given to an occupational therapist in the UK. The lecture was entitled 'Reflect on the Past to Shape the Future'.

All Dr Mayers' research has been in the area of developing the theory underpinning the profession's practice, particularly in the area of client-centred practice within community care. She has a very strong professional profile because of her work both in professional education and profession-based research.
Dr Mayers is a peer reviewer for the British Journal of Occupational Therapy. She has been a member of the College of Occupational Therapists' Research & Development Board between 1996-2000. She is also a member of the Northern & Yorkshire Nursing and PAMs Regional R & D Advisory Group. She is frequently asked for advice about research projects being undertaken by occupational therapy practitioners. Dr Mayers has reviewed research proposals for York Health Trust and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.

Matthew Molineux is a Senior Lecturer and is in the final year of his PhD study. The title is 'Living with HIV; an Occupational Perspective'. Matthew Molineux presents papers regularly at national and international professional and research conferences. He has presented a paper at the World Federation of Occupational Therapists' Conference (a 4-yearly event) in Montreal in 1998. He was an invited lecturer to speak on 'Occupational Science and Clinical Reasoning: Foundations for Practice' at the Centro de Medicina de Reabilitacao de Alcoitao, Portugal in 1999. Matthew Molineux was invited to speak on 'Occupations of men with HIV/AIDS: Meaning and Impact on Health' at LaTrobe University, Australia in 2000.

Matthew Molineux has a national reputation for his keenness to further develop the profession's theory base on 'occupation'. His PhD research is in this area and he has written individual and collaborative research articles on this topic. He organised the first UK Occupational Science Symposium at the College in September 1999. Professor Yerxa, a world-wide expert in this area was invited from the USA, as key speaker. Matthew Molineux is the Founder and Director of OccupationUK - the British Institute for Occupation and Health, established in 2000. The next OS Symposium will be hosted by OccupationUK and the Department of Professional Health Studies in November 2001. He is planning the first OccupationUK Masterclass for 2001. This will be an annual event aimed primarily at occupational therapists and will provide an opportunity to explore current research and thinking about the occupational nature of humans.

Matthew Molineux is an elected member of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists' International Advisory Group on Occupational Science; and an invited member of the European Network of Occupational Therapists in Higher Education Occupational Science Working Group.

Laura Potts is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and has a national and international reputation for her work on breast cancer. She presented a paper at the Worldwide Conference on Breast Cancer in Ottawa (July, 1999). She is going to San Franisco in spring 2001 to undertake further empirical research on the theme of breast cancer activism and corporate responsibility. She presented a paper at the British Sociological Association's Annual International Conference (April 2001) entitled 'We are the body of evidence: breast cancer activism and environmental justice'. This paper will be published in the Journal of International Women's Studies, USA. Laura Potts has been invited to contribute to a new OU book on the sociology of cancer.

Dr Ian Rivers is a Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Surrey in 1999. The title of his thesis was 'The psycho-social correlates and long-term implications of bullying at school for lesbians, gay men and bisexual men and women'. Dr Rivers has a strong international reputation for his research work in this area. This has resulted in presentations at conferences, articles in refereed journals and chapters in books.

He is regularly granted scholarship and travel awards. In 1996, he was awarded a Froebal Research Committee grant to complete his PhD research. In 1997, he gained a travel award to become a Dissertation Fellow at the University of Southern California. He was awarded an Overseas Conference Grant by the British Academy in 1999. Dr Rivers gained an ESRC Research Seminar Competition Grant of £6798 (1999-2001). The project title is 'Researching Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Issues in Statutory, Further and Higher Education'. The British Psychological Society and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders awarded Dr Rivers and J.McManus £3836 for a seminar series on 'Homophobic Violence and Hate Crimes: Applying Psychological Research to national and Local Policy'. He is at present awaiting the review of 4 research awards amounting to £125,496.

Dr Rivers is a Fellow of the International Society for Research on Aggression (elected 1994) and of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland.

Dr Andy Smith is Head of the School of Sports Science and Psychology. Dr Smith regularly speaks at national conferences on sport and health issues. He was elected Chair of the British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences (BASES) during 1998-2000. In 1998 he organised the first BASES conference, which was hosted by the College. This had a health theme and was sponsored by the Health Education Authority. During this time he worked on the accreditation criteria of Sports and Exercise Scientists, the QAA benchmarking statements for Unit 25 and the promotion and dissemination of sport and exercise science research.

Dr Smith has worked with others and the Department of Health on the production of a National Quality Assurance Framework for Exercise Referral Systems. This work is awaiting publication. Dr Smith is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Sports Sciences, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, the European Journal of Physical Education.

Dr Smith supervised a research student who was awarded his MSc by research in 2001. He is currently supervising three PhD students, two of whom are in their writing up period.

Val Wosket is a senior lecturer in Counselling. She has very recently heard (March 2001) that she will be awarded a PhD by the University of Leeds. This is a PhD by published work and is the first to be awarded by the University to a member of staff in one of its affiliated colleges. She presents papers regularly at national conferences.

Val Woskett is a peer reviewer for the 'British Journal of Guidance and Counselling' and a member of the International Editorial Advisory panel of 'Counselling Research'.

1.2.Peer review: (i) Published Reviews: Bone (2); Denyer (3); Faragher (11, inc 3 Nature); M.Green/I.Green (6); Lloyd (5); Mikhalovsky (1); Moghimi (8); Naughton (3); Yeoman (1).

(ii) Grants/manuscripts: all staff review grants (research councils, charities, UK Gov. agencies and EU) and manuscripts (>50 journals). Denyer & Lloyd are EPSRC College members. (iii) Editorial board memberships emphasise multidisciplinarity: Diabetes Digest (Bone); J. Anti-ageing Med. (Faragher); Biochem J. (I.Green); Mutagenesis (M.Green); J. Pharm. Pharmacol. (Chairman of Board), Pharm. Pharmacol. Commun. (until ‘00), Eur.J.Parent. Sci., J. App. Microbiol. (until ’98), Int. Biodet. Biodeg. (Denyer); Drug Discovery Today, Pharm. Sci. Technol. Today (Consultant Ed. until ‘00), Int. J. Pharmaceut. (Lloyd); Efferent Medicine (Mikhalovsky); Anal. Abs. (O’Hare). (iv) External PhD/Masters examiners during the period include: Bone (Uppsala, Newcastle, London, Aston); Cragg (Bath); Denyer (Manchester Met., Belfast, Cardiff, Strathclyde MSc); Faragher (Cambridge, Essex, Manchester MSc); Gallacher (Bath, Sheffield); I.Green (London); M.Green (Oxford, Surrey); Lloyd (Kings, Portsmouth, Aston, Ulster, Kingston); O'Hare (Imperial MSc).

The 4 research groups include staff who hold office in learned societies and serve on national/international advisory committees; examples of individual esteem within the groups include:

2 External examiners for higher degrees in research
Petty (University of Sydney), Moore (University of Otago, University of Queensland, University of Ghent) and Sadlo (University of Sheffield).

3 Invited lectures
Dawson – International Society of Educators in Physiotherapy, Yokohama, Japan, 1999.
Sadlo – Keynote address at the National Conference of Enquiry Based Learning Assessment and Problem Based Learning,1999, University of Southampton. Invited lecturer on the Bologna agreement at the ERGO2000 European Occupational Therapy Congress, Paris and keynote addresses on PBL in Higher Education, Manchester and Rotterdam 2001. Sadlo acts as a PBL consultant for a number of national and European universities.
Mandy - International Australian Podiatry Conference, Canberra 2001.
Lucas - Keynote address on Adolescent Smoking Behaviours, Helsinki 2001.
Moore – Keynote addresses at: the Annual Danish Physiotherapy Conference, Odensa, Denmark 1997; the Clinical Effectiveness Conference, King's College London, 1997 and 1998; the World Congress of Physical Therapists, Europe 1996; and many other invited lectures.
Petty – Keynote address at the Italian Manual Therapists Conference, March 2001.
Dawson, Jones and Moore – Invited speakers at the 3rd Arabian Physiotherapy Confederation Conference in Jordan, March 2000.
Burden - Invited lecturer in electromyography for the Universities of Exeter and Bath.
Maxwell - Invited lecturer for University College Chichester.
Webborn - Invited speaker for the Institute of Sports Medicine, Kuala Lumpur; the World Congress of Sports Medicine, Florida 1996; and the Paralympic Congress, Sydney, Australia 2000.

Academic presentations and editorships He has given many invited talks at Universities and Learned Societies abroad and in the UK, and has held Honorary Chairs at the Universities of Surrey and East Anglia, and Visiting Chairs at Ain Shams University, Cairo and Kebangsan University, Malaysia. He is past member of two editorial boards and has edited guidelines on nutrition and food safety for ESPGHAN, IPA and DoH.

Aggett was recently awarded an OBE for services to Food Safety.

Goodacre has made substantial contributions both to Immunology and Rheumatology. He Chairs the BSI’s Autoimmunity Affinity Group (1998 to date), and has chaired Scientific Committees for joint BSI / BSR and BSI / Biochemical Society Scientific Symposia. He co-organised the BSI Autoimmunity Session at the 1999 BSI AGM, and was invited Chair of scientific sessions at the BSI symposium on “Breaking and restoring tolerance in autoimmunity”, and at the 1998 American College of Rheumatology Annual Congress. He is Visiting Professor in Rheumatology, Al Azhar University Medical School, Cairo, and external consultant in Rheumatology for AstraZeneca, and Merck Sharp and Dohme. Over the past 4 years he has given over 20 invited external lectures, including talks at the Universities of Cambridge, Aberdeen, Dundee, Sheffield, Western Ontario, and Chicago. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Assessment Panel for NHS R&D Fund Zonal Group for Lancashire and South Cumbria, and a member of R&D committees for four local NHS Trusts and the Fylde PCG. He is a member of the joint NWDA / NWUA panel on Life Sciences. He has received extensive research funding support from the ARC, and is on grant assessment panels for the Wellcome Trust, MRC, ARC and Health Research Council of New Zealand.

Häyry is Editor for three series of academic books, and is on the advisory board of two others, including the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. He has acted as a referee for the Journal of Medical Ethics, Social Science and Medicine, Ethical Theory and Practice, and also for several other national and international journals or series. He has supervised eight doctoral theses and presented 20 papers at international conferences, and 20 at academic and professional gatherings in Finland. He has been involved in three Finnish publicly-funded research projects, and three multi-national projects, including Euroscreen 2. He has also acted as an ethical Advisor to Finnish national and parliamentary commissions.

Levitt has been a key investigator in four EU-funded projects in the field of Bioethics. She has been an invited speaker at workshops sponsored by the ESRC, the Wellcome Trust and the Institute of Biology and given invited seminars at the Universities of Essex, Lancaster, West of England, Glamorgan, and Chester College of Higher Education. She has presented 11 invited papers at academic conferences in the UK and abroad, including the Centre for Law and Ethics in Hanover, an EU sponsored workshop in Madrid, and the Irish Science Teachers’ Association in Dublin. She was invited to address the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies Committee in Brussels as an expert witness on genetic testing in the workplace, to present research findings to representatives of the Diagnostic Industry in Europe, and to give a seminar on the Gene Shop in an ESRC-sponsored series. She has refereed research proposals for the ESRC and manuscripts for John Wiley, Earthscan publishers, Social Science and Medicine, Bioethics and Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics. She is a member of the editorial board and Reviews Editor of New Genetics and Society.

Category A*
Chadwick was Editor in Chief of the Encyclopaedia of Applied Ethics. In addition to her editorship of Bioethics, she is a member of 16 editorial boards including the Journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care and Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. She gave keynote addresses at conferences in Japan, the USA, Australia and Canada, and has been an invited speaker at conferences in Hong Kong, Canada, Japan, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Switzerland, The Netherlands, USA, Australia, France, Germany and Cyprus. She is Vice-Chair of the Human Genome Organisation’s Ethics Committee and was Chair of its Cloning Statement Sub-Committee. She is Treasurer of the National Committee for Philosophy and was secretary of the International Association of Bioethics from 1992-97, and a member of the Board of IAB from 1992-99. She is a member of the Food Ethics Council and chair of its working group on Novel Foods. She has received extensive research funding from the EU. Other significant committee memberships include the MRC’s Working Group on genetics, SHEFC’s Research Grants Assessment Panel, MRC Committee on scientific advances in genetics, and member of the Board of the Bertarelli Foundation. She was panel member for the Finnish RAE for Philosophy.

Taylor was appointed Research Professor in Food Safety at the University of Salford in January 2001. Her rapid development is exemplified by her appointment in 1999 as a Member of the Food Standards Agency and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Advisory Panel on HACCP. She has been invited to present research and critical commentary papers at Conferences of learned societies and Government Advisory Groups on HACCP in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and Australia, as well as in Europe over the past three years. She is a member of the Royal Institute of Public Health’s Committee on HACCP, and of its Public Health Standards Committee.

Category C
Horner has been invited to present papers at international conferences in Canada, Germany and the USA, and is a regular reviewer for the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Journal of Public Health Medicine, Public Health, and the Journal of the Royal Society of Health. He is Vice President of the BMA and a Vice President of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He was a member of the Medical Ethics Committee until 1999. He has served as a member of the Home Office Data Protection Tribunal, and as an independent assessor to the DoH under the “Nolan procedures” to monitor appointments to government bodies.

Human Motor Performance Group

Fiona Coutts, 'Abdominal Muscle Function in Chronic Low-Back Pain Patients' at WCPT, Japan (1999). Co-led with Beeston 3-year project with Pavlov Medical Institute, Early Learning Institute and Postgraduate Medical School, St. Petersburg, Russia, funded by Know-How Project Fund (SPS140). Invited presentations to Association of Neurological Chartered Physiotherapists, Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Elderly Care (AGILE) London & CSP Annual Congress, (2000) on 'Biomechanics of Elderly Gait'. Vice Chair of Higher Education Consortium on Continuing Professional Development, CSP (1997–2000), Chair, Education Sub-Committee (1994-1997) and Research Officer, Association of Orthopaedic Chartered Physiotherapists, a CSP sub group (1995-8), Clinical Research Advisor to SMS Healthcare Ltd.(1998–date).

Dr. Matthew Morrissey, External Examiner, PhD Delft Institute of Technology, the Netherlands (2000). :'Effects of open and closed kinetic chain exercise following ACL reconstruction’ World Congress of Biomechanics, Japan, (1998). Invited presentation 'Knee ligament rehabilitation', Action Research Conference, London (1999). Project leader, 4 major research awards (RA4) leading to 8 published research papers to date and a further 8 in press. Reviewer for Physical Therapy, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy and Clinical Biomechanics.

Dr. Oona Scott, External Examiner PhD Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh (1998). Member of the Physiological Society (1994-). Organised 4 day international meeting on Human Motor Performance (RA5a). Partner in 5 major research grant awards (RA4), invited speaker in 1999 on 'Aerobic Fitness after Brain Injury' Third Annual Conference 'Recent advances in Brain injury rehabilitation' Homerton Hospital, London, and 'Muscle function following stroke' Muscle Power in Health & Sport Conference organised by the Institute of Sports Medicine with the Royal Free and University College Medical School. Over 20 paper presentations at national and international conferences including on 'Effect of combined aerobic and light resistance training on lower limb muscle strength and function in elderly women' at Annual Congress, European College of Sport Science, Finland (2000).

All members of the Group review professional journals including Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy Theory & Practice, Clinical Rehabilitation and all are members of professional special interest groups.

Practice Development Research Grouping

Chris Bithell, Honorary Research Associate, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney (1998-2001); Scientific and Clinical Editor of Physiotherapy, (1999-2000 secondment to CSP); Member, Editorial Board of 'Physiotherapy Research International' (1997-); Chair, Physiotherapy Research Society (PRS) (1995-98) hosting Spring Scientific Meeting 'Recent Research in Neurological Physiotherapy', London, 1998, Invited speaker, Spring Meeting: Small-Scale Qualitative Studies, Coventry, 1999.

Maggie Rastall, nominated by Association of Community Health Councils in England and Wales to Standing Group of Consumers in NHS Research (1999-), Convenor of Newham Community Research Forum (1997-1999), Chair of Greenwich Community Health Council (1997–2000, Vice Chair 2000- ), Chair of Greenwich CHC Research Committee (May 2000-).

Susan Ryan, Permanent Consultant, Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust and UNICEF: New Delhi – India, Editor Special Issues of British Journal of Occupational Therapy: May 1996- Clinical Reasoning, and Nov 2001- Professional Education: A Re-Vision. Member of Centre for Professional Educational Advancement- Sydney University, Australia, Special Advisor to Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Awarded £4K by Byers Memorial Fund for 'Professional Thinking: Voices of Graduate Occupational Therapists'.

All members of the PDRG undertake regular reviews of papers submitted for publication to their respective professional journals.

Applied Sports and Exercise Grouping

Dr. Paul Carpenter, Visiting Scholar, International Centre for Talent Development, Psychology Department, UCLA. Invited speaker Loughborough University and University College London, on exercise and sports psychology. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology and their Human Kinetics' European Gateway Editor. Presented at four International conferences: San Diego, CA (1997), Wingate Institute, Israel(1997), Cape Cod, MA (1998) and Prague, Czech Republic (1999). His work was presented at three international conferences in the USA and at five national conferences and has 6 refereed publications from these studies and more in press.

Prof. Gerard Garbutt, Head of Department of Health Sciences (1999). Edits BASES Physiological Testing Guidelines. International presentations at European College of Sports Science Conference, Nice (1996), and in Rome (1999). Invited to speak at National Sports Medicine Institute, RCN Special Interest Group (1998). Garbutt also represents the department on: Barts and the London NHS Trust Research Advisory Committee, City and East London Research and Development Network Training Sub-Group, Barking, Havering and Brentwood Community Healthcare NHS Trust Research and Development Committee, East London & Essex Network of Researchers, South East London Education Consortium Steering and Strategy Group, North and East London Sports Network.

Dr. Philippe Lopes, Invited speaker on heart rate variability and coronary heart disease risk factors: - Queen's Medical School, University of Nottingham; University of Ulster at Jordanstown; and Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education.

Dr. Linda Trenberth, Member, Network of International Teaching Faculty of World Leisure and Recreation Association, International Centre of Excellence, Tilberg, Holland; Massey University Health Sciences Research Team; Editorial Board, Australian and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies and Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck College.

Health Studies and Promotion Grouping

Dr. Pauline Lane, International presentations on 'Scopic Elites in Biomedicine’ Science, Technology and Society Conference. Tokyo, (1998) and on ‘Bio-colonialism' Conference on Racism in Scientific Research'. Schomberg Centre, USA (1998). Guest speaker, Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL (1999) and guest, South Asian Society Conference at Leeds University (1999), Member of:- Expert Panel on Gaia Philosophy, The Royal Academy (1998); Editorial Review Team, ‘Health and Social Care in the Community’ and a consultant on a La Leche League evaluation project.

Phil Jones has established the Arts Therapies Research Library in collaboration with Jessica Kingsley Publications and has been the acting editor preparing the first volumes, which are to be published in 2001. He has also been preparing his submission for a PhD on the basis of published work.

Dr Janek Dubowski was the chairman for the Conference Planning Committee for the 4^th. ECArTE Conference. He was also an invited Key Note speaker to the 5^th. Conference held at the University of Munster in Germany in 1999. He was invited to chair and contribute to the first Arts Therapy Conference in Iceland on 16^th. September 2000 and was appointed as a peer-reviewer for The ATRL in 1999.

Julia Buckroyd was invited to contribute to the International Organisation for Professional Dancer Transition conference in the Hague in 1998 and to the Not Just Anybody Conference supported by the Theatre Institute of the Netherlands in The Hague in 2000. She was invited to become a member of the Female Athlete Triad committee, which prepared a booklet for the Dance UK Conference at the Opera House, Covent Garden in 2000 and was an invited contributor to the Conference. She has been invited to present at the German Dance Medicine Symposium in Cologne in March 2001 and at the British Performing Arts Medicine Conference in Glasgow in August 2001. Julia has been invited to present to the International Symposium on Dance Medicine, Cologne, 2001.

Alida Gersie was appointed as a peer reviewer for The Lancet in 1999. She was a Panel Member for UoA 11 during the 1996 RAE.

Prof. Helen Payne was made a Fellow of ADMT (Association of Dance Movement Therapists). She is also a Visiting Professor to the University of Derby.

Radiography
Richard Price is a member of the Joint Validation Committee of the professional and statutory body. He is a member of the Editorial Board of ‘Radiography’ and a referee for the British Journal of Radiology, He is joint editor of ‘Current Topics in Radiography’ and has contributed articles on radiographic reporting. He was Chair of the Special Interest Group in Radiographic Reporting from 1996-1999. He has presented at national and international conferences on role extension and radiographic reporting. Regina Fernando is a CoR reviewer for postgraduate courses and has presented at an international conference and contributed articles to the British Medical Ultrasound Bulletin on critical thinking skills and occupational standards. Dr Sue Le Masurier (PhD 1998) sits on the Assessment Board of the NHS(E) Eastern Secondary Care Enterprise Awards and is a supervisor for a primary care enterprise award holder.

Prestigious lectures and conference presentations
Between 1996 and 2001 members of the BPSRG delivered 8 plenary/keynote and 68 invited lectures at national and international conferences in Australia (Barker, Daszak, [ ]), Canada (Barker, [ ]), mainland Europe ([ ], Barker, Daszak, Davies, Jones, [ ], [ ]), South Africa (Davies), the Middle East ([ ]), the USA (Barker, Daszak, [ ], [ ]) and the UK (Barker, [ ], Daszak, Jones, Kirk, [ ], Tyrrell, Walker, [ ]). A further 197 papers and posters were presented at conferences in Australia, Brazil, mainland Europe, South Africa, the USA and the UK during this period.

Conference organisation
During the census period, members convened or co-organised 36 conferences and ran workshops at venues in mainland Europe, Japan, South Africa, the USA and the UK. For example, [ ] is currently organising the 68^th Glycobiology and Medicine meeting to be held in Lille, France. Jones, as Secretary of the Royal Society of Chemistry Heterocyclic Group (1996-1999), was organiser of the UK biennial conferences on Heterocyclic Chemistry (1997 and 1999). Jones was also leading UK organiser of joint meetings with the Italian Chemical Society (1998 and 2000) held in Ireland and Italy. Smit acted as convenor of the 29^th annual conference of the Parasitological Society of Southern Africa, Bloemfontein (2000). Tyrrell convened "Chemistry for the New Millennium", at Kingston (2000). [ ] was a member of the organising committee of "Frontiers in Modelling and Control of Breathing", N. Falmouth, USA (2000).

Prizes and Awards
[ ] was joint inventor of an electric pupillometer and finalist in the NHS Innovation Awards (2000). Daszak won the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Medal for scientific research achievement (2000). Davies had an apicomplexan parasite named for her (Eimeria daviesae, Molnar 2000). Fielder received the Tadion-Rideal prize for distinguished doctoral work in molecular science at KCL (1996). [ ] was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship in 1998. McGuckin was Millennium Fellow of the Millennium Commission (2000). [ ] was the recipient of a Fulbright Cancer Fellowship, UK/USA (1994-1996) and a Lady Tata Memorial Fellowship (1995-1996). Smit won the Neitz Medal for the best parasitology research MSc thesis in South Africa (1998). Walker was the recipient of both the Long Ashton Cup for the best postgraduate seminar, and the Hosier Award from the University of Bristol (1996). [ ] received a Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Advancement of Science in 1999.

Chairmanships, Panel and Committee Membership
Members of the BPSRG have also acted both as chairs and members of a number of panels and committees. For example, [ ] has been secretary, treasurer, and is now section president (1999 - present) of The Royal Society of Medicine Council for Clinical Immunology and Allergy. He is also director elect of the Hotung Centre for muscular-skeletal disorders. [ ] is Centre Director for two Department of Health Medical Devices Agency Evaluation groups. He is also a committee member of the USA-based NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) which sets international standards for imaging systems, and a member of the abstract review section for the Annual Meeting of the European Cardiac Society. Jones is chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), Fine Chemicals Group (1999-2002), and is therefore involved in 11 meetings each year covering organic chemistry to medicinal chemistry. He is also a member of the SCI governing Council. [ ] is chairman of the Data Safety and Monitoring Committee, UK NHS R&D mild hepatitis C trial. [ ] was a member of the scientific committees of the 10^th Flemish Interdisciplinary Ultrasound Congress (1996-1997) and the British Medical Ultrasound Society 2000 (1999-2000). [ ] is chair or a member of seven UK committees dealing with lymphomas, mantle cell lymphomas and other haematologic malignancies. Pittilo was a member of the NHS Executive (South Thames) Research and Development Scientific Advisory Panel (1994-1999), and is a member of the NHS Executive London Region Research and Development Committee (1999- present). He is also a member of the Task Group for the NHS London Region that aims to improve health sector research in London. [ ] is chairman of the International Union of Physiological Sciences: Respiratory Commission, co-chairman of the European Respiratory Society Committee on "Clinical Exercise Testing", Section Chair of the American Thoracic Society Committee on "Exercise Testing Standards" and committee member of The Physiological Society.

Editorships
[ ] edited Medicine, a medical textbook for students, was Associate Editor of the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases (1994-1999), and is a recent member of the editorial boards of Bailliere’s Clinical Rheumatology, Lupus, Clinical Rheumatology, Glycoconjugate Journal, and Journal of Therapeutic Biotechnology. Jones is a member of the editorial board of ARKIVOC. [ ] is Assistant Editor to Addiction. [ ] is a recent editor of Experimental Physiology, and the European Journal of Applied Physiology, and Foreign Consulting Editor to Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise; he is also on the editorial board of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Respiration, and Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation.

Peer Reviewing – grant awarding bodies
Davies is an academic assessor for the National Research Foundation of South Africa (1997- present) and Davies and McGuckin are both EC Framework 5 expert evaluators (1999-2002). Jewell and [ ] are both referees for the Leukaemia Research Fund. Jones is a reviewer for Swiss National Science Funds. Jones and McGuckin act as reviewers for the Leverhulme Trust. Jones and Storey have acted as referees for the EPSRC. McGuckin is also a reviewer for the Wellcome Trust, and adviser to both the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust and the American Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation. [ ] is a reviewer for the Association of International Cancer Research, Cancer Research Campaign, Medical Research Council and International Cancer Technology Fellowships.

Distinguished Visitors
Members of the BPSRG have hosted many prominent academic visitors, especially from overseas. Davies was host to distinguished protozoologists Dr. T.G. Smith (University of Toronto, Canada) in 1998, Professors J.G. Van As and L. Basson (University of the Orange Free State, South Africa) and Professor J. Lom (Institute of Parasitology, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic) in 1999. Jones was host to Professor J. Bonjoch (Barcelona) and Dr A. Studer (ETH, Zurich) in 1999.

Invited Professorships/Extended Research Visits
Barker is Scientific Associate at CERN. Invited professorships/extended research visits have been awarded to Davies, at the University of the Orange Free State, South Africa (1998, 2000) funded by both The Royal Society and The Foundation for Research Development, Pretoria, and to Jones at Neuchatel, Switzerland (1999), funded by the EU. [ ] is visiting professor at the University of Glasgow, Centre for Exercise Science and Medicine.

Roles as External Examiners
Members of the BPSRG are also in demand as external examiners of postgraduate research theses for many universities. [ ], Barker, Davies, Jewell, Jones, Pittilo and [ ] have assumed this role at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Leeds, Southampton, London, Wales, Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s Belfast. In addition, Davies, Jones and [ ] have examined theses from Australia, Europe, the Middle East and South Africa.

Editorial Boards: Professor Kneale (Molecular Biotechnology), Professor Tipton (Ergonomics; International Journal of Biometeorology), Professor Rogers (British Journal of Biomedical Science; European Journal of Phycology), Dr Tsibouklis (Fluoropolymer)., Dr Gorecki (Emerging Drugs), Dr Shute (Inflammation Research).

Conference Organisation: Professor Kneale (Biochemical Society, Glasgow, 1999); Professor Ford (Neurotox '97; Molecular Graphics Society, 2001; Professor Rogers (Interlec 18, Portsmouth, 1999); Professor Tipton (European Baromedical Society, Slovenia, 1997); Dr Smart (Cardiovascular Diseases and Stability of the Organism, Prague, 1998); Drs Smart/Tsibouklis (5th Biopolymer Research Conference, Portsmouth 2001); Dr Shute , British Association for Lung research, Southampton, 1997).

National and International Committees: Professor Rogers (Chair, Heads of University Centres for Biomedical Sciences; Council for Professions Allied to Medicine, MLT board), Professor Kneale (Wellcome Trust), Professor Tipton (Royal College of Surgeons; Defence Scientific Advisory Council), Dr Tsibouklis (EPSRC; Royal Society of Chemistry), Professor Ford (Society for Chemical Industry), Dr G.Mills (Royal Society of Chemistry), Dr Alexander (EPSRC); Dr Shute (British Association of Lung Research; European Network for Understanding Mechanisms in Severe Asthma.)

Major Conference Presentations: Typical examples of invited contributions to major conferences include the following: Dr Brown (Canadian Association of Gastroenterology: Quebec, 1996; Alberta, 1997); Prof. Crane-Robinson (Biochemical Society, Dundee, 1997; several NIH laboratories and University of Miami, USA); Dr Ebenezer (1st Symposium on Food Intake, Copenhagen, 1996); Dr Firman (Society for General Microbiology, Symposium on Molecular Motors, Leeds, 1999,); Professor Ford (5th International conference on Pests in Agriculture, Montpelier, 1999; 217th American Chemical Society meeting, California, 1999); Dr Guille (EMBO Workshop on Regulation and Function of GATA Proteins, Capri 1997; 8th International Xenopus Conference, Colarado, 2000); Prof. Kneale, Dr Mernagh (4th NEB workshop on Biological DNA Methylation, Innsbruck); Prof. Tipton (AGARD mission, DCIEM International Meeting, Toronto,1997 & 1998; Croatian Medical Association, Sibenik, 1999). Dr Tsibouklis (37th Annual Conference on Adhesion and Adhesives, Oxford, 1999), Dr Smart (SKB UK Science Symposium, Southampton 1998), Dr Sharpe (7th International Xenopus Conference, Sardinia, 1998). Dr Shute (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, New Orleans, 1997; North American Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Orlando, 1996; European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Lisbon, 2000; Airway Remodelling in Asthma, Gothenburg, 1998), Dr Triantafilou (British Society of Immunology, Harrogate,1998,1999 & 2000)

International Collaboration: There are numerous collaborations with prestigious research groups in Universities, and Institutes overseas. Examples include Johns Hopkins University and National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda (Crane-Robinson); University of Kiev (Kneale, Crane-Robinson); Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble (Kneale); Institute of Molecular Genetics, Moscow (Firman, McClellan); Tel Aviv University, and Institute of Microbiology, Prague (Firman); University of Virginia (Guille); National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda (Chandler); CSIRO, Sydney (G.Mills); Dalhousie University, Canada and Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia (Tipton); University of Eindhoven, Johns Hopkins University and Delft University (Tsibouklis, Smart). University of Basilica (Conte), University of Frankfurt (Read), University of Minnesota (Sharpe), State University of Ceore, Brazil and University of Merida, Venezuela (Rogers), University of Sydney, University of Washington and Case Western University (Shute).

Links with Industry and National Bodies: Many staff are involved in research collaborations with national and multi-national industrial companies e.g. SmithKlineBeecham, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Reckitt Beckinser, Cyanamid, Zeneca, Bayer and Avencia; with government organisations such as the Defence Research Agency, Ministry of Defence, Health & Safety Executive and Home Office and with BBSRC research Institutes (e.g Babraham, Rothamstead, Silsoe and the Institute of Food Research). In addition, there are many collaborations with leading universities and medical schools in the UK (e.g. Imperial College, UCL, Nottingham, Leeds, Bristol, Southampton, Sheffield and Durham).

Awards and Honours: In the assessment period, six staff have held prestigous personal research fellowships: Professor Crane-Robinson (Foggarty Research Fellow, NIH, Bethesda); Dr Sharpe (MRC Senior Fellowship), Dr Alexander (EPSRC Advanced Fellowship); Dr Chandler (Wellcome Trust International Prize Travelling Fellowship); Dr Gorecki (Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship); Dr Hebbes (Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship). Dr Tsibouklis and Dr G. Mills have recently been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

External Examining. Staff are regularly engaged in external PhD examination; this includes many 5 and 5* departments e.g. Cambridge (Kneale; Crane-Robinson), East Anglia (Kneale); Ulster (Rogers), Southampton (Rogers), Belfast (Shute), Nottingham (Tipton, Smart), Bristol (Firman), UCL (Firman), Edinburgh (Firman), as well as renowned Universities and Research Institutes abroad e.g. University of Dublin (Shute), University of Rhodes, South Africa (Tipton), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Kneale).

Professional Bodies: Our staff play important roles in the national and international bodies which govern the Professions Allied to Medicine. Committee responsibilities include: Batterham, International Relations Committee of the American College of Sports Medicine; Johnstone, International Committee of the Faculty of Public Health Health; Howe, Scientific Panel of the CSP (chair), Physiotherapy Research Society (treasurer); Kelly, Scientific Panel CSP; Summerbell, Association for the Study of Obesity, Scientific Advisory Committee to the British Nutrition Foundation, obesity group of the British Dietetic Association; and Shah, N&Y Regional Nursing and PAMs Research Group. Batterham has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. All staff are members of national associations related to their professional discipline. A number of the International Associations mentioned above offer postgraduate awards, and some have attained this high level of certification including accredited research physiologist offered by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences [Batterham], advanced diploma in dietetics [Summerbell], and Fellowship of the Royal Statistical Society [Kelly].

Funding bodies: Our staff play important roles in the process of funding research. Many members of the PAMs group act as expert referees for a number of regional and charitable funding bodies, including Shah, New Zealand Neurological Foundation, New Zealand Public Health NHS R&D (NCCHTA); Howe & Johnstone, NHS-E HTA Programme; and Howe, NHS-E South Thames project grant scheme, PPP Healthcare Medical Trust.

Committee membership of funding bodies include: Howe & Kelly, Physiotherapy Research Foundation, Robert William’s International awards, Hospital Savings Awards and Research Capacity Committee for the NHS-E N&Y R&D Directorate; and Gray, Commissioned Funding Research Committee for the NHS-E N&Y R&D Directorate. Johnstone is Chair of the N&Y Modernisation Board for Improving Health and Tackling Inequalities which commissions research and evaluations for government programmes on health improvement such as Health Action Zones. Summerbell, is part of the NHS-E programme on School Breakfast clubs.

National and International Commissioned Research: Summerbell was commissioned through the Health Technology Programme of the Department of Health to co-author a chapter on obesity for the third edition of the Health Care Needs Assessment.

External examinership for research degrees: Between them staff have acted as external examiners for 4 PhD and 2 MPhil and 1 MLitt degree candidates. The awarding universities include Glasgow Caledonian, Glasgow, Manchester, Salford, Ulster.

Invited Keynote speakers at International Conferences: Shah has delivered a number of keynote addresses at international events including; Malaysia (Gerontology), Germany (Neurology), Italy (COST-A5) and Summerbell is invited for the next International Congress on Obesity (Brazil, 2002).

International Consultancy/ Visiting Fellowships: Shah has been a visiting fellow with the King Faisal Research Centre Saudi Arabia.

15.2. Fellowships of learned and professional bodies
Hardcastle: Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics (1995) and the Royal Society of Arts (1996). Laver: Fellow of the British Academy (1990), the Institute of Acoustics (1988) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1994).

15.3. Membership of important bodies and committees
Hardcastle: Member of SHEFC’s Research Policy Advisory Committee; member of the Research and Commercialisation Committee of Universities Scotland; member of the RAE 2001 panel (Linguistics, sub-panel Phonetics); member of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association; council member of the International Phonetics Association; President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (1991-2000). Laver: Founding Chairman of the Humanities Research Board of the British Academy (1994-98); Humanities Adviser to the Research Working Group of the Dearing Committee (1996-97); member of the Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils (1995-2000); member of the Board of Directors of the Caledonian Research Foundation (1999-); Vice-President of the RSE (1996-99), and Fellowship Secretary (1999-2002); member of Council of the RSE (1996-2002); member of Council, British Academy and Chairman of the Academy’s Linguistics section (1998-2001); President of the International Phonetic Association (1991-95); member of the Council of the Philological Society (1993-98); Honorary Visiting Professor, University of York (1999-2002); member of the International Jury for the Basque Government Euskadi Science Prize for research (2001). Stansfield: Chair of the Committee of Representatives of Education in Speech and Language Therapy; member and Chair of RCSLT Ethics committee (1993-97); member and Chair of the Multi-Disciplinary Health and Care Professions’ Ethics and Legal Group (1995-97); member of the Academic Board of RCSLT (1995-97); member of the Speech and Language Therapy Board of Committee of Professions Supplementary to Medicine (1999-); member of the Quality Assurance Agency Speech and Language Therapy Working Group on Benchmarking Health Professions’ Degrees (2000-01). Waters: Member of Academic Board of RCSLT (1997-). Dean: Member of Academic Board of RCSLT (1994-1997).

15.4. Editorial boards
Hardcastle: Speech Communication; Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics; GOVOR/Speech (Zagreb); Gibbon: Child Language Teaching and Therapy; Asia-Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing; Stansfield: Journal of Fluency Disorders.

15.5. Invited edited books
Hardcastle, W.J. and Laver, J. (eds.) (1997). The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, Blackwell, Oxford (907 pp). Issued in paperback 1999. Hardcastle, W.J. and Hewlett, N. (eds.) (1999). Coarticulation: Theory, Data and Techniques. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (386 pp).

15.6. Invited chapters
Staff wrote 15 invited chapters in edited books, including one by Scobbie in the prestigious Phonology: Critical Concepts: From Rules to Constraints (2000) edited by C. Kriedler.

15.7. Keynote addresses, invited presentations and conferences organised
Gibbon gave keynote addresses to: Speech Pathology Australia National Conference (Sydney, Australia, 1999); 8th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference (Edinburgh, 2000); and gave invited conference presentations to: 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing (Brisbane, Australia, 2000); ASHA Convention (Washington, USA, 2000). Hardcastle gave a keynote address at the 13th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Thessaloniki, Greece, 1999). Laver gave four invited papers: St Catherine’s/Glaxo Wellcome conference (Windsor, 1997); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Cambridge, 1998); Computing in the Academy (King’s College, London, 1998); UK Council for Graduate Schools (1998). Scobbie gave two invited papers: Current Trends in Phonology II (Royaumont, France, 1998); 20th Annual Child Phonology Conference (Bangor, Wales, 1999).
Gibbon and Hardcastle organised the 3rd ELG/EPG Symposium in 1997 at QMUC, which was attended by over 60 national and international delegates. Hewlett organised the 8th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association conference in Edinburgh (2000), which was attended by 138 delegates from the UK and 26 overseas countries. The organisers have secured a contract with Lawrence Erlbaum to publish a book of the proceedings to appear in 2001.

15.8. Journal and research grant reviewing
Staff review for over 20 journals including: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Journal of Phonetics; Aphasiology; International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders; Journal of Intellectual Disability Research; Journal of Child Language; Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics; Language and Speech; Journal of Linguistics; and Phonology. Staff review grant applications for the major UK Government research councils (EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, AHRB), UK charities (Wellcome, Leverhulme, Nuffield, Action Research) and overseas funding bodies (European Commission, Netherlands Council for the Humanities, and Canadian and Australian Research Councils).

15.9. PhD and higher degrees external examining
Beck: University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1996); Trinity College, Dublin (2000); Laver: SOAS (1999); Hardcastle: University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1996); University of Queensland (1997), University of Sheffield (1998), University of Reading (1998), University of Hong Kong (1999), Macquarie University (1999); University of New England, Australia (2001, DSc). Hewlett: University College, London (1999).

In addition to achieving the location of the three new academic centres at QMUC, RAE 11C members have secured research monies from:

Research Councils and National Training Boards – Medical Research Council, United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting, National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting in Scotland, Royal College of Nursing

Government Funding Agencies - Chief Scientist Office, Department of Health, NHS Trusts, Health Boards

International Organisations - World Health Organisation, European Union, Andrew Mellon Foundation USA, MSF Holland, International Council of Nursing

Voluntary and Private Sector Organisations – Nuffield Foundation, National Lottery Charities Board, Chest, Heart and Stroke, Scotland, Alzheimer Scotland, Pfizer.

Ministry of Health, Peru. Invited keynote speaker at conference on Human Resources aspects of health sector reform. November 1999, Lima, Peru. (Buchan)

International Council of Nurses, Biannual World Congress. Paper on flexibility in nursing, June 1999, London. (Buchan)

Emory University, Atlanta. Invited paper on international recruitment of nurses, February 2000, Atlanta, Georgia. (Buchan)

University of Hawaii, School of Nursing, invited as Visiting Scholar. International nursing workforce issues, April 2000, Hawaii. (Buchan)

2nd WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nursing and Midwifery, June 2000, Munich. Invited Keynote speaker (Buchan)

WFOT 12^th International conference, An evaluation of community living skills with people with a mild learning disability, 1998, Montreal. (Nicol)

4^th International multidisciplinary qualitative health research conference, Exploring the meaning of dissatisfaction with health care: towards a grounded theory, February 1998, Vancouver, Canada. (Coyle)

6^th International Multidisciplinary Qualitative Health Research Conference, Exploring the Social Construction of Suicide in the Scottish Print Media, March 2000, Banff, Canada. (Coyle)

2^nd International Health Conference, Valuing people as individuals: developing a measure of person-centredness in health care. August 2000, Pretoria, South Africa. (Coyle)

2^nd International Health Conference. The Unsolicited Diary as a Qualitative Research Tool for Advanced Research Capacity in the Field of Health and Illness, August 2000, Pretoria, South Africa. (Jones)

International Congress of Audiology - Meeting with member of Executive Committee of International Society of Audiology, to raise concerns/implications of new WHO framework for audiological research and practice, The Hague, Netherlands, August 2000 (Kerr).

WONCA Conference - People and their family doctors - partners in care, Can Immunisation non-compliance be predicted?; Immunisation Uptake: is the process the problem?; Immunisation decision making in a culture of low uptake, June 1998, Dublin, Eire. (Woodman - 3 papers).

Examples of National conference presentations include:

Dr Cardosi is a Visiting Professor at the University of Florence (Dipartmento di Sanita Pubblica, Epidemiologia e Chimca Analitica Ambientale); a member of an EPSRC funded Network Chemistry at the Material Interface; a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal Sensors; a contributor to the prestigious ‘Encyclopaedia of Analytical Chemistry’; invited speaker at Electrochem ’98 and ’99; referee for various analytical peer reviewed journals as well as the EPSRC and BBSRC; and has been an external examiner for four PhDs in the review period.

Members of staff have also been honoured by external bodies, in the form of special awards or as invited speakers at international research symposia. Prof Doughty was a keynote speaker at the British Contact Lens Association meeting in 1997. Prof Tomlinson was honoured with the Max Schapero Memorial Award and invited to present the named lecture at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in 1999. Prof Tomlinson was awarded an earned DSc by UMIST in 1999 for his contributions to the development of contact lenses and work on their effect on anterior ocular surface physiology. A PhD student in the Department, Gunter Loeffler, was awarded the Glaxo-Wellcome Prize for the best PhD thesis in neuroscience in the UK in 1999.

Throughout the period of the present RAE, the Department has sought to expand its national and international profile through publications, and collaborations with national and internationally-based researchers. The Department’s strategy has been to encourage its staff to focus their attention on publishing their work in peer-reviewed journals, and especially those considered to have a notable impact. This has resulted in a total 145 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 56 articles in conference proceedings, non-reviewed and professional journals, and 119 presentations at abstracted national and international conferences. In addition 57 presentations have been given at invited seminars and professional continuing education meetings. The overall number of peer-reviewed publications reflects an average of close to 2 papers / research-active staff member / year.

The increasing quality of publications can be seen from the selected papers submitted for each research active member of staff (RA2 Table). The average impact factor is just under 2.0 (average 1.94) for all papers reported in RA2; 71% having factors greater than 1.0 and 37% greater than 2; these key journals include: British J Ophthalmology, Cornea, Current Eye Research, Experimental Eye Research, Eye, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, J of the Optical Society of America A, von Graefes Archives of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Survey Ophthalmology, and Vision Research. However, in a clinically-based unit such as the Department of Vision Sciences, it is also important that many papers are published in clinical research journals, especially the main optometry journals. This is reflected in the similar proportions of articles in optometry and ophthalmology journals; almost half of all reported publications are in these journals. The optometry journals have lower impact factors, which unfortunately presents a false perspective of the importance of these journals to the discipline. Additional papers have also been published in paediatric journals, (e.g. Developmental Medicine Child Neurology, J Intellectual Disability Research, and Acta Paediatrica), and with the commitment of the Department to basic corneal research, articles were also published in tissue structure journals (Tissue & Cell) and biochemistry and toxicology journals (Biochimica Biophysica Acta, Toxicol In Vitro).

Postgraduate students in the Department have made contributions to 60 (42 %) of the research publications in the current RAE cycle and most, after graduation, have continued in research. Drs Murphy and Oliver have taken up academic appointments at GCU. Several other graduates have continued in post-doctoral research elsewhere, including Dr Craig (University of Dundee, then the University of Auckland), Dr Gordon (University of Lancaster, now on staff at Fachbachachule Aalen, Germany), Dr Löeffler (University of Chicago, now at York University, Toronto, Canada), Dr Shepherd (University of Glasgow, now at the University of Stirling), and Dr Simmers (University of Essex, now at Imperial College, London). Others have taken up full-time or part-time teaching and research posts, namely Dr. Gavin (Biological Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University), and Dr McMillan (University of Bradford). Recent graduates (Dr Wells) and two waiting for the outcomes from PhD orals at the census date (Marie Cleary and Andreas Muller) expect to continue with post-doctoral research (at Glasgow Caledonian University, and the University of Auckland respectively). Dr Blades undertook a period of post-doctoral research at the Department before taking a job in industry (Leo Pharmaceuticals Ltd). Two other post-doctoral research associates active in the Department during the current RAE period (namely Dr Herbert and Dr Scott-Brown have continued research at the University of Montreal / University of North Texas and the University of St Andrews / University of Reading respectively. An MPhil graduate, Ms Aakre, a member of staff at the Department of Optometry, in Kongsberg, Norway, is currently registered for a part-time PhD at Glasgow Caledonian University.

The Department has continued to place a high priority on maintaining and developing collaborations with outside institutions. This strategy is designed to expand the knowledge base of the Department, and to increase the quality and quantity of research within the Department. In the period of the current RAE, collaborations occurred with 16 national and 21 international institutions.

Collaborating Institutions:
Anterior Segment
Optometry Departments at City University, UMIST, Indiana University, USA, University of Houston, USA, Southern California College of Optometry, USA, University of Waterloo, Canada, Kongsberg, Norway; Departments of Ophthalmology at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, Harvard University Medical School, (Schepens Eye Research Institute), Boston, USA, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; University Miguel Herandez, Alicante, Spain, University of Madrid, Spain; University of Auckland, New Zealand. Engineering Department University of Dundee; Cornea and Contact Lens Research Unit, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Departments of Bioengineering, Physics and Applied Physics, Pharmacy and Environmental Microbiology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Visual Development
Departments of Ophthalmology, Paediatric Neurology, Child Health and Neonatology, Yorkhill Hospitals NHS Trust, Glasgow; Department of Ophthalmology, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, USA; Brain Research Unit, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Hôpitals Jeanne de Flanders and Roger Salengro, Lille, France; University of Milan and Ospedale S Paolo, Milan, Italy; Pediatric Neurology Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain; Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool; Willink Biochemical Genetics Unit, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.

Dr Guy is a very experienced academic and researcher in immunology and has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His appointment has widened the scientific expertise of the group, and his extensive experience of research has greatly strengthened the infrastructure and management of the work of all BRG members, and especially that of PhD students. Dr Guy has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Immunology for the past 13 years (until June 2000), and is an ad hoc referee for a number of other international journals. He has examined candidates for PhD at London, Edinburgh and Strathclyde universities. Dr Guy has been a regular contributor to Leucocyte Typing Workshops, and has been invited by the organisers to participate in international collaborative laboratory studies on definition of leucocyte differentiation antigens.

Dr Stone is a consultant to the DETR on environmental particles and has been awarded large research and equipment grants from the Colt Foundation and the DETR. A recent instrument grant (~£100,000) purchased a computer-linked quantitative fluorescence microscope which will enable Dr Stone to continue her ground-breaking work on calcium signalling in lung cells exposed to particles, as well as being a core facility that will spawn imaging and related research within the group. The DETR has given Dr Stone the responsibility of managing a very large study involving environmental filter collection, chemical analysis and toxicological testing. Dr Stone referees for journals in the area of toxicology. She has been an invited speaker at the University of Berne, and at these meetings : Studies on Ultrafine Particles (Munich, July 2000), Symposium on Particle Toxicology (Maastricht, October 1999), Particulate Monitor User Group Meeting (Cheltenham UK, November 1998), Effects of Air Pollution on the Paediatric Lung, (Segovia, Spain).

Dr Clouter has obtained a consultancy to the industry consortium on silica hazard in Europe (IMA) and is a consultant to the Health and Safety Executive on ultrafine particles and quartz. She has been a long-standing committee member of the British Association of lung research, the premier organisation for lung researchers in the UK, and this culminated in her being invited to chair the BALR major summer meeting at Napier University in the Summer of 2000. Dr Clouter was a committee member of the Association of Inhalation Toxicologists for 4 years culminating in election to the post of secretary and has also been an external lecturer on MSc courses at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, University of Surrey and the Karolinska Institute and was a rapporteur for a session at the 1999 American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting (San Diego, USA).

6.1 Invitations to Speak at International Conferences Our established staff are regularly on the programmes of international scientific conferences receiving 86 invitations to speak at international meetings since 1.1.96. A small sample, no more than 2 per individual, of the prestigious invitations for 14 staff to speak at international scientific conferences includes: Prof Alderson: XIth Int. Symposium of the Biology of Actinomycetes, Crete, '99; Prof Anderson: 3rd Int. Conference of Environmental Mutagens in Human Populations, Thailand ‘98; 8th Int. Conference of Environmental Mutagens (ICEM), Japan ‘01; Prof Bibby: Symposium: Relevance of Tumour Models in Anticancer Drug Development, Germany, ‘97; EORTC Early Drug Symposium, Austria, ‘99; Dr Brinkworth: 27th Eur. Teratology Soc., Oxford, ‘99; Prof Double: Assoc. Int. Cancer Research, Edinburgh, ‘96; 1st Joint Meeting Amer. Assoc. Cancer Research (AACR) – NCI-EORTC, USA, ‘99; Prof Gardner: 5th Eur. Congress on Autism, Spain, ‘96; 2nd Int. Symposium on Autism, Birmingham, ‘99; Prof Jenkins: Telomeres and Telomerase in Oncology, Italy, ‘99; 43rd Ann. Meeting Biophysical Society, USA, ‘99; Dr Naseem: Eur. Soc. Platelet Research, Germany, ‘99; Dr Phillips: Symposium: Relevance of Tumour Models in Anticancer Drug Development, Germany, ‘97; 6th World Congress on Advances in Oncology, Crete, ‘01; Prof Randall: 10th Int. Congress of Endocrinology, USA, ‘96; Symposium: Androgen-regulated Hair Growth, Germany, ‘00; Prof Schallreuter: New York Academy of Sciences: Cutaneous Neuro-immunomodulation, Germany, ‘98; 48th Ann. Symposium on Biology of Skin, USA, ‘98; Prof Thody: New York Academy of Sciences: Cutaneous Neuro-immunomodulation, Germany, ‘98; Int. Pigment Cell Conference, Japan ‘99; Dr Thornton: 1st Intercontinental Meeting of Hair Research Soc., Australia, ‘97; Dr Tobin: 2nd Intercontinental Meeting of Hair Research Soc., USA, ‘98; The Novartis State-of-the-Art Presentation, Amer. Academy of Veterinary Dermatology, USA, ‘99; Prof Wood: Int. Congress of Dermatology, Germany, ‘98; Int. Conference on Pterins and Folates, Switzerland, ‘99.

6.2 Prizes Our submitted research presentations also receive prizes at international conferences e.g. Best Paper, Int. Pigment Cell Conference, USA, ‘96 (Prof Thody); Microbiology Poster Prize, Pathological Soc. of Great Britain and Ireland '98 (Prof Alderson). Poster Prize, 2nd Int. Hair Research Soc., USA, ‘98 (Prof Randall); Oral Presentation Prize, 9th Eur. Hair Research Soc., Germany, ‘00; (Prof Randall; Dr Thornton). Prof Schallreuter: Prize for Research, the German Vitiligo Society '98.

6.3 Membership of Editorial Boards Staff are, or were pre '96, Editors or Members of the Editorial Boards of 24 journals. Prof Double is the Editor, British Journal of Cancer (Experimental Theraputics) and Mr Timmons (local clinician, see 2.1 in RA5a) was the Editor, British Journal of Plastic Surgery (1994-7), with both editorial offices in the School. Members of Editorial Boards include: Prof Anderson: "In vivo"; Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality; Mutation Research Reviews; Teratogenesis; Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis, previously: Current Awareness in Biological Sciences; Ecology of Disease; Mutation Research Letters; Reproductive Toxicology; Dr Ashraf (not returned as 'research active', see RA6c): Journal of Applied Microbiology; Prof Baker: British Journal of Biomedical Sciences; Prof Bibby: British Journal of Cancer; Prof Gardner: previously Clinical Science; Prof Jenkins: Current Medicinal Chemistry; Anti-Cancer Agents; Electronic Journal of Medicinal Chemistry; Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry; Prof Randall: Journal of Endocrinology; Prof Schallreuter: Pigment Bulletin; Prof Thody: Pigment Cell Research, previously Peptides; Prof Wood: previously Science.

6.4 Edited Research Books Staff have also been invited to edit research books or conference proceedings. Prof Alderson: Evolution of Microbial Life, Society for General Microbiology Symposium, Cambridge University Press, ’96; Biology of exploitable bacteria in the genus Rhodococcus, Special Issue, Antonie van Leeuweehoek: International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, Kluewer Academic Publishers, Netherlands ’98. Prof Anderson: Book Series Co-editor: Current Toxicology, John Wiley (‘98/9/00; 3 in progress), Human Monitoring after Environmental and Occupational Exposure to Chemical and Physical Agents, IOS Press, Amsterdam, ‘00. Prof Double: Telomeres and Telomerase Methods, Molecular Medicine series, Humana Press Inc., Totowa, USA in press. Prof Randall: Hair Research for the Next Millenium, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, ‘96; Hair Biology and its Disorders: Biology, Pathology and Management, Martin Dunitz, London, ‘00.

6.5 Invitations to Contribute Reviews and Chapters Senior staff are regularly invited to contribute reviews or chapters in books; our younger staff are also being recognised by such invitations eg. Dr Arnold: 2 chapters; Dr Brinkworth: review: International Journal of Andrology; 1 chapter; Dr Loadman: review: Journal of Chromatography; Dr Perry: 2 reviews e.g. Expert Opinion on Theraputic Patents; Dr Phillips: 3 reviews e.g. Expert Opinion Investigational Drugs, 2 chapters; Dr Tobin: 3 reviews e.g. Experimental Gerontology, 2 chapters.

6.6 Committee Membership or Officer Posts of Learned Societies etc. During this period staff have also been Committee Members (30) or Officers (9) of learned societies or other important research institutions. These include: Prof Alderson: Convener, Systematics and Evolution Group, Soc. of General Microbiology; Board Member, UK Federation of Culture Collections; Prof Anderson: Eur. Union Scientific Committee for Animal Nutrition (SCAN); Health Advisory Committee, Council of Science and Technology Institute; Brit. Toxicology Soc.; Board of Directors, Amer. Academy of Toxicological Sciences; Int. Ass. Environmental Mutagen Societies Infrastructure Committee. Prof Baker: Council of Institute of Biology; Prof Bibby: EORTC Screening and Pharmacology Group; EORTC Pharmacology and Molecular Mechanisms Group; NCI-EORTC Review Panel for Selection of Potential Anticancer Agents; Prof Double: Treasurer, EORTC; Chairman, NCI-EORTC Review Panel for Selection of Potential Anticancer Agents; Chairman, EORTC Screening and Pharmacology Group; 4 other EORTC Groups; CRC, Phase I/II Drug Development Committee; YCR Scientific Advisory Committee; UK Cancer Research Co-ordinating Committee on the Welfare of Animals in Experimental Neoplasia. (Advisory to the Home Office); Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experimentation Reduction Committee; Dr Graham: Brit. Inflammation Research Association; Prof Gardner: Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee for Allergy-Induced Autism Charity; Dr Harrington: Oral Microbiology and Immunology Group, Brit. Soc. Dental Research; Prof Jenkins: YCR Scientific Advisory Committee; Dr Phillips: Brit. Assoc. Cancer Research; Prof Randall: Chair (1996-1999), Secretary (1992-1996) Eur. Hair Research Soc.; Soc. for Endocrinology Committee/Council of Management for Soc. Journals; Editor, The Endocrinologist (long quarterly newsletter, Soc. for Endocrinology); Brit. Endocrine Societies Liaison Committee; Prof Schallreuter: Medical and Advisory Panel German Vitiligo Soc.; Medical and Advisory Panel Brit. Vitiligo Soc.; Prof Thody: Eur. Soc. for Pigment Cell Research; Chairman, Medical and Advisory Panel, Brit. Vitiligo Soc.

6.7 Scientific Conference Organisation Our staff are regularly invited to chair sessions at national and international conferences. They have also been invited to be the Chair (26) or Members (13) of Organising Committees for important scientific meetings. Prof Alderson: Chair, Soc. for General Microbiology Main Symposioum, Evolution of Microbial Life '96; Symposium: Biology of Exploitable Bacteria in the Genus Rhodococcus '98; Prof Anderson: Organiser/Host of 15 World Health Organisation (WHO) Task Groups/Workshops '96/00. Chair, WHO Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) on Carbon Tetrachloride, '98; Chair, Guidelines for Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Genotoxic Carcinogens at the Workplace, '99; Nato Scientific Study Director, Human Monitoring after Environmental and Occupational Exposure to Chemical and Physical Agents, '99; Vice-Chair, WHO EHC on Human Health Issues Relating to Arsenic Toxicity, '00. Prof Double: Scientific Advisory Committee, AACR-NCI-EORTC Conference: Molecular Targets and Cancer Theraputics, '00: EORTC Biological Therapy of Cancer, '99; EORTC New Drug Development Meeting, Austria, '99; EORTC Scientific Strategy Meeting, '99; 9th, 10th EORTC-NCI Symposia on New Drugs in Cancer Therapy, '96, '98; Prof Gardner: Chairman 1st, 2nd, 3rd Allergy Induced Autism Charity International Conferences, '97, '99, '00; Dr Harrington: Co-organiser, Eur. Oral Microbiology Workshop, '99; Prof Jenkins: Brit. Biophysical Soc. Meeting, '98; Prof Randall: Chair, Brit. Endocrine Soc. Meeting, '97; 1st World Congress of Hair Research, '97; Co-Chair, Royal Soc. Medicine Symposium, '99; Scientific Committee 3rd Int. Hair Research Soc. Meeting, '01; Prof Schallreuter: Eur. Soc. Pigment Cell Research Meeting, '00; Prof Thody: Eur. Soc. for Pigment Cell Research Meeting, '00; Dr Tobin: Eur. Hair Research Soc. Meeting, '99.

Successfully applied for beam time at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble France June 2000. A further invitation to work on the synchrotron has been received.

Invited to examine a PhD thesis at Surrey University, Sept. 2000.

Editorial activity
Blaxter is Senior Editor (Sociology) of Social Science and Medicine with an administrative base in HPP, whilst Reynolds is joint editor of the BMJ publication Evidence Based Mental Health along with Streiner and Szatmari of McMaster University, Toronto. Hart is Associate editor of The Postgraduate Medical Journal and co-editor of the Evidence Based Medicine section of Gut, Adams is an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology and Reading is Section Editor (current literature) of Ambulatory Child Health. A number of staff are members of journal editorial boards: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (Harvey), Journal of Public Health Medicine (Harvey), British Journal of Health Psychology (Pearce), Rheumatology (Scott), Health, Risk and Society (Blaxter), Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal (Blaxter), Medical Education (Leinster), Education for Health (Leinster), Needs Assessment in Health Care (Smith) and Advances in Physiotherapy (Mugford). All members of the School referee regularly for journals and most referee for research programmes, including those of the ESRC, MRC and National NHS R&D. Mugford has jointly compiled a new edition of a widely used reference text on UK birth statistics, Birth Counts.

Committee membership and invited presentations
Blaxter has been a member of Commissioning Groups for ESRC research programmes on Variations in Health and on Risk and Human Behaviour, was an invited contributor to the Acheson Committee on Variations in Health and has been a visiting scholar at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and at Lund and Helsinki universities in Finland. Harvey is a personal member of the MRC Health Services Research Collaboration, an inter-university HSR collaborative group based at Bristol University, and an invited member of the Data Monitoring Committee of the ARC/MRC Clinical Trials Group. Pearce and Mugford are members of the Advisory Board of the MRC. Mugford is joint convenor of the international Cochrane Collaboration Economics Methods Group (with Donaldson, Alberta, Canada), a member of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) appraisals committee and a recent member of National NHS R&D Maternal and Child Health Panel. Reading is an invited member of a joint US/UK working group on Equity in Child Health (report due 2001). Leinster was Visiting Fellow at the University of Cape Town in 1999, Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland in 2001, and was a member of the UK Coordinating Committee on Cancer Research (UKCCCR) Working Party on hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer, and the Working Group on the Treatment of Localised Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS). He is chair of The Association for the Study of Medical Education, and a member of the BMJ Advisory Group on Medical Education. During the RAE period staff have presented at many international conferences including the USA (Harvey, Shepstone, Mugford, Smith, Reynolds, Fowler, Fairweather-Tait, Harrison), South Africa (Mugford, Leinster, Harrison), India, Netherlands and Greece (Scott), Denmark, Chile, Germany and Poland (Fairweather-Tait), Spain (Harrison), Sweden and Japan (Fowler), Australia (Cookson, Leinster, Harrison), Thailand (Smith), Canada (Mugford, Fowler) and Cuba (Mugford). Fairweather-Tait was awarded the British Nutrition Foundation prize in 1997 and has been a member of the Dept of Health Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances. Both she and Johnson are members of the MAFF/DoH Joint Food Standards Panel on Novel Foods. Smith is an expert consultant to the WHO Global Strategy Group for the containment of antimicrobial resistance. Fowler is an invited consultant to trials of cognitive behaviour therapy in the USA and Italy.

Journal Editorships:
Jerosch-Herold is Editor of the British Journal of Hand Therapy. Watson was Editor of Synapse, the biannual journal and newsletter of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists Interested in Neurology (ACPIN) for UK-trained physiotherapists specialising in neurology. Richardson is Associate Editor of Physiotherapy for papers on older people; she was a member of the Scandinavian Executive Committee in Stockholm to develop the journal now established as Advances in Physiotherapy. She is Associate Editor in Physiotherapy for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and in Advances in Physiotherapy. Several staff are on Editorial boards: Chia (Occupational Therapy International and the British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, National Association of Paediatric Occupational Therapists; Professional Care of Mother and Child); Lambert (Journal of the Association of Occupational Therapists in Mental Health), Poland (Quality in Ageing: Research, Policy and Practice) and Steward (British Journal of Occupational Therapy).

Rehabilitation and Human Performance Research International conference presentations: 3 staff were invited to speak at international conferences: Edwards – 3rd International Symposium on Experimental Spinal Cord repair and regeneration (2000); Nester – 9th World Congress of the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics (1998); and Rithalia -European Wound Care Society Conference (1998), Science of Surfaces Symposium on the Evaluation of Support Systems (1999), Wounds 2000 (2000). Other international presentations included: Bowker – 9th World Congress of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (1998); Kenney - 2nd East-West Conference on Information Technology in Design (1996), 9th World Congress of International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (1998), 5th International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society Conference (2000), 1st Conference on Neurosurgical Rehabilitation (2000). Nester – American Society of Biomechanics (2000); European Society Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (2000). International journal editorial boards Edwards, 'Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology'; Rithalia, 'Intensive and Critical Care Medicine', 'Journal of Tissue Viability'. Other international esteem: Edwards, member of Management Board of European Association for Computer Assisted Locomotion By Implanted Electrical Stimulation, 1995–2000. Rithalia, member of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (1997-date). CRPHR hosted an international conference, foot orthotic management of biomechanically related lower limb disorders (2000), and a three-day international conference, biomechanics of the lower limb (to be held in 2001). National Journal Editorial Boards: Rithalia - British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation. National grant refereeing: Bowker, EPSRC and various charities including Action Research. Other national esteem: Bowker, member of the External Advisory Group for the Audit Commission study ('Fully Equipped', 2000). Edwards, Trustee and member of Grants Committee of the charity 'Keep Able'. Rithalia, consultancy with Huntleigh Healthcare Ltd, member of the Royal College of Nursing Institute Risk Assessment Consensus Group and the R&D Conference Committee of the Tissue Viability Society.

Editorial responsibilities. Members of the unit have acted as reviewers for 75 different journals and hold, or have during the past five years held, positions of editorial responsibility on several of these: Dr YA Barnett: Editorial Advisory Board, Exp Gerontol. Prof Downes: Book Reviews Editor, BioEssays. Prof Flatt: Editorial Board, J Endocrinol; Editorial Advisor, Biochem J. Prof Hirst: Deputy Editor, Brit J Radiol. Prof McKenna: Editorial Board, Brit J Biomed Sci and Radiography. Prof Rowland: Editor, Curr Issues Intest Microbiol; Editorial Board, J Appl Microbiol, Brit J Nutr, Microbial Ecol Health Dis, Eur J Nutr; Associate Editor, Nutr Cancer, DOSE (Roy Soc Chem). Prof Strain: Editorial Board, Brit J Nutr, Ann Nutr Metab. Prof Thurnham: Reviews Editor, Brit J Nutr.

Conference Presentations/ Invited Lectures
Staff associated with this submission have disseminated their research findings at a range of clinical/professional group meetings (for example, Physiotherapy Research Society, Society for Rehabilitation Research, Annual Congress of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Congress of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy). Group members have also been invited speakers at a number of international meetings, including Dr. Walsh (US: American Pain Society Annual Conference), Dr. Bradley (US: North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference), Dr. Cramp (US: International Symposium on Acupuncture and Electro-therapeutics) and Prof. Baxter (Japan: Science and Nutrition in Sport and Exercise Conference). During the reporting period, staff have communicated their research findings at national and international scientific conferences and meetings of learned societies (for example, the Physiological Society, the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children).

Prizes/Awards
Dr. Lowe received the ‘best basic science original paper’ prize at the 1999 Conference of the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery. Dr. McDowell’s papers at the 1999 and 2000 European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children Conferences were nominated for best paper prizes. The range of awards that postgraduate students have received is also a reflection of the excellent supervision by staff within this submission: two postgraduates received awards from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy to present at the 13th International Congress of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (Japan, 1999), and a further two received travel grants and a summer studentship grant from the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery.

Membership of Committees
The expertise and profile of staff in this submission are reflected by their representation on executive committees of a number of learned or clinical research societies: the Physiotherapy Research Society (Prof. Baxter and Dr. McDonough); the Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke Association Council (Prof. Allen, Dr. Walsh) and Research Committee (Prof. Allen); Vice-President of the European Medical Laser Association (Prof. Baxter); elected Fellows of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI) and elected members of the Physiological Society (Prof. Allen, Prof. Baxter and Dr. Walsh). In addition, Professors Baxter and Allen served on the Council of the Biomedical Sciences Section of RAMI, and the latter served as President of this section during the reporting period. Prof. Baxter has recently been elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Council for Graduate Education and he is also a Visiting Professor at Coventry University. Prof. Allen serves as a member of DHFETE Postgraduate Awards Advisory Committee. In June 1999, members of the group hosted the summer meeting of the Biomedical Sciences Section of RAMI. Dr. McDowell served as a member of the organising committee for the annual meeting of the European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children, which was held in Belfast in 1998. Prof. Baxter is currently a member of the organising and scientific committees of ‘Laser Florence’, an annual conference in the field of laser therapy.

External Reviewer
Several staff have acted as reviewers for grant applications for a range of bodies including the National Health Executive (Prof. Baxter, Dr. Walsh), Medical Research Council (Prof. Baxter), Health Technology Assessment (Prof. Baxter, Dr. McDonough), the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Dr. Walsh) and the Physiotherapy Research Foundation (Prof. Baxter and Dr. McDonough). Professors Baxter and Allen have acted as external examiner for a number of PhD theses within the UK and Ireland. Traditionally, staff affiliated with the Professions Allied to Medicine do not act as reviewers for ‘scientific’ journals. However, during the reporting period, staff within this submission have acted as reviewers for a number of prestigious journals including Thorax, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Experimental Physiology and Gait and Posture.

Editorial Membership/Book Publications
Since the 1996 submission, two staff have acted as the Editor/Assistant Editor for ‘Physical Therapy Reviews’, an international review journal that is now in its sixth volume (Prof. Baxter and Dr. Walsh). Editorial Board memberships include Prof. Baxter (Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies and Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine and Surgery) and Dr. Walsh (Physiotherapy Ireland). During the reporting period, Dr. Walsh published a textbook on an aspect of her research interests (TENS: Clinical Applications and Related Theory, Churchill Livingstone, 1997, pp167). This text has received positive reviews by clinicians in the field and is viewed as a recommended text for undergraduate physiotherapy education as well as for aspiring researchers on this topic. Dr. Walsh and Prof. Baxter have each published chapters on their respective research areas in an acupuncture textbook (Acupuncture and Related Techniques in Physical Therapy, Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1999) and Prof. Baxter has published a further chapter in Clayton's Electrotherapy (10th ed., WB Saunders, London, 1996). Several staff have conducted consultancy work for a range of commercial bodies that includes the production of clinical guidelines and users’ manuals for electrotherapy devices, and advice on research requirements for the US Food and Drug Administration.

Grants
Grant income has improved since 1996 for both project and studentship funding including a substantial grant under the Joint Research Equipment Initiative scheme, the Wellcome Trust and the project funding from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland previously mentioned.