Staff profile

• - Patient and public involvement and engagement
• - The relationship between physical activity, identity and wellbeing
• - Kinship, ritual, grief and loss
• - Developmental evaluation and contribution analysis
• - Research governance and culture

• 2023: Sutasoma Award: The Sutasoma Award was awarded by the Trustees of the Radcliffe-Brown Fund in recognition of research of potentially outstanding merit.

Journal Article

• Organ donation for research purposes: a qualitative focus group study on the views of donor families, transplant recipients and heart failure patients in the UK.
  
  Louca, J. O., Asemota, N., Thren, J., Manara, A., Bhagra, S., Wang, L., Bargehr, J., Burton, N., Burton, S., Rockell, K., Nuñes, J. P., White, P., Berman, M., Pettit, S., Rubino, A., Reyahi, A., Large, S., Sinha, S., Wilson, C., … Wilson, C. (2025). Organ donation for research purposes: a qualitative focus group study on the views of donor families, transplant recipients and heart failure patients in the UK. BMJ Open, 15(12), Article e107992. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-107992
• NGS-Panel Diagnosis Developed for the Differential Diagnosis of Idiopathic Toe Walking and Its Application for the Investigation of Possible Genetic Causes for the Gait Anomaly
  
  Pomarino, D., Emelina, A., Heidrich, J., Rostásy, K., Schirmer, S., Schönfeldt, J. O., Thren, A., Wagner, F., Thren, J. R., & Berger, N. (2023). NGS-Panel Diagnosis Developed for the Differential Diagnosis of Idiopathic Toe Walking and Its Application for the Investigation of Possible Genetic Causes for the Gait Anomaly. Global Medical Genetics, 10(02), 063-071. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-57230
• Toe Walking as the Initial Symptom of a Spinocerebellar Ataxia 13 in a Patient Presenting with a Mutation in the KCNC3 Gene
  
  Pomarino, D., Thren, J. R., Thren, A., Rostasy, K., & Schoenfeldt, J. (2022). Toe Walking as the Initial Symptom of a Spinocerebellar Ataxia 13 in a Patient Presenting with a Mutation in the KCNC3 Gene. Global Medical Genetics, 9(1), 51-53. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736483