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Research output per year
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Professor of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, University of Manchester
Joint theme lead: Rehabilitation and Living With Disability, Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre https://gjbrainresearch.org/
Neurorehabilitation with a special interest in stroke. My research aims to improve services for people with neuropsychological impairments and communication difficulties, and informal carers. These resulted in successful research impact cases in the UK's REF2021 and REF2014.
Active research projects (UPDATE PENDING):
Wright-Hughes A (CI), et al. Bowen A (Co-Applicant). Initial steps in the development of a core outcome set (COS) for the treatment and prevention of post-stroke psychological problems. TMRP Mental Health Mission Project Funding. £36K. 2024-2025.
Rossit S (Lead Applicant), et al. Bowen A (Co-Applicant). Spatial Inattention Grasping Therapy (SIGHT) for rehabilitation of spatial neglect poststroke: a randomised-control multicentre efficacy trial with embedded mechanistic study of determinants of therapy response. NIHR EME Stage 2, £1,252,065, 2025-2028.
Bowen A (CI), Thomas S, Chouliara N, Cotterill S, Hill G, Bamford A, Longley V, Conroy P, Zadik J, Patchwood E. Upskilling a workforce to deliver inclusive, accessible psychological support after stroke (the WAterS-2 study). Stroke Association, £225,766. 2023–2025.
Mancuso M (CI), et al. Bowen A (Co-I). Rehabilitation and Polymorphisms in Regione Toscana - RE.PO.R.T. E735K euros, 2021 – 2025.
Completed projects being disseminated:
Lucas L. (Supervisor: Bowen A). Postgraduate Fellowship. Understanding therapeutic alliance in supported self-management in community stroke services. Stroke Association £115K, 2021-24. https://www.stroke.org.uk/research/how-does-relationship-between-therapist-and-stroke-survivor-affect-stroke-recovery
King A/Tyrrell P (CI), et al. Bowen A (Co-I). Does Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Improve Outcome following aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (aSAH)? NIHR EME £2.1M, 2017-2024 https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/14/209/07
Radford K (CI), et al. Bowen A (Co-I). Return to work after stroke. NIHR HTA £1.8M, 2017-2023 https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/15/130/11
Harcourt B, Brown R and Bowen A. Informal caregiving following stroke: a qualitative exploration of carer self-identification, care-related language and support experiences. 2021-2024. Unfunded ClinPsyD, Univerity of Manchester.
Bowen A (CI), Williams L. Towards evidence-based consensus on how spatial neglect is identified after stroke. Wellcome EDI Enhancing Research Culture Placements. £3,096, 2023.
Mitchell C, Kirkham J (joint CIs), et al. Bowen A (Co-I). Development of a core outcome set for clinical research on interventions for speech impairments in Stroke: COS-Speech. NIHR RfPB, £117K, 2022-2023. https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR202748
Longley V, Bowen A (lead CI), Edge D, Cheyne J, Naicker R, Zadik J, Bamford A, Rickard S, Kwaku-Odoi C and Ahmad M. A rapid review of Health Inequalities after stroke. Stroke Association, £7K, 2022-2023.
Patchwood E (CI), Hill G, Vail A, Bowen A (CoI). Development and feasibility trial of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Stroke Association PDF £175K, 2019-2022 https://www.stroke.org.uk/research/development-and-early-testing-group-based-psychological-support-life-after-stroke
Clatworthy P (CI), et al. Bowen A (Co-I). Hemianopia Activity-Based InTervention (HABIT): for visual field loss after stroke. NIHR RfPB £160K, September 2019-2022. https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/PB-PG-0418-20040
Gittins M (CI) et al. Improving patient outcomes and experience – translating stroke research expertise to Vestibular Schwannoma. Wellcome Trust Institutional Translational Partnership Award (iTPA) – Access to Expertise (A2E), 2020-2021
SCOPE (Strategies to COPE with cognitive difficulties after stroke). Stroke Association John Marshall Memorial Readership Award, (Bowen personal award) 2015-2020 http://www.stroke.org.uk/research/stroke-association-john-marshall-memorial-reader-award-dr-audrey-bowen
A feasibility Study of Prisms And Therapy In Attention Loss after stroke (SPATIAL feasibility). NIHR RfPB, Bowen A (CI), et al. 2018-20 https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/spatial/
http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN88395268
Completed research projects:
include RCTs evaluating effectiveness of therapy (e.g. SPATIAL, OSCARSS, Big CACTUS, ACT NoW); observational studies of current practice (dementia and stroke, therapy provision, six month reviews, oral care); systematic review/meta-analysis of existing evidence (e.g. unilateral neglect, dysarthria); psychometric development of new patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) to evaluate therapy (e.g. COAST, Carer COAST, PRECiS). See publications.
The PROMs can be downloaded free via Innovation Factory e.g. COAST - University of Manchester - Innovation Factory (uominnovationfactory.com)
Patient, carer and public involvement:
Our research benefits from partnership working with stroke survivors and carers in study-specific research user groups (RUGs) e.g. ACT NOW (aphasia & dysarthria), EverReady (dysarthria), OSCARSS (carers), SPATIAL (neglect/inattention), WATERS (well-being), HEARD (dysarthria) and LEG (self-management).
Our co-authored paper from the carer advisory group on the OSCARSS trial is here https://researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40900-020-00193-7
For Annette's powerful 'living with dysarthria' blog http://www.evidentlycochrane.net/living-with-dysarthria-after-stroke/
ACT NoW publications and aphasia-friendly resources can be downloaded http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/actnow
Coming soon, reports from the stroke survivor advisory group for the Cochrane review of spatial neglect/inattention and a co-authored paper from the SPATIAL trial advisory group. The easy acccess report and poster/video presentations from the SPATIAL advisory group are here https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/spatial/
I provide undergraduate and postgraduate teaching including research project supervision and an academic advisor role across various programmes: BSc psychology, BSc cognitive neuroscience and psychology, MSc clinical and health psychology, ClinPsyD.
External Committees
2013 Chartered member of the British Psychological Society
2002 Fellow (FHEA) Advance HE
1999 Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society
1998 PhD, University of Leeds
1992 MSc Experimental and Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Wales
1987 BA Psychology, National University of Ireland
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Peters, S. (PI), Ulph, F. (PI), Arden Armitage, C. (Researcher), Borrelli, B. (Researcher), Bowen, A. (Researcher), Byrne-Davis, L. (Researcher), Edge, D. (Researcher), French, D. (Researcher), Hart, J. (Researcher), Todd, C. (Researcher), Skevington, S. (Researcher), Wearden, A. (Researcher), Cotterill, S. (Researcher), Brooks, J. (Researcher), Brown, L. (Researcher), Bull, E. (Researcher), Cordingley, L. (Researcher), Epton, T. (Researcher), Smith, D. (Researcher), Speer, S. (Researcher), Powell, R. (Researcher), Bartlett, K. (Researcher), Coupe, N. (Researcher), Shepherd, S. (Researcher), Dienes, K. (Researcher), Ghio, D. (Researcher), Hood, A. (Researcher), Lavallee, J. (Researcher), Rowland, C. (Researcher), Benton, J. (Researcher), Goldthorpe, J. (Researcher), McWilliams, L. (Researcher), Keyworth, C. (Researcher), Goulding, R. (Researcher), Loughran, M. (Researcher), Hawkes, R. (Researcher), Kapadi, A. (Researcher), Hurley, R. (Researcher), Leather, J. (Researcher), Musa, C. (Researcher), Angelakis, I. (Researcher), Reid, C. (Researcher), Reid, H. (PGR student), Hulme, L. (PGR student), Hindmarch, S. (PGR student), Plant, S. (Researcher), Peterson, J. (Researcher), Woof, V. (PGR student), Devereux-Fitzgerald, A. (Researcher), Sawyer, C. (Researcher), Wilkes, J. (Researcher), Birtwell, K. (Researcher), Stringer, G. (Researcher), Tang, M. Y. (Researcher), Coupe, N. (Researcher), Hamnett, C. (Support team), Lyons, S. (Researcher), Hulme, L. (PGR student) & Lee, R. (Researcher)
1/09/10 → …
Project: Research
Bowen, A. (PI), Peters, S. (CoI) & Cotterill, S. (CoI)
1/10/21 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
King, A. (PI), Bowen, A. (CoI), Hulme, S. (CoI), Sibley, C. (CoI) & Vail, A. (CoI)
1/02/18 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
Smith, C. (PI), Bowen, A. (CoI), O'Malley, L. (CoI) & Tyrrell, P. (CoI)
4/09/17 → 3/09/19
Project: Research
Tyson, S. (PI), Bowen, A. (CoI), Gittins, M. (CoI) & Vail, A. (CoI)
1/04/16 → 31/07/18
Project: Research
Bowen, A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Bowen, A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Bowen, A. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee › Research
Bowen, A. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee › Research
Bowen, A. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of grants peer review panel › Research
Bowen, A. (Participant), Patchwood, E. (Participant), Vail, A. (Participant), Hesketh, A. (Participant), Boaden, R. (Participant) & Tyrrell, P. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing, Society and culture
Mitchell, C. (Creator), Bowen, A. (Creator), Tyson, S. (Creator) & Conroy, P. (Creator), figshare , 20 Jul 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3832369
Dataset
Longley, V. (Contributor), Peters, S. (Contributor), Swarbrick, C. (Contributor) & Bowen, A. (Contributor), figshare , 28 Mar 2018
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.4052324.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/What_influences_decisions_about_ongoing_stroke_rehabilitation_for_patients_with_pre-existing_dementia_or_cognitive_impairment_a_qualitative_study_/4052324/1
Dataset