Email: t.trayers@bristol.ac.uk
Tanya is a Chartered Physiotherapist and was awarded her degree from Cardiff School of Physiotherapy in 1997. Following seven years of working in the NHS she went on to complete an MSc in Physical Activity, Nutrition and Public Health at the University of Bristol in 2002. This facilitated her move to an academic career, where Tanya initially worked as a research assistant within the University of Bristol, before commencing at the Academic Unit of Primary Health Care in September 2005 as a research training fellow.
Tanya’s research interest is in the field of healthy ageing. She is working towards her PhD which focuses on how older people function and in particular lower limb functional ability in people aged 70 years and over, and how this is related to the way in which they use primary health care services. She works in collaboration with project OPAL, Older People and Active Living, a longitudinal study of lifestyle and activity of older people. She is currently collecting repeat objective measures of lower limb function from participants recruited from primary care practices in Bristol to project OPAL.
Tanya’s thesis should lead to a better understanding of the degree to which lower limb function changes as people age, the main factors that influence such changes and how primary health care may or may not be able to help maintain healthy lower limb function as people age.
She is supervised by Professor Tim Peters and Professor Debbie Lawlor.
See Tanya's publications.