PARTNERS AND TEAM MEMBERS

Dr Diana (Anna) Jones is the Co-ordinator of the Rescue project. Her doctoral research on self-management strategies in Parkinson’s disease identified the extent of ‘awareness work’ undertaken by individuals to make everyday movement happen. This informed the Northumbria arm of Rescue Phase I, which investigated the links between cognition, fatigue and activity. Other current research in the field of Parkinson’s disease includes two UK Parkinson’s Disease Society funded projects, one establishing the prevalence of speech and swallowing problems and their psychosocial impact, and another involving the setting up of an internet resource for younger people to encourage the maintenance of social roles.

Anna’s work is based in the School of Health, Community and Education Studies at Northumbria University, where she specialises in allied health professions research, practice development and teaching, predominantly in relation to the management of long-term neurological conditions. She has just completed, with colleagues at Northumbria, an evaluation of flagship physiotherapy services for people with multiple sclerosis in the north of England. She was an MS Society advisory group member for the development of guidance to link physiotherapy practice with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) MS guideline, and was involved in scoping of the PD NICE guideline.

Anna is leading on the development of a framework for service user and carer involvement in the education of allied health and other health and social care professionals within her School at Northumbria. She is working with allied health clinicians to establish their training needs in relation to facilitating service user and carer participation in service initiatives.

Anna was a founder member of the Association of Physiotherapists in Parkinson's Disease Europe.

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