Dr Kenneth J Young
Senior Research Fellow - Musculoskeletal Health, Allied Health Research Unit
School of Health, Social Work and Sport
Ken has a background as a chiropractor with academic and clinical experience in the UK, Australia, and North America. His areas of expertise include musculoskeletal health issues with an emphasis on diagnostic imaging, professionalism, and evidence-based practice.
Ken began working at UCLan as a senior lecturer in December 2019. He moved to a full-time research post with the Allied Health Research Unit in mid-2021. He brings academic experience from three continents as well as twenty years of running a diagnostic imaging interpretation service. His focus is maintained on patient benefit. He aims to improve the evidence base for manual therapies and increase collaboration among chiropractic, osteopathy, and physiotherapy. This is to enable more efficient and appropriate delivery of care in multidisciplinary health care systems. Ken currently leads research projects on the analysis of a data set of patient-reported outcome measures, systematic reviews on the mechanisms of spinal manipulation, and improving continuing professional development for manual therapists.
Ken brings academic experience at a university level to UCLan. He has previously served as Chair of Murdoch University's Educational Policy Review Committee on their academic governing body Academic Council, the Academic Curriculum and Admissions Committee, and others.
At the school level, Ken has served at Murdoch as Assistant Dean Learning and Teaching, Chair of the Chiropractic Accreditation Committee, as a member of the School Executive and School Board, and others. Ken has a record of linking courses with industry. He develops learning opportunities for chiropractic students with medical radiologists and an orthopaedic surgeon. He currently serves on the General Chiropractic Council Professional Conduct Committee. He also chairs a practice-based research network called the Chiropractic International Research Collaborative (CIRCuit), which is registered as a charity in the UK.
- PhD (Murdoch University), 2018
- MAppSc (Medical Imaging) (Charles Sturt University), 2009
- Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Radiology (DACBR), 1999
- Doctor of Chiropractic (Los Angeles College of Chiropractic), 1996
- Bachelor of Arts (Biology – Lehigh University), 1987
- 2023, £13,000 QR Policy Support Fund: Improving evidence-based practice in chiropractic and osteopathy: the role of the regulators in continuing professional development
- 2022, £5000 University of Central Lancashire LIFE Research Institute Research Starter Award: A descriptive analysis of the contents of Care Response, an international data set of patient-reported outcomes for chiropractic patients
- 2022, £1700 University of Central Lancashire Research Centre for Applied Sport, Physical Activity, and Performance: A word frequency and thematic analysis of free-text patient satisfaction responses in Care Response, a database of patient-reported outcome measures
- 2021, £5700 General Chiropractic Council: consultation on updated radiography guidance document
- 2014, AUD$290,000 Health Workforce Australia: equipment for simulated learning of radiography and radiology
- Musculoskeletal health and disease
- Manual therapy
- Knowledge translation
- Evidence-based practice
- Professional ethics, identity, and cultural authority
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy
- Registered, General Chiropractic Council
- Fellow, Royal College of Chiropractors (UK)
- Fellow, European Academy of Chiropractic
- Member, British Chiropractic Association
- Member, American Chiropractic College of Radiology
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- Royal College of Chiropractors, 2018, Personal PhD grant £1600
- October 2019, American Chiropractic College of Radiology annual conference, St Louis, USA
- August 2019, Chiropractic Australia annual Conference, Gold Coast, Australia
- November 2018, Supervisor Enhancement Workshop, Murdoch Postgraduate Research Office
- November 2018, How to Structure a Research Presentation, Professor Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde (Distinguished Collaborator), Murdoch University
- November 2018, How to Write for The Conversation, Mike Hopkin, Section Editor: Energy & Environment, held at Murdoch University
- August 2018, annual conference of the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia, Sydney, Australia
- June 2018, summer conference of the Royal College of Chiropractors, Birmingham, England
- May 2018, annual conference of the European Chiropractors Union, Budapest, Hungary
- October 2017, annual conference of the American Chiropractic College of Radiology, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- October 2016, annual conference of the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College Australasia, Sydney, Australia
- June 2016, 2-day leadership course led by Dee Roche at the Constitutional Centre of Western Australia
- July 2016, Building Workplace Relationships: Difficult Conversations, Murdoch University Organisational Capability Unit
- May 2016, Building Workplace Relationships: Understanding People, Murdoch University Organisational Capability Unit
- April 2016, Building Leadership Consciousness, Murdoch University Organisational Capability Unit
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