Professor Helen Dawes

Helen Dawes is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Exeter. Helen is co-director of the HealthTech Research Centres’ Rehabilitation theme and actively explores pre-commercialisation of academic research and patents. Helen has a clinical academic background as a physiotherapist and exercise scientist with an ambition to enable people living with conditions affecting their movement to be able to move more. She has been based at Oxford Brookes University working for the Oxford Health BRC and has collaborated with key colleagues at the University of Oxford, McGill, Shanghai Jiao Tong Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Sao Paulo, Drexel, Aarhus, Monash, and Oslo Universities.  Her research involves working closely, with industry, clinicians, and the public, to develop, evaluate and translate transformative innovation to clinical practice. Pre-commercialisation of her Academic research and patents is being explored with a number of UK and International companies. In her role, Helen will be exploring the development of effective personalised, scalable, rehabilitation innovations to address the growing global need.