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Professor Neil O'Connell
Professor - Evidence-Based Healthcare

Mary Seacole 3rd Floor-Bay 19

  • Physiotherapy
  • Physiotherapy and Physician Associate

Research area(s)

Chronic low back pain, chronic pain, evidence based practice, systematic reviews.

Research Interests

Neil's main research interest is in persistent pain, with a specific focus on evaluating the effectiveness of clinical interventions for people in pain. He is also interested in methodological aspects of evidence synthesis.

Research grants and projects

Research Projects

Grants

ENTRUST-PE : Enhancing Trust in Pain Evidence
Funder: ERA-NET NEURON Cofund 2
Duration: September 2023 - August 2024

The personal, social and economic burden of chronic pain is enormous. Yet patients with chronic pain, clinicians and the public are often poorly served by an evidence architecture that contains multiple structural weaknesses which reduce confidence in treatment practice. Weaknesses include incomplete research governance, inadequate stakeholder engagement, poor methodological rigour and incomplete reporting, a lack of data accessibility and transparency, and a failure to communicate findings with appropriate balance (without spin). These issues span pre-clinical research, clinical trials, systematic reviews and impact on the development of clinical guidance and practice update. Research misconduct presents a further critical risk. Combined, these weaknesses serve to increase uncertainty in this highly challenging area of study and practice, drive the provision of low value care, increase costs and impede the discovery of more effective solutions. The central objective of our proposed network is to develop ENTRUST-PE, a novel integrated framework for enhancing and facilitating the trustworthiness of evidence for chronic pain. This will involve identifying and synthesising a range of available resources into a common framework that supports researchers, editors and publishers to minimise threats to the trustworthiness of pain research.

Pain management in liminal spaces - ESRC STUDENTSHIP - DIARMUID DENNENY
Funder: Economic & Social Research Council
Duration: October 2021 - September 2028
Physical Activity and Dementia Evidence Review
Funder: Dementia UK
Duration: 2021 -
PhD studentship - Optimising Exercise Prescription for People living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Funder: University of Oxford
Duration: October 2017 - September 2023
A Systematic Review of Lifestyle and Cancer
Funder: Macmillan Cancer Support
Duration: November 2015 - May 2016

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