FELS Inaugural Lecture with Professor Pete Worsley Event
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- Time:
- 3:30pm
- Date:
- 2025-06-20 15:30:00
- Venue:
- University of Southampton, Centenary Building (100), University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Event details
This was the third event in a series of engaging lectures from newly appointed Professors at the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences. On Friday 20 June 2025, Professor Pete Worsley from the School of Health Sciences and Professor Hanna Kovshoff from the School of Psychology presented their research, real-world impact and future research directions.
Watch the lecture video
Professor Pete Worsley - Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Amputees: research at the interface between engineering and health
See Professor Hanna Kovshoff's lecture here .
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Professor Pete Worsley
Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Amputees: research at the interface between engineering and health
Medical technology and assistive devices are rapidly changing with the emergence of new manufacturing techniques, sensing technology and data analysis. To make this meaningful for health promotion there is a need to work collaboratively to co-design new technologies. Professor Worsley describes his work co-developing new technologies, medical devices and software solutions for healthcare in the UK and overseas, where he has led projects in partnership with healthcare providers, industry and a range of researchers.
He reflects on what has worked well, where improvements to research could facilitate the translation of new technologies and future plans in his field of skin sensing. He talks about the key influences in his career and the people involved in his personal development and growth of research, teaching, and enterprise activities such as co-founding a company (Radii Devices Ltd) and working with international standards groups and national/international clinical advisory panels.
Biography
Pete is a Professor of Assistive Technology and Tissue Health in the School of Health Sciences, at the University of Southampton. He is a qualified physiotherapist (2007) with a PhD in bioengineering (2011), where he developed his interest in medical device innovation. His PhD evaluated functional recovery following knee replacements and this was followed by a post-doctoral project exploring the mechanisms associated with shoulder rehabilitation, both of which were mentored by Professor Maria Stokes. In 2012 he joined Professor Dan Bader to establish a new research group in Skin Health, which he has co-led since 2020.
The group has since been renamed to the ‘Skin Sensing Research Group’ based in the Clinical Academic Facility at Southampton General Hospital. With colleagues he has established a specialist laboratory with clinical research facilities, working with an inter-disciplinary team to evaluate new skin device technologies. His work is funded through major national and international funding bodies, with a focus on co-development and clinical evaluation of novel sensors and skin device interfaces.  He is part of national and international policy groups to enable the translation of assistive technologies in health and social care.