Salon – Writing your Narrative CV

Professor Vicki Goodwin MBE – is an academic and Physiotherapist at University of Exeter, specialising in the care of older people in particular falls, fractures and frailty.  In 2015 she was made a fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy for ‘significant contribution to the development of services for older people and contribution to the advancement of the physiotherapy profession’. She was made an MBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to physiotherapy. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator and Academic career Development lead for PenARC. Vicki is interested in the rehabilitation of older people and is part of NIHR PenARC and INTERSECT, where she leads projects on frailty, falls prevention and Parkinson’s – she is also a big supporter of transforming and improving academic careers.

Emre Yavuz – is a PhD Student at University College London in the Spiers Lab. His PhD is focussed on integrating science and technology to understand how our brain constructs representations of the world and uses them to remember, navigate and imagine space across the lifespan. He is also exploring the neurobiological mechanisms underlying such processes, using various techniques including brain imaging (including fNIRS and fMRI), neuropsychological testing, eye-tracking and virtuality reality. This is with the aim of developing navigation-based tests to help diagnose those with neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s Disease. Through his PhD he has been working on developing additional elements that can build his ‘Narrative CV’.