Fiona has led multiple studies to evaluate self-management approaches within healthcare teams including stroke, acute brain injury and major trauma. In 2013 Fiona set up a social enterprise ‘Bridges Self-management*’, which has developed and evaluated an approach to personalised self-management support co-designed with people living with complex long-term conditions and used by more than 800 acute and community healthcare teams across the UK.

In 2014, Fiona led the first NIHR funded study to evaluate the use of Experience–Based Co-Design to explore ways to increase therapeutic activity in stroke units. Fiona is currently the Co-lead for a large NIHR funded Listen project (Long Covid Personalised Self-managemenT support- co-design and EvaluatioN) and has led on the co-design of the intervention working in partnership with people living with Long Covid- this trial completes in October 2023. Fiona is also a co-applicant on projects funded by HTA and NIHR Global Health to co-design and evaluate personalised self-management support for people living with joint pain, arthritis and stroke.

Fiona is Deputy lead for the Implementation Science theme which is part of the Applied Research Collaboration – South London, and is on the selection committee for the HEE/NIHR ICA Programme, Advanced Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (ACAF) she is also a member of the European Life After Stroke committee.

Fiona has expertise in mixed methods and participatory research, co-production, and improvement/implementation science. Her focus is on co-design and working in partnership with patients, families, and clinical teams to develop and implement self-management training, interventions and resources. She currently supervises four PhD students based in the UK and Sweden

In 2014 Fiona became a fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and in 2017 Fiona was awarded an MBE for services to rehabilitation.

*Bridges Self-Management is a social enterprise run in partnership with St Georges University of London and Kingston University www.bridgesselfmanagement.org.uk

Fiona is leading and collaborating on a number of research projects all related to personalised self-management support, current projects include;

1. The Listen project (Long Covid Personalised Self-management support- co-design and EvaluatioN) – Co-chief Investigator one of 15 project in Long Covid funded by NIHRin July 2021 £19.6 million awarded to new research studies to help diagnose and treat long COVID | NIHR

LISTEN - Long Covid - Research - Kingston University London

To find out more about taking part in the trial

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2. East of England Academic Health Science Network. Evaluation of the sustainability and spread of Bridges self-management across stroke and neurological service. (Lead)

3. SELMA: It should be me who decides what matters to me: adapting and evaluating Bridges Self-Management for a Swedish Stroke setting.(Co-applicant)

SELMA: Self-management in stroke rehabilitation - Dalarna University (du.se)

4. The NotFASTstudy; Understanding fatigue in stroke patients and examining strategies to manage it

Identifying fatigue in stroke patients to improve their care - The University of Nottingham

5. OnTrack Rehab: a digital system for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke

Helix Centre | Digital Health Innovation Lab

Ablewhite, Joanne, Nouri, Fiona, Whisker, Alice, Thomas, Shirley, Jones, Fiona, das Nair, Roshan, Condon, Laura, Jones, Amanda, Sprigg, Nikola and Drummond, Avril (2022) How do stroke survivors and their caregivers manage post-stroke fatigue? A qualitative study. Clinical Rehabilitation, ISSN (print) 0269-2155 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Estevao, Carolina, Taylor, Elizabeth, Jarrett, Lucinda, Fort, Joseph, Murphy, Kevin, Woods, Anthony, Crane, Nikki, Pariante, Carmine M and Jones, Fiona (2022) Brain waves : accessing creative cultural activity for people living with brain injury through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, ISSN (online) 2673-6861 (In Press)

Greenwood, James, Hurley, Michael, McGregor, Alison, McCourt, Orla and Jones, Fiona (2022) A qualitative evaluation of participants experiences of living with back pain, lumbar fusion surgery, and post-operative rehabilitation. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 8, p. 91. ISSN (online) 2055-5784

Donetto, Sara, Jones, Fiona, Clarke, David J., Cloud, Geoffrey C., Gombert-Waldron, Karolina, Ruth, Harris, Macdonald, Alastair, McKevitt, Christopher and Robert, Glenn (2021) Exploring liminality in the co-design of rehabilitation environments : the case of one acute stroke unit. Health & Place, 72, p. 102695. ISSN (print) 1353-8292

Busse, Monica, Playle, Rebecca, Latchem-Hastings, Julie, Button, Kate, Lowe, Rachel, Barlow, Christy, Lloyd, Barry, Dean-Young, Andrew, Poile, Vincent, Dawes, Helen, Davies, Freya, O'Halloran, Rhian, Tallantyre, Emma, Edwards, Adrian, Wood, Fiona and Jones, Fiona (2021) A web-based life-style, exercise and activity intervention for people with progressive multiple sclerosis : results of a single-arm feasibility study. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, p. 103388. ISSN (print) 2211-0348 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Jones, Fiona, Gombert-, Karolina, Honey, Stephanie, Cloud, Geoffrey, Harris, Ruth, Macdonald, Alastair, McKevitt, Christopher, Robert, Glenn and Clarke, David (2021) Addressing inactivity after stroke : the Collaborative Rehabilitation in Acute Stroke (CREATE) study. International Journal of Stroke, 16(6), pp. 669-682. ISSN (print) 1747-4930

Clarke, David, Gombert-Waldron, Karolina, Honey, Stephanie, Cloud, Geoffrey, Harris, Ruth, Macdonald, Alastair, McKevitt, Christopher, Robert, Glenn and Jones, Fiona (2021) Co-designing organisational improvements and interventions to increase inpatient activity in four stroke units in England : a mixed-methods process evaluation using normalisation process theory. BMJ Open, 11(1), e042723. ISSN (online) 2044-6055

Jones, Fiona, Gombert-Waldron, Karolina, Honey, Stephanie, Cloud, Geoffrey, Harris, Ruth, Macdonald, Alastair, McKevitt, Chris, Robert, Glenn and Clarke, David (2020) Using co-production to increase activity in acute stroke units : the CREATE mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(35), ISSN (print) 2050-4349.

Fiona’s most important collaborations are with people and their families living with long -term conditions and co-design underpins all her work. Fiona leads Bridges Self-Management and through her work in this organization collaborates with staff across the NHS, and healthcare teams in the EU.

She has collaborations with other research teams at Cardiff University, Kings College London, Nottingham, Lincoln and Swansea Universities.