Health & Rehabilitation Sciences Research Institute (HRSRI)

Facilities

In October 2003, members of the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Institute were awarded £3.1 million funding to build a new state of the art “Centre for Rehabilitation Research” on the University’s Jordanstown Campus. Work on the new building commenced in December 2004. This centre of excellence is the first of its kind on the island of Ireland, and with its exclusive focus on rehabilitation research, is unique within the UK.

The new centre facilitates collaborative research at an international level and also significantly enhances the future capacity for such research in Ireland, by providing opportunities for research training at doctoral and postdoctoral level within this field.

The Centre provides a physical focus for Health and Rehabilitation Research in Northern Ireland. The Centre for Rehabilitation Research comprises 19 Treatment/Research Rooms including

virtual reality rooms
neurophysiology suite
pressure mapping suite
ultrasound scanner suite
3D imaging laboratory
incontinence suite.

There are, communal rehabilitation areas (a well equipped gym and movement analysis laboratory) and research & administration offices (13 individual research offices for academic staff and visiting scholars, open plan research area (30 work stations with hot-desking for part-time students), a boardroom, a seminar room and a secure data storage room). gait analysis laboratory is being developed as part of future research.

These resources are available for academic and student researchers undertaking research and are supported by an experienced Centre technician.