About
Jill Ramsay is the Programme director for the undergraduate physiotherapy programme in the School of Health and Population Sciences.
Jill has a particular interest in developing interactive educational activities, both in delivering teaching and learning opportunities and in assessment. Jill has experience in programme development, course evaluation and design together with quality monitoring.
Jill has particular interests in Neurological rehabilitation, seating and upper limb activity and infection control.
Qualifications
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2007
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PhD in Neurological Rehabilitation 2001 University of Birmingham
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BA (Open)1986
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Diploma for Teachers of Physiotherapy 1982
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Cert Ed (FE) 1981
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Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy with registration with Health Professions council 1976
Biography
Jill Ramsay qualified as a Physiotherapist in 1976. She worked clinically in the NHS in London, Oxford and Solihull before moving into physiotherapy education in 1980.
Jill returned to clinical work in 1988 working as a domiciliary physiotherapist in Essex then moving back to Physiotherapy education in 1991.
Jill has experience in programme and module development, delivery, assessment and evaluation both at undergraduate and post graduate level. Contributing to the successful validations of the BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy programme from 1980 to date and the MSc Physiotherapy (pre reg) full time programme in 2004.
Jill has also successfully developed the suite of neurological rehabilitation post registration modules.
Teaching
Postgraduate supervision
Jill is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
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Neurological rehabilitation particularly upper limb activity
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Seating, posture and upper limb work disorders
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Jill on the contact details above, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: dr@contacts.bham.ac.uk or call +44 (0)121 414 5005.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.
Research
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
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Seating and upper limb disorders In Dentists
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Improving Infection control teaching in the undergraduate curriculum
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Benefits for the service user and student in Service user involvement in the curriculum
Other activities
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External examiner MSc Physiotherapy (pre reg) and MSc Physiotherapy studies at Teesside University
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Previous external examiner MSC Health Sciences, advanced Musculoskeletal management and Stroke rehabilitation UEA 2007-2010
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Member of the review panel for the Stoke guidelines 2008 and 2011
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CSP West midlands network representative (formally West Midlands Board)
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Jill maintains her clinical activity as a bank Physiotherapist at a local independent hospital (1992-date)
Publications
Hoppitt T., Pall H., Calvert M., Gill P., Yao G., Ramsay J., James G., Conduit J., Sackley C. A Systematic Review of the Incidence and Prevalence of Long-Term Neurological Conditions in the UK Neuroepidemiology 2011;36:19-28.
Soundy A;Smith B;Dawes H;Pall H;Gimbrere K;Ramsay J; Patients expression of hope and illness narratives in three neurological conditions: a meta-ethnography Health Psychology Review In press 2011
Jones D, Turner M, Singleton C, Ramsay J. A study analysing inconsistent responses from people with multiple sclerosis in a recent national audit. Disability and Rehabilitation May 21:1-9 2009
Ramsay J.R.E., Rea S., Douglin T., James G. Seated interface pressures: A pilot study to compare seated pressure distribution on a flat seat and saddle seat. European seating symposium Dublin 2009.
Gandavadi A Ramsay JRE Burke FJT. Assessment of Dental Student Posture in Two Seating Conditions using RULA methodology: Pilot study. British Dental Journal 203,10. Nov 24 2007 601-605
Gandavadi A Ramsay JRE Burke FJT Assessment of dentist posture in two seating conditions conference paper Australian physiotherapy conference Cairns 2007
Gandavadi A Ramsay JRE Burke FJT Assessment of muscle activity of dental students using surface electromyography and changes in muscle activity over a 6 Month period conference paper Australian physiotherapy conference Cairns. 2007
Ramsay JRE Davies Lindfield H Practice in observation: developing observational skills in Physiotherapy students Conference paper Practice makes perfect conference Education of Health Professionals in Community, Clinical and Simulated Settings Vancouver. 2007