Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy. His research focuses on the lived experiences of individuals with long-term conditions, with a focus on Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), Intermittent Claudication (IC), Diabetes, and Chronic Pain. His work has resulted in the development and evaluation of complex interventions aimed at promoting optimal lifestyle management in non-communicable diseases.
Chris has a particular interest in participatory methods, exploring how individuals can collaboratively create, adapt, evaluate, and implement interventions for individuals with long-term conditions.
His current projects include co-creating behaviour change interventions to support lifestyle modification in people with PAD and IC (OPTIMA and CREATE trial), investigating the feasibility of TENS and motivational interviewing to increase physical activity in PAD and IC (MAvERIC Trial), exploring acceptance of chronic pain, and developing public health educational resources to support lifestyle management in people with cardiovascular conditions (PrEPAID trial).
Chris is the Co-Editor in Chief of Pain and Rehabilitation: the Journal of the Physiotherapy Pain Association and Scottish Consortium Chair of the Community for Allied Health Profession Research (CAHPR).
Chris welcomes enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from around the world who are interested in PhD study.
To access his publications, you can visit his ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4379-7913
Research Interests:
Development, evaluation, and implementation of complex interventions to help people to manage long term conditions and multimorbidity, particularly vascular, cardiovascular, and respiratory conditions and chronic pain.
Using participatory methods to facilitate healthcare professionals and service users to create and deliver services and social innovation that addresses health inequities and promotes healthy ageing.
Allied health professional education and development of research culture, capability and capacity.
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Seenan C, Abaraogu U, Dall P, Gilmour L, Tew GA, Stuart W, Elders A & Brittenden J (2025) Pain management and patient education interventions to increase physical activity in people with intermittent claudication (PrEPAID): a feasibility randomised controlled trial in the UK. BMJ Open, 15. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-105563
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Abaraogu UO, Dall P, Seenan C, Rhodes S, Gorely T, McParland J, Brittenden J, Anieto EM, Booth L, Gormal C, Dearling J, Fenton C, Audsley S, Fairer K, Bearne L & Skelton DA (2025) Behaviour change interventions to promote physical activity in people with intermittent claudication: the OPTIMA systematic review. Health Technology Assessment, 29 (18). https://doi.org/10.3310/zbng5240
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Abaraogu UO, Dall P, Seenan C, Rhodes S, Gorely T, McParland J, Brittenden J, Anieto EM, Booth L, Gormal C, Dearling J, Fenton C, Audsley S, Fairer K, Bearne L & Skelton DA (2025) Effect of Behavior-Change Interventions on Daily Physical Activity in Patients with Intermittent Claudication: The OPTIMA Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 32 (2), pp. 156-168. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwae296
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An ecosystem of accepting life with chronic pain: A meta-ethnography
Macgregor C, Blane DN, Tulle E, Campbell CL, Barber RJ, Hill O-Connor C & Seenan C (2024) An ecosystem of accepting life with chronic pain: A meta-ethnography. British Journal of Pain, 18 (4), pp. 365-381. https://doi.org/10.1177/20494637241250271
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Mazzolai L, Belch J, Venermo M, Aboyans V, Brodmann M, Bura-Rivière A, Debus S, Espinola-Klein C, Harwood AE, Hawley JA, Lanzi S, Madarič J, Mahé G, Malatesta D & Seenan C (2024) Editor's Choice -- Exercise Therapy for Chronic Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease: A Clinical Consensus Document of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases in Collaboration With the European Society of Vascular Medicine and the European Society for Vascular Surgery. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 67 (3), pp. 373-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.01.009
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Anieto EM, Abaraogu U, Dall PM, Anieto IB, Ogbueche CM & Seenan C (2023) Cocreators’ experiences and effectiveness of cocreated interventions in improving health behaviours of adults with non-communicable diseases: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open, 13 (10). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073153
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Intersectionality as a theoretical framework for researching health inequities in chronic pain
Macgregor C, Walumbe J, Tulle E, Seenan C & Blane DN (2023) Intersectionality as a theoretical framework for researching health inequities in chronic pain. British Journal of Pain, 17 (5), pp. 479-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/20494637231188583
