Annette Bishop

Biography

Annette is a physiotherapist and Senior Research Fellow who has worked at Keele University since 2003, following 20 years as a clinical research physiotherapist. Her first post at Keele was a research physiotherapist and following completion of her PhD, investigating the role of health care practitioner attitudes and beliefs on their clinical practice, she was a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Fellow in Muscuoloskeletal Intervention Studies.  

Annette has served on a number of committees and has held roles within the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and is currently a member of the CSP's Primary Care Reference panel. 

Annette is a member of the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit West Midlands Regiona Advisory Panel and associate editor of the primary physiotherapy journal in the UK, 'Physiotherapy'. 

Research and scholarship

Annette leads the Health Services and Outcomes research group within the Research Institute, bringing together staff and PhD students whose work focusses on, or includes, this topic. The research group has been particularly active in generating new PhD proposals and supporting new PhD students. 

Annette lead the RI's research portfolio in health services research and specifically the role of inter-disciplinary working in primary and community care. She has recently been awarded a £210,000 grant from Arthritis Research UK to continue this research. 

In addition, she has extensive experience of large clinical studies and has contributed to the successful delivery of large pragmatic clinical trials in physiotherapy telephone assessment and advice (PhysioDirect trial) and vocational advice in primary care for patients with musculoskeletal pain (SWAP) trial.

Annette lead the first phase of a feasibility and pilot trial investigating acupuncture for pregnancy related back pain (EASE Back study) and was the principal investigator for a large pilot trial of patient direct access to physiotherapy in the NHS (STEMS trial). 

Teaching

• Supervision of MSc and PhD students.

• Year 3 medical students: Student selected component 'Research, what every doctor need to know'. Co-lead. 

• Year 1 medical students: Randomised controlled trials - small group facilitation.