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Mrs Sinéad Smith

Sinéad joined the AGE Research Group in September 2024 as a PhD Student and Clinical Research Associate.

Prior to joining the AGE Research Group, Sinéad was based at the Department of Neurophysiology at the RVI in Newcastle as a Trainee Clinical Scientist, qualifying in September 2024. She is also a qualified Physiotherapist having worked in the NHS and private practice. Sinéad graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2012 with a degree in Physiology. She also holds two Masters of Science degrees: Physiotherapy from the University of Northumbria and Clinical Science from Aston University, Birmingham.

Her PhD entitled ‘‘From nerve to muscle: understanding, adapting, and applying neurophysiology to characterise skeletal muscle across the life course’’ will involve the development and application of new methods to examine both skeletal muscle mass and skeletal muscle function, including advanced neurophysiological techniques such as muscle velocity recovery cycles to assess skeletal muscle excitability. The aim of this work is to develop techniques suitable for clinical practice, to stratify and measure response in clinical trials designed for older people and larger scale population-based studies.