Mrs Sarah Day
Senior Teaching Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Personal statement
Mrs Day is a Teaching Fellow within the National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics. She teaches biomechanics and clinical skills to undergraduate and postgraduate students to prepare them for work within the Prosthetic and Orthotic industry, and supervises postgraduate engineering students in their research degrees. Her main teaching and research interests are in upper limb prosthetics, focusing on the ways that technology can be integrated with the user to improve quality of life. She is currently researching the link between amputation incidence and prosthetic referral/usage rates, and has a keen interest in fabrication methods and material technology. Sarah has authored two book chapters and has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is a respected educator and an Auditor of Education Pathways for the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO). Having spent many years working overseas Sarah is aware of the worldwide skill shortage in Prosthetics and Orthotics and has developed a program of Short Courses and CPD to meet some of these needs.
Prize And Awards
- Top 50 Women in Engineering 2022: Inventors & Innovators Finalists
- Recipient
- 22/6/2022
- ISPO auditor
- Recipient
- 1/8/2021
- Cordaid Social Adventure
- Recipient
- 8/12/2015
- The Legbank initiative
- Recipient
- 19/11/2015
Publications
- An ex vivo animal model to study the effect of transverse mechanical loading on skeletal muscle
- Sargent Marisa, Wark Alastair W, Day Sarah, Buis Arjan
- Communications Biology Vol 7 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05994-0
- A literature review of the causes of congenital limb deficiencies over the last 20 years
- Shivers Emma, Day Sarah
- Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics Vol 36, pp. e8-e17 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1097/JPO.0000000000000444
- Partial hand prosthetics : the decision-making behind the prescription
- Carlyle Kirsty, Day Sarah, Buis Arjan, Donovan-Hall Margaret
- Bionic Reconstruction Conference (2023)
- Investigating experiences of clinicians working with partial hand prosthetics
- Carlyle Kirsty, Day Sarah, Buis Arjan
- Prosthetics and Orthotics International Vol 47, pp. 265-265 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1097/PXR.0000000000000240
- Outcome measures used to assess hand activity in amputee and intact populations : a literature review
- Carlyle Kirsty, Day Sarah
- Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal Vol 5 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v5i2.39023
- Clinical and nonclinical factors affecting quality of life in individuals with lower-limb amputation
- Qa'dan Wa'el Nafith, Damhoureyeh Mohammad, Day Sarah
- Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics Vol 34, pp. 246-251 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1097/JPO.0000000000000417
Teaching
I am responsible for teaching the Upper Limb Biomechanics and Control Concepts, and Upper Limb Prosthetics classes within our BSc(Hons) Prosthetics & Orthotics course, as well as other classes such as Transtibial Prosthetics and Human Biological Sciences. I also teach Research Methodology to postgradute students and supervise a number of undergraduate and postgraduate student projects.
I have an interest in shape capture and CAD, and have been leading the intergration of these into P&O teaching to reflect modern clinical practice.
Professional Activities
- Second CDT in P&O conference. "future of P&O"
- Organiser
- 30/11/2023
- |Supervisor meeting
- Organiser
- 29/11/2023
- Womanthology - Issue 170, Women in Medicine and Health
- Recipient
- 25/10/2023
- BAPO Regional Event Scotland
- To be assigned
- 16/6/2023
- 19th ISPO World congress
- Chair
- 25/4/2023
- Scottish Women in Tokyo. Blog 66: Behind the Scenes
- Interviewee
- 28/8/2021
Projects
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2017 | Carlyle, Kirsty
- Day, Sarah (Principal Investigator) Buis, Arjan (Co-investigator) Carlyle, Kirsty (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics & Orthotics | Carlyle, Kirsty
- Day, Sarah (Principal Investigator) Buis, Arjan (Co-investigator) Carlyle, Kirsty (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- Upcycled Plastic Prosthetics (UPP)
- Buis, Arjan (Principal Investigator) Day, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
- LegBank project Google
- Buis, Arjan (Principal Investigator) Day, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- 29-Jan-2016 - 28-Jan-2019
- ADAM - Anthromorphic Design through Advanced Manufacturing
- Day, Sarah (Principal Investigator) Buis, Arjan (Principal Investigator)
- EPSRC awarded £269,486
- 14-Jan-2016 - 13-Jan-2017
- Majicast
- Buis, Arjan (Principal Investigator) Day, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2016
Contact
Mrs
Sarah
Day
Senior Teaching Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Email: sarah.day@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4034