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Developing non-invasive brain-computer interfaces with optical modalities, creating real time decoding and signal processing BCI software, building AI models to decode human intention and speech

Investigating functional neuroimaging in health and disease specifically role of pharmaco-imaging. Assessing non joint pain in people with rheumatoid arthritis and response to novel treatment with QST and neuroimaging.
Device development-PI for the Wellcome Trust, Translation of Concept Scheme-Institutional Translational Partnership Award (ITPA) developing a novel MR safe quantitative sensory testing device to assess peripheral and central sensitisation in musculoskeletal chronic pain.
Impact of immersive VR on pain processing and pain related patient outcomes.
Interested in understanding and developing Wearable Sensor based Technology and Brain stimulation for treating pain and related phenomenon

My work focusses on the development and use of virtual reality interventions for the management of chronic pain. This includes research into brain-computer interfaces, personalised approaches using sensor-based technologies (eye tracking, EEG, ECG etc), and machine learning.

I have conducted research on pain and its management for over 30 years. Areas of interest include response to electrophysical agents, individuality and pain, perceptual embodiment, epidemiology, pain education, pain and art, community-support-programmes for pain, and painogencity (health promotion). Methodologies include evidence syntheses (e.g., Cochrane reviews, meta-ethnography), human response to stimuli (quantitative sensory testing) and clinical trials. I have a long-standing interest in transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and deliver a distance learning MSc module on Foundation Neuromodulation (implantable devices).

My lab seeks to investigate the multisensory bodily basis for self-consciousness. We do this by creating ‘out of body’ illusions using virtual reality setups, and by measuring the integration of multisensory exteroceptive and interoceptive bodily signals in neurotypical participants, participants with autism, and participants living with chronic pain and depersonalisation.