The ResearchWorks Podcast
The Research Works podcast is designed for health professionals in the area of child health, where we discuss emerging, modern, evidence based research - the behind the scenes stories, interviews with world renowned authors and researchers, material that never made the papers and a breakdown on how you can implement this into your clinical practice.
Episodes
339 episodes
Dr Richard Stevenson - AACPDM 2026 (Keynote speaker: CP Growth Charts and Beyond)
Dr Richard Stevenson: Nutrition and growth in CPDr Richard Stevenson kicked off the conference with his impressive and thought provoking Presidential Lecture titled "Growth of Children with CP and Health Outcomes: CP Growth Charts and B...
Dr Heather Feldner - AACPDM 2026 (On Time Mobility Framework)
Dr Heather Feldner: ON Time mobility and why it mattersON Time represents an important paradigm shift from "early" to "on-time," recognising a rights based framework that emphasises autonomy through the power of self-initiated movement....
Dr Hsiu-Ching Chiu - AACPDM 2026 (Reference Values for Mobility in Typically Developing Preschool Children)
Dr Hsiu-Ching Chiu PhD: Mobility reference values in preschool children.Dr Hsiu-Chin Chiu shared her team's work on "Reference Values for Mobility in Typically Developing Preschool Children: A Cross-Sectional Study". With n...
Dr Max Kurz - AACPDM 2026 (Differentiating the Cortical Dynamics of Persons with CP)
Dr Max Kurz, PhD: Can we identify responders and non-responders to Gait Training?Well this is quite the question to pose - we don't know very much about the features that help us to identify children that are more likely to respond to i...
Meaghan Rubsam, PhD Candidate - AACPDM 2026 (What Makes Physical Therapy Intensive?)
Meaghan Rubsam: What makes physical therapy intensive?How do we define "intensive" therapy? What makes therapy intensive? Is it just about the time that is spent in therapy?Short answer - no. Time is part of it but there is so m...
Assoc. Prof. Colleen Peyton - AACPDM 2026 (Phenotype-Specific Movement Signatures in Early Infancy)
Gayle G. Arnold Award FinalistPhenotype-Specific Movement Signatures in Early Infancy Differentiate Spastic and Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy
Prof. Noelle Moreau - AACPDM 2026 (Power based training and muscle architecture)
Gayle G. Arnold Award FinalistSpecificity of Training Effects of a Power-Based Training Program on Medial Gastrocnemius Muscle Architecture and Performance in Youth with Cerebral Palsy.Dr Noelle Moreau is Professor of Physical T...
Carol Shrader - AACPDM 2026 (Authentic lived experience engagement and the CPChecklist")
Carol Shrader: Authentic lived experience engagement and the CPChecklistCarol Shrader is the Cerebral Palsy Program Coordinator at Nemours Children’s Hospital. On the pod, Carol speaks passionately about the importance and...
Benjamin Shrader - AACPDM 2026 (Keynote Speaker: "Find the joy, even in the hard stuff!")
Benjamin Shrader is an advocate, film critic, public speaker and ramen enthusiast who lives with cerebral palsy. He is Vice Chair of the Delaware State Council for Persons with Disabilities and sits on the planning committee for the Delaware LI...
Reflections on participation in the community as self reported by young people with CP (Dr Jacinta Quartermaine)
Reflections on participation in the community, as self-reported by young people with cerebral palsyJacinta Quartermaine,
From evidence to practice: factors influencing the implementation of cord blood treatment for CP (Dr Megan Finch-Edmondson)
From evidence to practice: factors influencing the implementation of cord blood treatment for cerebral palsy in the United StatesMadison C B Paton, Joanne Kurtzberg, Jessica Sun, Sarah Reedman, Remy Blatch-Williams, Michael Fahey...
Muscle morphology and intramuscular fat after treatment as usual (Assoc. Prof Sian Williams)
Muscle morphology and intramuscular fat after treatment as usual including BonTA in children with cerebral palsy - a commentary and some context.Associate Professor Sian WilliamsDecreased muscle size (muscle atrophy) and ...
Gross Motor Function Measure 66 Item Sets (Professor Stacey Dusing)
Gross Motor Function Measure 66 Item Sets for use with infants and toddlers at high risk for cerebral palsy: construct validity and responsiveness.
Profiling the oral language & psychosocial skills of young people attending FLPs. (Dr Emily Jackson)
Profiling the oral language and psychosocial skills of young people attending Flexible Learning Programs.Dr Emily Jacksonhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41432037/
Swimming for Children with disability (Karen Graham)
Swimming for Children with disability: experiences of rehabilitation and swimming professionals in Australia.Karen Graham, Katarina Ostojic, Leanne Johnston ,Iain Dutia, Elizabeth Barnes-Keoghan and Georgina L. Clutterbuck
Activating parents in early childhood intervention (Dr Jacqui Barfoot)
Activating parents in early childhood intervention: a multi-study examination of the PAIR model as an implementation strategy.This study evaluated the PAIR model as a practical tool for implementing family-centred, relational early child...
Episode 300! A look back at the 5 year journey of the pod - and where we'll be in 5 years time!
Well... actually we are over 300 episodes old but it took a while to get the band back together after the European Academy of Childhood-onset Disabilities conference!Join Dayna, Ash and Marissa (and a special guest appearance by Ed - on...
Enhancing physically active leisure participation for children with CP (Prof Leanne Sakzewski)
Enhancing physically active leisure participation for children with cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial.Professor Leanne Sakzewski
AACPDM 2026 - a special preview (Dr Kristie Bjornson)
ResearchWorks is heading to AACPDM 2026 in Philadelphia this year!We can't wait to see you there - it's a special 80th Annual Meeting for the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM).Join with us a...
EACD 2026: A summary of the conference - a call to action (Dr Dayna Pool)
It's the special summary episode of our EACD 2026 conference series live from Galway Ireland! The conference was centred around the F-words and there was a call to action on the clinical application of the F-words.Enjoy the final episod...
EACD 2026: Developmental regression in childhood - identification, investigation and outcomes (Prof Katrina Williams)
Developmental regression in childhood - identification, investigation and outcomes.
EACD 2026: An evidence-based, standardized, and practical diagnostic framework for CP. (Dr Bhooma Aravamuthan)
An evidence-based, standardized, and practical diagnostic framework for cerebral palsy.
EACD 2026: Avoid the tyranny of orthodoxy, the F-words, goal setting and real life application (Dr Brian Hoare)
Avoid the tyranny of orthodoxy, the F-words, goal setting and real life application.