Associate Professor Chris Barr

Associate Professor

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

place Tonsley Building (2.12)
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Associate Professor Chris Barr BSc(hons) MRes PhD is a Bioengineer, teaching and researching in Clinical Rehabilitation in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Chris completed his PhD in Kinematic Analysis of the Osteoarthritic Knee at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He supervises a wide range of projects locally, nationally and internationally in Exercise Therapy and New Technologies in Rehabilitation, specialising in gait and motion analysis.

Qualifications
BSc (hons) Physiology, Sports Science and Nutrition (University of Glasgow, UK)
MRes Bioengineering (University of Strathclyde, UK)
PhD Bioengineering -  Kinematic Analysis of the Osteoarthritic Knee (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Supervisory interests
Balance
Exergaming in rehabilitation
Gait
Physical activity
Higher degree by research supervision
Current
Principal supervisor: Wearable technology in clinical populations (1), Telehealth (1), robotic rehabilitation and cardiovascular work (1)
Associate supervisor: New technologies in rehabilitation (1)
Completion
Principal supervisor: Assessing neglect using TMS (1)
Associate supervisor: Special seating prescription (1), novel assessment of gait and mobility function in transtibial amputees (1)