Dr Craig Childs
Senior Teaching Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Personal statement
Personal statement
Dr Craig Childs is a Teaching Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, with a background in mechanical and biomedical engineering and a doctorate in the application of implanted devices for assisting human movement. He teaches rigid body biomechanics to all levels, focussing on prosthetics, orthotics and sport rehabilitation applications. Dr Childs manages the department's Motek Forcelink CAREN facility, applying his expertise in use of technology (e.g. VR, IMUs) for upper and lower limb rehabilitation, with a particular interest in stability and cognitive load.
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Publications
- Qualitative analysis of the effect of visualisation during stability training for people with chronic ankle instability
- Forsyth Lauren Emma, Childs Craig
- British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Annual Conference (2023)
- Clinical usability of a stability-based package using visualisation : a retrospective analysis
- Forsyth Lauren Emma, Childs Craig
- BioMedEng23 (2023)
- Does post-activation potentiation affect agility performance?
- Docherty Claire, Sykes David, Childs Craig
- BioMedEng23 (2023)
- Does post-activation potentiation affect agility performance?
- Docherty Claire, Sykes David, Childs Craig
- 28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (2023)
- Does post-activation potentiation affect agility performance?
- Docherty Claire, Sykes David, Childs Craig
- Biomedical Engineering Celebration Day 2023 (2023)
- Human-in-the-loop layered architecture for control of a wearable ankle–foot robot
- Martinez-Hernandez Uriel, Firouzy Sina, Mehryar Pouyan, Meng Lin, Childs Craig, Buis Arjan, Dehghani-Sanij Abbas A
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems Vol 161 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2022.104353
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Professional Activities
- Realtime feedback in biomechanics
- Speaker
- 6/6/2018
- Short-term Lower Limb Mechanics During Stair Descent and Downhill Gait in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients
- Contributor
- 7/2017
Projects
- Building Evacuation Dynamics Simulation Pilot Study
- Childs, Craig (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- SGSSS Partnership Agreement | Galbert, Angel
- Buis, Arjan (Principal Investigator) Childs, Craig (Co-investigator) Galbert, Angel (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics & Orthotics | Galbert, Angel
- Buis, Arjan (Principal Investigator) Childs, Craig (Co-investigator) Galbert, Angel (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Game development of a stability-based leaping activity for people with chronic ankle instability
- Forsyth, Lauren Emma (Principal Investigator) Childs, Craig (Principal Investigator)
- Assessing game difficulty and enjoyment for a leaping game using virtual reality
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2020
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Contact
Dr
Craig
Childs
Senior Teaching Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Email: craig.childs@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2228