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Aiming to make a difference to young lives
Rachel Kennedy received a 2019 Physiotherapy Research Foundation Seeding Grant to assist her study into falls in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.
Growth of research funds is the focus for new chair
The Grants Review Committee has a new chair after the appointment of Associate Professor Cathy Said to the role at the end of last year.
Putting a passion for supporting researchers to work
The PRF Grants Review Committee has five new members, and one of them, Verity Pacey, talks to Skye Mitchell about her new appointment.
Back to the future
It has been described as Australian physiotherapy’s coming of age—a golden era during which saw Sydney host the 10th World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress and the subsequent emergence of the Physiotherapy Research Foundation. Next month, the impact of those two combined events in the ‘80s will be felt on the world stage.
Seeding grant helps Rebekah grow
PRF Seeding Grant recipient Rebekah Das began her career as a rural physiotherapist and, after several major career incarnations, she now runs a small musculoskeletal physiotherapy clinic in New Delhi, India, with her husband.