Christopher Nester#
| Membership Number: | 6363 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1688-320X |
| Twitter: | @chrisnester10 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Professor of Rehabilitation, School of Allied Health Professions, University of Keele, UK
- 2020 - present Director, Great Foundations Research Charity, administered by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London UK
- 2021 - present Health Sciences PhD committee, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Málaga, Spain
- 2008 - 2022, Lead Research Professor, Directorate of Public and Allied Health Professions, School of Health & Society, University of Salford
- 2018 - 2022 Academic Director, Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics, University of Salford
- 2004 - 2008, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Rehabilitation, University of Salford
Fields of Scholarship
- Foot health
- Allied health professions
- Biomechanics
- Physical therapy research
- Doctoral training
- Lower limb health
- Applied health research
Honours and Awards
- Awarded Personal Chair in 2008, aged 34, University of Salford, UK
- 2007 - 2015 Visiting Professor Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- 2015 - present Visiting Professor La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2019 Representative of the Royal College of Podiatry in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework
- 2020 First Podiatrist to be member of Research Excellence Framework 2021 on panel “Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy”
- 2020 External member of the Health Sciences Doctoral programme committee, for the Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Málaga, Spain
