Mrs Jilly Bond
PhD Student
Summary
Jilly is a Doctoral Researcher in the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences. She divides her time between working clinically with people with pelvic pain, research and postgraduate teaching. Jilly's research interests include sensorimotor distortion in pelvic pain, visceral perception and graded sensorimotor retraining. She is currently using mixed methods to explore sensorimotor distortions in women with persistent pelvic pain. Her supervisory team includes Prof Neil O'Connell, Dr Elmar Kal, Dr Vicky MacBean and Dr Jane Chalmers (University of South Australia).
After nearly a decade in the NHS she led a private hospital pelvic health service and then developed her own clinic. She received her masters degree in 2017, looking at self-efficacy in pelvic pain treatment. She has sat on both the executive committee for the UK Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy specialist interest group, the POGP Journal, is a member of the British Society of Urogynaecology (BSUG) AHP committee, is a regular speaker at international conferences and runs live and online professional development courses for physios. Her Youtube channel has free resources for patients and clinicians.
If you're interested in pelvic pain she'd love to hear from you.