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Emily Walker


Current Appointments

PhD Candidate

Emily BSc(Hons), BExPhys is completing her PhD at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and the School of Health Sciences at University of New South Wales (UNSW). Her PhD focusses on the CAPACITY trial which she will be conducting a process evaluation on. The CAPACITY trial is looking at the effectiveness of patient-led goal setting and pain education for people with chronic low back pain. The process evaluation will look at 4 components - acceptability, appropriateness, implementation fidelity, and sustainability of the CAPACITY trial.Emily is also passionate about equity and social determinants of health. She is interested in looking at the current practices of collecting and reporting equity-relevant data, to inform a call to action for pain research in the health and medical field to uptake the social responsibility of collecting and reporting data related to social determinants of health.


Publications

2024, 13 Jul

Navigating complexities: clinicians’ experiences and systemic challenges in the implementation of evidence-based practice for chronic low back pain – a qualitative study

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2024.2378371