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Doctral College Research Award 2024

 

Huge congrats to Kirstie Devin for winning University of Southampton Doctoral College Research Awards 2024! Winner for both the School of Engineering and Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.


25th June 2024

LOMIS Research Engagement Event

Engaging Event at University of Southampton public members and Solent Diabetes UK Support Group joined us to discuss the latest LOMIS research and future development. Grateful for the insightful discussions and suggestions.


21st May 2024

BioMedEng 2023


Hope Shaw: EMG Signal Analysis to Assess Prosthetic Hand Failure During Activities


14th September 2023

Pint of Science 2023

Technology in the Brain - from animals to humans


Hope Shaw: Head, shoulders, knees, and code. 


24th May 2023

LOMIS Project Update and Showcase Event Day

An excellent day of LOMIS project meeting at the University of Southampton, joint by LOMIS clinical study team members from Salford and Keele Universities. The LOMIS team also provided latest project update to members from Diabetes UK Southampton and District Group. Thanks for all the discussion and valuable feedback.


24th April 2023

ISPO UK MS 2022


Kirstie Devin: Evaluating dynamic biomechanics at a transtibial socket interface during gait phases using finite element analysis

Hope Shaw: A comparative study of myosignals taken from constrained and non-constrained hand and wrist movements


6th October 2022

ESMAC 2022


Kirstie Devin: Biomechanical interaction at a transtibial residuum/socket interface during ambulation


22nd September 2022

BioMedEng22


Kirstie Devin: Experimental evaluation and finite element analysis of biomechanics at a transfemoral socket interface

 

8th September 2022

National Winner of the IMechE 2019 Healthcare Technologies Early Career Awards


Congratulations to Jinghua Tang who received the prestigious DePuy Prize for his PhD research in “Biomechanical Analysis of Lower Limb Amputee Socket Interface” at the annual event hosted by IMechE Biomedical Engineering Division on 19th June 2019.

 

19th June 2019

Jinghua Tang’s oral presentation at IEEE World Haptics 2017


Jinghua Tang delivered an oral presentation entitled: ‘A Comprehensive Mechanotransduction Model for Tactile Feedback based on Multi-Axial Stresses at the Fingertip-Contact Interface’ and an invited talk for the ‘Recent Advances in Modelling Skin Mechanics and Tactical Afferent Responses Workshop’ at IEEE World Haptics 2017.

 

14th June 2017

ISPO 16th World Congress 2017


ISPO’s 16th World Congress 2017 took place in Cape Town, South Africa from 8-11 May 2017 (ISPO2017). Three of our researchers presented their work in the conference.

 

8th May 2017

Winner of the Best Paper Prize for Advancing Technology at ISPO World Congress 2017


Jinghua Tang was awarded the ‘Best Paper Prize for Advancing Technolog’y for the oral presentation entitled ‘Method to assess biomechanical coupling at trans-femoral residuum/socket interface’ at the ISPO World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.

 

8th May 2017

Winner of William James Prize 2015


Dr Piotr Laszczak won the prestigious, national IET William James Award in 2015. The William James Award is presented to the student whose PhD research shows the most potential to contribute towards the development and improvement of the Biomedical Engineering.

 

25th February 2015

Winner of British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association (Blesma) Prize 2015


Dr Piotr Laszczak won the BLESMA Prize for the presentation entitled ‘Effects of clinical interventions and everyday activities on the dynamic loading at the lower limb stump/socket interface’ at the 2015 ISPO UK Annual Scientific Meeting in St Hugh’s College.

 

28th May 2015

Winner of the Limbless Association Prize 2014


Mr Jinghua Tang was the winner of the Limbless Association Prize for his oral presentation entitled ‘Influence of stump/socket relative movement on gait analysis for above knee amputees – a case study’ at the 2014 ISPO UK Annual Scientific Meeting.

 

4th October 2014

BBC: Pressure sensors to help prevent pain for amputees


Dr Liudi Jiang from the University of Southampton, who is leading the project, says the sensors could act as what she calls a "second skin".

"A large number of lower limb amputees may suffer from nerve damage and they have reduced skin sensation. That means they don't feel the pain or the tissue injury as effectively as we do. And it may be too late, because once that soft tissue is compromised it could lead to infection and could be really serious."

 

15th April 2014