Rate My Professor Jon Marsden

Marsden teaches on the MSc in Neurological Rehabilitation, leading the Cognition, Perception and Behaviour module and contributing to Sensorimotor Control in Neurological Practice and Pathomechanics and Rehabilitation of Gait and Balance. He also supports the undergraduate physiotherapy programme's Neurological Physiotherapy module and supervises six current postgraduate students while having overseen PhD theses including Accidental Falls in Multiple Sclerosis (H Gunn, 2015), Recovering Hand Function after Stroke (A Wallace, 2011), and Sensory Mechanisms of Balance Control in Cerebellar Disease (L Bunn, 2010). With over 70 peer-reviewed publications garnering nearly 5,000 citations, his research enjoys international recognition through worldwide conference presentations. Key publications encompass Cerebellar Ataxia: Pathophysiology and Rehabilitation (2011), Muscle Paresis and Passive Stiffness: Key Determinants in the Development of Stiff Knee Walking after Stroke (2012), and Specialist Physiotherapy for Functional Motor Disorder in Adults: Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial (2024). Marsden received the Fellowship of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in 2017 for contributions to research and education, serves as NIHR panel member since 2012, chaired the CSP Scientific Panel (2008-2010), and is an honorary member and trustee of the Familial Spastic Paraparesis Support Group.