Fully funded PhD studentship: deep extreme value learning for landslide tail risk. Apply by 13 January 2027.
Since 2025, I have served as a statistical consultant to the Trauma and Orthopaedics Department at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. The collaboration has so far produced three manuscripts under review, four conference presentations and two funded projects, bringing survey methodology, survival analysis and machine learning to questions that arise in everyday orthopaedic practice.
I am a member of the Bunions and Wider Foot Health Programme convened by Orthopaedic Research UK, an Inaugural UK National Hallux Valgus Think Tank bringing together orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapists, primary care researchers and patient representatives. I contribute to the statistical design and analysis for the programme’s primary care survey work.
Hallux valgus in primary care. A large-scale mixed-methods survey of patients and primary care practitioners, covering care-seeking behaviour, barriers to treatment, treatment gaps, and how treatment decisions are actually made.
Acute kidney injury after revision arthroplasty. With Adukia, V. (Leicester General Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust), Ijaz, H., Ali, H. and Menon, D. (Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust). Twenty years of a single surgeon’s district general hospital practice, February 2004 to April 2024, covering 72 revision knee replacements and 87 revision hip replacements performed for aseptic loosening. Missing covariates were handled by k-nearest-neighbour imputation. AKI occurred in 5.6% of revision knees and 8.0% of revision hips. In the knee cohort, pre-operative albumin, post-operative urea and post-operative creatinine were associated with AKI; in the hip cohort, the use of ARBs or ACE inhibitors, pre-operative urea and post-operative creatinine were associated with AKI.
Vitamin D and outcomes after arthroscopic shoulder decompression. With Alison Armstrong, Harvinder Singh and Kathryn Robinson (University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust). Testing whether pre-operative vitamin D status predicts recovery after arthroscopic subacromial decompression, with or without excision of the lateral clavicle. Data collected across 2025 and 2026 and still accruing; the analysis shows significant differences between high- and low-vitamin D groups in both Oxford Shoulder Score and Visual Analogue Scale pain scores.
Day-case hindfoot surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis. With Somen Agrawal (Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust), Linzy Houchen-Wolloff and Jitendra Mangwani (University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust). Pooling the published evidence on the safety, cost-effectiveness and clinical outcomes of outpatient hindfoot procedures, a question that bears directly on NHS bed pressures.
AI-enabled digital rehabilitation. Co-designing accessible rehabilitation technology after orthopaedic surgery, including reinforcement learning for adaptive home exercise planning.
[1] Lau, B., Houchen-Wolloff, L., Essop-Adam, A., Liu, P., Mangwani, J. (2026). Barriers to Care, Treatment Gaps, and Decision-Making in Hallux Valgus: A Large-Scale Mixed-Methods Primary Care Survey. Podium presentation, BOFAS 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting, Newport, UK, 4–6 November 2026.
[2] Lau, B., Houchen-Wolloff, L., Essop-Adam, A., Liu, P., Mangwani, J. (2026). The Patient Experience and Impact of Hallux Valgus in Primary Care: A Cross-Sectional, Large-Scale Survey Study. Presentation, 2026 Annual BIOS Conference (British Indian Orthopaedic Society), Leicester, UK, 3–4 July 2026.
[3] Armstrong, A. (2026). Low Vitamin D Is Associated with Poor Outcomes for Arthroscopic Decompression With or Without Excision of the Lateral Clavicle. Free paper presentation, BESS 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting, Newcastle, UK, 25 June 2026. (Statistical analysis: Liu, P.)
[4] Adukia, V., Ijaz, H., Ali, H., Liu, P., Menon, D. (2026). Risk Factors for Developing Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Single-Stage Hip or Knee Revision Arthroplasty for Aseptic Loosening. Presentation, 27th EFORT Annual Congress, Malaga, Spain, 4–6 May 2026.
Lau, B., Houchen-Wolloff, L., Essop-Adam, A., Liu, P., Mangwani, J. (2026). Care seeking, barriers and treatment decisions in hallux valgus: primary care survey. TBA.
Houchen-Wolloff, L., Lau, B., Liu, P., Essop-Adam, A., Mangwani, J. (2026). The Patient Experience and Impact of Hallux Valgus in Primary Care: A Cross-Sectional, Large-Scale Survey Study. TBA.
Agrawal, S., Divall, P., Houchen-Wolloff, L., Liu, P., Kotecha, S., Mangwani, J. (2026). Feasibility, Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Day-Case Hindfoot Surgery: A Scoping Review. TBA.
11/2026: EPSRC EMERGE RehabTech. Co-designing accessible digital rehabilitation technology after orthopaedic surgery (PI).
11/2026: EPSRC EMERGE RehabTech. Scoping study on AI-enabled remote rehabilitation in Leicestershire (Co-I).