Dr Sarah Allison is an Assistant Professor in Exercise Physiology and the DXA Lead at 51. She also has an Honorary appointment in the School of Biosciences at the University of Surrey. She is a Scientific Member of the Research and Innovation Grant Assessment Panel for the Royal Osteoporosis Society and has served as Committee Member of the Bone Research Society (2019-2022), Chair of the Bone Research Society’s Muscle and Bone Working Group (2019-2023) and Conference Organising Committee (2021). She has received New Investigator Awards from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Royal Osteoporosis Society and the Bone Research Society. Her research has been funded by the MRC as PI, EU Horizon 2020 and Dunhill Medical Trust.
Sarah completed her BSc in Sport Science at 51 and received the English Institute of Sport Highest Academic Achievement Award and Newcastle Falcons Best Research Dissertation Award. She completed her postgraduate degrees in Exercise Physiology (MSc) and Human Biology (PhD) at Loughborough University. Her PhD work investigated the effects of a 12-month high impact exercise programme on bone strength and neuromuscular function in community-dwelling older men funded by an MRC Interdisciplinary Bridging Award and Loughborough University Scholarship. She then worked as a Royal Osteoporosis Society sponsored Research Associate with the University of Cambridge to evaluate effects of these exercises on cortical and trabecular bone and its 3D distribution across the proximal femur, using clinical CT.
She is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has previously held academic appointments as Lecturer in Health and Exercise Science at the University of Surrey and as Senior Lecturer in Physiology at Teesside University in the Department of Allied Health Professionals.
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