Grant Trewartha is Professor of Digital Healthcare Interventions within the School of Health and Life Sciences, joining Teesside University in August 2023.

He graduated from Loughborough University in 1997 with a BSc in Sports Science and from the same institution in 2001 with a PhD in Biomechanics / Computer Vision. His PhD project on "Three-dimensional automatic tracking of human movement" was conducted under the supervision of Prof Fred Yeadon and won awards at national and international scientific congresses.

From 2001-16, Grant was a member of academic staff in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, where he taught on sport-related degree programmes and carried out research in human biomechanics with sport and health applications and sport injury prevention. He co-directed the "Rugby Science" research group and led numerous projects on behalf of the sport's governing bodies relating to player welfare and injury prevention.

From 2016-23, he was Head of Biomechanics at NURVV Ltd, a wearable technology start-up who specialised in developing wearable technology products for sport and health markets.  

Grant's primary research interests are in digital mobility monitoring. This includes: remote monitoring of gait and balance, self-management of gait rehabilitation, use of digital health tools for injury risk factor analyses, and wearable technology approaches for rehabilitation of sport injuries. 

Having spent 7 years in industry with NURVV Ltd, Grant has a keen interest and expertise in the deployment of wearable technology products for human motion monitoring 'in the wild'.

At NURVV, Grant had close involvement in the end-to-end product development process, including idea generation, product proposition, market research, sensor design & testing, algorithm development for firmware (metrics from raw data) and app features (insights), hardware testing, metrics validations, product roadmap.

Dr Ezio Preatoni, University of Bath - Wearable technology and Machine Learning analyses for human motion applications

Dr Dario Cazzola, University of Bath - Computational musculoskeletal modelling applied to injury prevention

Dr Alex Atack, St Mary's University - Wearable technology applied to sport injury rehabilitation