Research Activities

Health & Rehabilitation Research Institute themes

• Person Centred Research (Associate Professor Nicola Kayes)
• Pain and Musculoskeletal Conditions Research Group (Professor Peter McNair)
• Ergonomics and Human Factors (Professor Mark Boocock)
• Neurological Rehabilitation (Prof. Denise Taylor)
• Active Living and Rehabilitation: Aotearoa New Zealand (Associate Professor Richard Ellis)

Overview

This Institute adopts a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to further knowledge on the health and rehabilitation of people with injury and/or illness. Its objectives are to:

• advance knowledge in the field of health and rehabilitation through high quality innovative research;
• foster collaborative health and rehabilitation research into prevention, restoration and adaptation associated with illness and injury;
• explore the impact of disease and impairment for people and their family/whanau in their ability to participate in activities and roles that are important to them;
• encourage students to undertake research in health and rehabilitation;
• to promote and disseminate the findings of health and rehabilitation research at a national and international level.