Academic Industrial Partnership
On 30th June 2010, Codamotion announced an academic-industrial partnership between QMUL and Charnwood Dynamics Limited (Codamotion's parent company). The partnership will fund a post of Research Assistant in Sports and Exercise Medicine for the EPSRC-funded (KTA programme) project, which will be entitled, 'Multi-purpose whole body motion capture'.
The Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine is a part of the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London. This internationally renowned Centre offers undergraduate and postgraduate education for doctors and physiotherapists and is involved in the delivery of medical provision for, and the legacy of, the London 2012 Olympics. The Centre is actively involved in three main research themes: exercise as a health tool (2012 legacy delivery), mechanisms and management of tendinopathy and a series of studies investigating the link between movement and pathology. This position concerns the third of these and will be hosted in our well-equipped Human Performance Laboratory.
The appointee will be responsible for a specific project that will deliver improved motion capture protocols in clinical and research settings therefore resulting in better patient management, and potentially extending the research / clinical remit of motion analysis. This application will further build the collaboration between SEM and SEMS in delivering in-vivo collaborative biomechanical projects. It will extend our ability to measure the interaction between movement and pathology to a wider range of situations. Further, the application extends our links with the industrial sector and brings shared expertise to bear on technological and procedural challenges.
For more information about the centre, see www.qmul.ac.uk.