Roshan das Nair

Title(s): Professor

Current Position/Designation: Senior Research Scientist & Professor of Clinical Psychology & Neuropsychology

Institutional Affiliation: Health Division, SINTEF, Norway & School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK.

Active Email Address: roshan.nair@sintef.no

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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/roshan-das-nair-68282721b

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8143-7893

Professor Roshan das Nair (BA, MSc, MPhil, PhD) is a UK Health and Care Professions Council Registered Practitioner Psychologist.

Prof das Nair’s research focuses applying psychological and neuropsychological theories to better understand and treat psychological issues stemming from neurological conditions. His clinical trials have evaluated complex interventions and rehabilitation programmes in multiple sclerosis, stroke, and traumatic brain injuries. He has led some of the largest clinical trials of cognitive rehabilitation in brain injuries (ReMemBrIn) and in multiple sclerosis (CRAMMS). He is currently working on a 7-year programme of research that is developing and evaluating a cognitive screening and rehabilitation pathway for people with multiple sclerosis (NEuRoMS). 

He is the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Digital Technologies in Rehabilitation (a consortium from SINTEF, University of Oslo, NTNU, and St Olav’s Hospital). He co-leads the Nottingham Multiple Sclerosis Research Group. He is the Vice-President/President-Elect of Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis (RIMS; a multidisciplinary network of rehabilitation centres, healthcare practitioners and researchers from 22 countries). He is an Associate Editor of the journal Clinical Rehabilitation.

Relevant Professional Skills/Experiences

  • Complex interventions, Randomised controlled trials, Implementation research, Health services research, Behaviour change interventions, Rehabilitation, Qualitative Research methods, Systematic reviews.

Relevant Career Highlights

  • Secured >65 research grants worth >£21.5 million in the last 10 years.
  • Supervised 68 Doctoral research projects to successful completion.
  • Published two books and >200 peer reviewed publications.
  • Delivered >30 keynote addresses or invited lectures in several countries.
  • Appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • 2018 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
  • Founding Director of the Midlands Mental Health and Neurosciences PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals (a consortium from the universities of Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, and Warwick).