Research and Impact

Title: Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Impact)
Email: k.s.dziedzic@keele.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1782 733907
Location: Claus Moser CM2.15 / David Weatherall DJW1.53
Contacting me: Executive Assistant - Sheila Allen s.a.allen@keele.ac.uk

Biography

As the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Impact), Krysia provides strategic leadership to our research and impact portfolio and the Research Excellence Framework. Krysia has a PhD (Bioengineering) and is a Keele Alumni, joining Keele as a post-doc in 1998, having previously worked as a research physiotherapist in the NHS. Krysia has held the Dean of Research role, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, an NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellowship, and NICE Fellowship.

Krysia is an NIHR Senior Investigator; Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy; NICE Implementation Steering Group member; Honorary Implementation Consultant for Midlands Partnership University Foundation Trust; West Midlands Health Innovation Network Board member; Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre Board member; and visiting Chair at University of the West of England. Krysia is a member of the development group for the NIHR Race Equality Framework for Public Involvement in Research, and Chair of the European Alliance for Rheumatology (EULAR) Implementation Study Group.

Krysia is a member of the NIHR Insight programme developing the next generation of researchers from underrepresented professions. Since 2015 Krysia has developed a model for accelerating the adoption and spread of health and care innovations and was invited by the NIHR to be a Research Excellence Framework (2021) Impact Assessor for Unit of Assessment 2.

Krysia has received over £16 million in funding and lead a successful 1.3 million Euro EIT-Health innovation project, JIGSAW-E. In April 2024 Krysia received a lifetime achievement award from the Osteoarthritis Reseach Society International. Krysia combines her role with that of Versus Arthritis Professor in Musculoskeletal Therapies and Director of the Impact Accelerator Unit in the School of Medicine, Keele University.