Dr Carina Price
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Associate Professor/Reader
Biography
Dr Carina Price is an Associate Professor and Theme Lead for Foot Health and Footwear Research at the University of Salford. A biomechanist by background now specialising in foot and footwear research, she has worked at the intersection of biomechanics, clinical evidence and product innovation since 2009. Her research integrates laboratory and real-world methods including plantar pressure analysis, motion capture, wearable sensors, 3D/4D scanning and qualitative methods, to understand how footwear interacts with wearers.
Carina holds degrees from the University of Bath and Loughborough University, a CMI Diploma, and completed her PhD by publication in footwear biomechanics at Salford. She has led numerous industry collaborations with organisations including FitFlop, Clarks Kids, ON (Running), Scholl and WearerTech. Through these, contributing to footwear designed for children, adults, clinical groups and workers in demanding environments. She was a core academic on Great Foundations, a landmark multi-year programme exploring infant foot development and early walking, producing influential evidence on paediatric gait and footwear needs.
Her research now spans paediatric movement, diabetic foot assessment, personalised footwear design, and the socio-cultural dimensions of footwear choice, fit and comfort. Current projects explore foot health in workers who are over 50 years and the role of footwear in users of lower limb prosthetics. She supervises PhD researchers across biomechanics, allied health and engineering and previously led the national Versus Arthritis AHP Internship Programme, supporting clinical academic career development.
Carina is active in the international biomechanics community as a steering committee member for i-FAB, a long-standing member of the Footwear Biomechanics Group, an invited conference speaker, journal reviewer and PhD examiner. With over 70 publications and significant industry-facing research translation, her work aims to advance innovative methodologies, improve clinical and industry practice, and ensure footwear research reflects both biomechanical evidence and real-world user needs in wearers who have specific foot health needs.
Areas of Research
Footwear Biomechanics, Paediatric biomechanics, Gait analysis, Methodology and protocol development and validation
Areas of Supervision
Footwear; Biomechanics; Foot health; Sport Science
Contribution to undergraduate programmes in Sport and Exercise Science, Prosthetics and Orthotics and Podiatry.
MSc supervision in Podiatry and Physiotherapy.
Qualifications
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PhD
2009 - 2014 -
MSc Sports Biomechanics
2006 - 2007 -
BSc Sport & Exercise Sciences
2003 - 2006
Publications
- Definition of an insole comfort equation using biomechanics data from a real-world data collection method
- What happens to babies’ feet when they are learning to walk?
- Navigating the integration of knowledge and research evidence in clinical practice for children's foot health: A multi‐professional survey