Dr Dawn O'Dowd PhD

I'm a Lecturer in Applied Biomechanics and Human Movement at Manchester Metropolitan University, and a support scientist for Great Britain's Paralympic swimming team. My research covers how people with neuromuscular conditions adapt to exercise, and how Para swimmers are classified so competition is fair. I worked on the World Para Swimming classification project, and my work is published in journals including Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Sports Medicine - Open, and Disability and Rehabilitation. I'm also co-founder of The Card Genie, a UK personalised greetings card company. Happy to comment on Para sport classification, exercise and neuromuscular conditions, and disability sport participation. Separately, on gifting habits and personalisation in the greetings card ma...