Mike Greaney
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Mike teaches across all Physiotherapy year groups, as well as being admissions tutor for in Physiotherapy BSc (Hons). Alongside Mike’s teaching commitments, he also maintains a strong clinical link with the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Charity (BASIC) and is external examiner at Coventry University on their Physiotherapy and Leadership MSc.
Mike is the course lead for the MSc Physiotherapy (Pre-registration) programme and teaches across all year groups in Physiotherapy. He has experience working in the public, private, and charitable sectors in both the UK and Ireland, and he has extensive expertise in supporting adults and children with neurological conditions.
Mike has a strong interest in healthcare policy, having contributed to national policy initiatives while working with Health Education England and NHS England. His teaching interests include developing practical tactile skills, evidence-based recruitment, and exploring the roles of simulation and debriefing in education.
With nearly a decade of experience in higher education, Mike also serves as an external examiner at various UK universities, where he focuses on academic processes and regulations.
- Admissions Tutor - BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy
- MSc in Healthcare practice, University of Lancashire (2021)
- Postgraduate certificate in Teaching and Learning in HE, University of Lancashire (2020)
- BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy, University of Salford (2010)
- Golden Rose (Student's Union) award for work in widening participation (Inclusivity and Diversity), 2021
- North West Charity of the Year 2018-19 Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Charity (Salford), 2019
- Emerging technology and rehabilitation
- Widening Participation in Health care professions
- Recruitment and retention of students
- Feldenkrais Guild UK - 2025 - in training
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
- Health and Care Professions Council
- Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists (APCP)
- Fellowship of the HE Academy
Mike is currently working on several papers, including one on the role of debriefing in undergraduate courses related to healthcare and another cross-professional paper regarding the role of assessment centres in undergraduate recruitment. In 2025, he published a chapter in 'The Student Physiotherapist Companion' titled 'Assessment and Treatment of Children with Complex Needs.'
- Increasing Retention and Reducing Attrition in Health and Nursing Education Programmes (March 2024) - NHS England Northwest Conference
- Children In Need and Garfield Weston Foundation three year virtual reality rehabilitation programme – providing Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) to 60 children with a neurological diagnosis at BASIC, Salford
- Covenant Fund Veteran’s rehabilitation programme – providing Computer Assisted Rehabilitation environment and neurological physiotherapy to Veterans who suffer with PTSD
- Finding Rehab: How to Increase the Intensity of Rehabilitation for Younger Patients Using Technology. (March 2021) Child Brain Injury Trust Conference
- I Am Ready for My Close-Up: Improving the Quality of Teaching Webinars. (December 2020) Teaching and Learning Conference
- The Role of Virtual Reality in the Physical Rehabilitation of Clients with Neurological Conditions (November 2018). Case Management Conference UK
- Child Brain Injury Trust conference - March 2021. Keynote speaker 'Finding rehab: how to increase the intensity of younger persons' rehabilitation using technology'
- Teaching and Learning Conference - Preston, December 2020. 'I am ready for my close up: improving the quality of webinars'
- Case Management conference UK – Bristol, November 2018. Keynote speaker. Topic: ‘The role of Virtual reality in the physical rehabilitation of clients with a neurological condition'
Telephone:+44 (0)1772 896328
Email: Email:Mike Greaney