Rate My Professor Suzanne Snodgrass

Her research focuses on movement control, ageing, and injury rehabilitation, including strategies to identify balance decline in adults under 65, promote physical activity to prevent falls, assess injury risk factors in athletes and pain conditions, and develop interventions for neck and back pain, concussion, and tackling re-education. Specializations encompass biomechanics, postural sway, neurobiological pain mechanisms, muscle composition, sensory perception, and brain activity. She has supervised 24 PhD students over the past decade, with 16 completions, including clinical trials of physiotherapy treatments. Key publications include 'Older age associated with greater brain activity in motor and somatosensory cortices during dual task balance: a cross-sectional study using fNIRS' (2024), 'Brain morphology in individuals with chronic idiopathic neck pain over 6 months: a magnetic resonance longitudinal cohort study' (2024), 'Hip joint assessment in chronic non-specific low back pain. A Delphi study' (2023), 'Movement variability in runners with a current or recent musculoskeletal injury: a systematic review' (2022), and 'Nonlinear running dynamics differ in male sub-elite athletes with a history of hamstring injury' (2022). With over 4,700 citations on Google Scholar, her work influences physiotherapy, biomechanics, and rehabilitation fields. Awards include Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists by Original Contribution, Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Supervision Excellence (2022), and College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing Mid-Career Researcher Award (2022).