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Biography
Professor Pip Logan obtained her first degree, an Occupational Therapy BSc, in 1985 from the University of Derby. She then undertook her MPhil at the University of Nottingham in 1994, which was a community-based randomised controlled trial of occupational therapy for stroke patients. In 2004 she gained her PhD at the University of Nottingham, a randomised controlled trial evaluating an outdoor mobility intervention for stroke patients. She has received two NIHR fellowships, and is the Chief Investigator for a £1.8 million National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) HTA research grant which is exploring falls in care homes. She also works clinically for Nottingham City Care Partnership (NHS) in the community rehabilitation team and in the Acute Hospital for the Health Care of the Elderly Directorate
Expertise Summary
Keywords:
Multi-centre randomised controlled trials, occupational therapy, stroke, older people, falls, community, reducing the length of hospital stays
Teaching Summary
Dr Logan teaches on the MSc in Rehabilitation, on the stroke module. She also teaches undergraduate medical students, as well as research skills to nurses, therapists, and technical instructors… read more
Research Summary
Professor Logan is an occupational therapist whose research is mainly concerned with health services rehabilitation, with particular emphasis on the community. She is an expert in leading randomised… read more
Dr Logan teaches on the MSc in Rehabilitation, on the stroke module. She also teaches undergraduate medical students, as well as research skills to nurses, therapists, and technical instructors within the NHS. She supervises PhD and MSc students in rehabilitation and provides pastoral tutoring for undergraduate medical students.
Current Research
Professor Logan is an occupational therapist whose research is mainly concerned with health services rehabilitation, with particular emphasis on the community. She is an expert in leading randomised controlled trials of rehabilitation services and individual techniques. For example, she has recently completed a study that compared a new outdoor mobility intervention for people with stroke against the routine therapy. The results are used clinically and have been incorporated in stroke clinical guidelines. This type of research has a direct impact on what therapists provide for patients each day. Her latest study has demonstrated that falls in older adults who live in care homes can be reduced by 43%. This is the largest care home study compelted in teh UK.
Community rehabilitation is a complex intervention that involves professionals from Health Care, Social Care, voluntary groups and, most importantly, carers. Accordingly, she includes service users in her research designs, steering groups and dissemination plans.
She also maintains a clinical role within Nottingham CityCare Partnership providing rehabilitation for adults within the community.