Paul is a Professor at Teesside University. As well as a qualified physiotherapist, he is a National Teaching Fellow, CATE award winner and Principal Fellow of Advance HE.

Prior to teaching, Paul spent several years working in professional sport as a physiotherapist, most recently at a Premier League Football Club. Together with his sport experience, he has extensive experience working with the National Health Service, Occupational Health and Private Practice.

Paul is a former Trustee of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust. He has been on the board of the North East Musculoskeletal Society and enjoys stimulating quality continuous professional development in musculoskeletal rehabilitation.

Alongside his teaching duties Paul is keen to research in his chosen areas of hamstring prevention, soccer injury prevention, elite sport performance and rehabilitation. Paul always welcomes expressions of interest to collaborate on research.

Paul has currently published in the area of lumbar spine mobilisations and hamstring injuries. On-going research includes musculoskeletal injury management, the influence of mental injury on strength and sports rehabilitation

Paul is currently working on a range of research projects. These include the environmental challenges of North American Soccer, injury prevention and rehabilitation strategies.  

In relation to his Learning and Teaching portfolio, Paul has published and continues to research the physiotherapy curriculum, excellence in allied healthcare and inclusive assessment.

Paul has a global external profile working with several organisations across physiotherapy, sports medicine and excellence in learning and teaching.

Paul currently has many research projects ongoing with Professional Football Clubs in the United Kingdom and Major League Soccer (North American). He is also collaborating and leading funded projects with researchers from various other UK Higher Education Institutions in relation to assessment principles and multi-modal teaching.

Paul is a National Teaching Fellow and CATE award winner. In addition, he is also a Principal Fellow of Advanced HE and has a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE from Teesside University. He has published research on a broad area of learning and teaching related topics related to physiotherapy and sports medicine.