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Dr Ken Valyear

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

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ORCID: 0000-0002-9513-8445

Postal address

355 Brigantia Building
Bangor University
LL57 2AS
United Kingdom

Contact info

355 Brigantia Building
Office: 01248 382623
E-mail: k.valyear@bangor.ac.uk
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/kfvalyear/

Research

Our mission is to better understand the links between brain and hand function, and to use this knowledge to improve patient care.

 
Exquisitely designed for function, our hands enable us to reshape our world around us. When brain or bodily injury impairs our ability to use our hands, their pivotal role in upholding our independence and quality of life is made painfully clear. My lab is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the neuroscience of human hand function. With this knowledge new and improved rehabilitation interventions for people with sensory and movement impairments can be developed.
 

Grant Awards and Projects

Research Grants

Welsh Government Ser Cymru III Enhancing Competitiveness Infrastructure Award

Improving child prostheses, and rehabilitation of peripheral nerve injuries, using movement science. 

Principal Investigators: Ken Valyear; Simon Watt

March 2020 

£64,472

Wellcome Trust Seed Award in Science (215186/Z/19/Z)

Mapping the consequences of peripheral nerve transection and repair on brain organisation and hand function.

Principal Investigator: Ken Valyear

December 2019 – May 2022

£94,063

Knowledge Exchange Skills Scholarships (KESS) II: PhD Studentship

The sensory and motor consequences of using an injured hand

Principal Investigators: Ken Valyear; Simon Watt; Edwin Jesudason

PhD candidate: Michela Paroli

June 2017 – 2020

£69300

Royal Society Research Grant (RG150098)

Specifying possible actions with objects: Paired-pulse TMS investigations of the underlying neural mechanisms

Principal Investigator: Ken Valyear

Co-investigator: Cosimo Urgesi

December 2015 – 2016

£15000

Contact Info

355 Brigantia Building
Office: 01248 382623
E-mail: k.valyear@bangor.ac.uk
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/kfvalyear/

Teaching and Supervision

I teach rehabilitation neuroscience, brain stimulation, clinical and applied neuroscience, and methods in cognitive neuroscience. I supervise BSc, MSc and PhD student dissertations.

 

Education / academic qualifications

  • 2011 - PhD , Neuroscience
  • 2002 - BSc , Physiology and Psychology

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