Dr. Stuart Porter

Current positions

Lecturer in Physiotherapy

Biography

Dr Porter has been teaching since 1996 within Higher Education. His passion is undergraduate education and supporting students. He was winner of the first University award for teaching excellence in 2009. In 2015 and 2016 he was nominated by his students for two University teaching awards - best teacher and best post graduate supervisor. Dr Porter lectures mainly on the full time Physiotherapy undergraduate degree programme. He has written ten books with Elsevier publishers that are now translated into eleven languages. His PhD was in Rheumatology from the University of Central Lancashire. His thesis studied the sero-negative rheumatological disease of Ankylosing Spondylitis. He is a PhD internal and external examiner, expert witness, and member of the medico legal association of chartered physiotherapists. He is external examiner for the University of Liverpool's MSC PGDip in Veterinary Physiotherapy and has held external examiner positions at the Universities of East London, Liverpool, and Bradford. He is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is a visiting lecturer in Sao Paulo, Brazil and his latest published research article engages with the teaching of anatomy for undergraduate physiotherapy students. Prior to working within education, he was a Chartered Physiotherapist within the NHS for 15 years in the NHS. He was also the Physiotherapist to the England Women’s football team ( the lionesses)  for three years. This memorable experience allowed him to represent England working with talented individuals both at home and during tours of countries including France, Denmark, Italy, Iceland, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.