Lecturer in Rehabilitation
Dr. Rafferty is a post-doctoral researcher in Sports Injury Epidemiology, and joined the school in Sept. 2016. He completed a PhD. in theoretical physics at Swansea University in 2011 following which he worked on image analysis, data science and machine learning for a medical imaging research company. His research focusses on the effect of concussion on subsequent injury risk and the factors that affect injury severity in elite sport.
Research Interests
My research is concerned with using data to understand the patterns in injuries to professional sports people with a view to informing policy and practice to minimise risk and improve outcomes for players. Concussion is a major issue in contact sports, and recent research has suggested sustaining a concussion can increase the risk of subsequent injury. Understanding why this is the case and how the effect can be mitigated is crucial to player welfare and encouraging participation at all levels.
In addition to this epidemiological work, I am interested in studying how concussion should be classified within the scope of head injuries using medical imaging and image analysis.
Publications
James Rafferty, Lance Farr, Tim James, David Chase, John Heinrich, Michael Brady. "A New Magnetic Resonance-Based Technique for High-Resolution Quantification of Amorphous and Quasi-Amorphous Structures" - J R Soc Interface 13 (123). 10 2016.
James Rafferty. "Holographic Roberge-Weiss Transitions II: Defect theories and the Sakai-Sugimoto model." JHEP 1109 (2011) 087
G. Aarts, S. P. Kumar &
James Rafferty. "Holographic Roberge-Weiss Transitions." JHEP 1007 (2010) 056
J. A. Hutasoit, S. P. Kumar & James Rafferty. "Real time response on dS3: The topological AdS black hole and the bubble." JHEP 0904 (2009) 063
Qualifications and Awards
Ph.D. Theoretical Physics 2011 (Funded by STFC studentship)
M.Phys. Theoretical Physics 2007 (First class honours)
Pricewaterhouse Coopers Prize 2005
