Dr Harriet Shannon was a co-applicant on a successful funding bid for £250,000 from the UCL Rosetrees Stoneygate Prize 2017 for ‘Project Fizzyo’. This unique project is working to develop and implement a sustainable remote monitoring platform for clinicians and researchers, facilitating improvements in physiotherapy adherence, prescription and prediction of clinical outcomes in children and young people with cystic fibrosis. The award provided funding for a computer science postdoctoral fellowship to develop novel methods for automated real time analysis of data captured remotely (regression modelling, machine learning) and a data dashboard display to assist clinicians caring for children with cystic fibrosis in clinics and hospitals. It also funded a physiotherapy PhD studentship to undertake a clinical, analytic longitudinal observational cohort study (using remote monitoring) to quantify relationships between clinical outcomes and adherence to airway clearance techniques and exercise in children with cystic fibrosis. Dr Shannon is secondary supervisor to the physiotherapy PhD student, Emma Raywood, who successfully upgraded from MPhil to PhD in July 2019. She is also secondary supervisor to Emma Shkurka, who is in her first year of an NIHR funded doctoral fellowship. Emma Shkurka’s work uses big data to identify and understand the risk factors for physiological instability and adverse events associated with chest physiotherapy in ventilated children.

Dr Shannon has supervised over 50 MSc physiotherapy research students’ projects since 2006, many of whom have presented their work at national and international conferences and published in peer-reviewed academic journals. Most recently, Dr Shannon took a group of six alumni to the World Congress of Physical Therapy 2019 in Switzerland, to present their research.

Dr Harriet Shannon completed her own doctoral studies in 2011 and was awarded a PhD from UCL for her research exploring the safety and efficacy of paediatric cardiorespiratory on-call physiotherapy in intensive care. Her current research interests focus on the effectiveness of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy in both adult and paediatric intensive care, and exploring the clinometric properties of physiotherapy-oriented outcome measures.

Dr Shannon is vice chair of the Council for Allied Health Professionals’ Research (CAHPR) regional hub forum (2017 to date), and has been co-chair of the London hub for 5 years. In this role she promotes and supports clinical research, and has been successful in developing a small grants scheme for novice researcher. Dr Shannon was research officer for the Association for Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care (2011 to 2014).