Dr Mike Fray

  • Senior Lecturer in Human Factors Design

Dr Mike Fray holds first degrees in Ergonomics (Loughborough University, 1987) and Physiotherapy (Leeds University, 1993). After a few years working in the transport field (Ford, ICE Ergonomics) for many years he specialised in the areas of occupational physiotherapy, rehabilitation and injury prevention for healthcare workers. During this time he was both employed within the NHS and in a consultancy role across many different organisations.

In 1996 Dr Fray, with the Centre for Hazard and Risk Management, created and developed the Back-Care Management programme at Loughborough University.  Since 1997 he has been a Visiting Fellow and course tutor on the programme delivering a range of modules in the use of physical ergonomics methodologies applied to the complex areas of healthcare. 

Since 2006, Dr Fray has been conducting research in HEPSU, now in Loughborough Design School.  In 2010 he completed part-time a PhD study which developed an outcome measurement tool to compare all types of interventions for patient handling in healthcare (Arjo-Huntleigh ab).

Other funded research projects have included space evaluations for hospital designs (Department of Health) and product evaluations for healthcare products (Frontier Medical and Smartlift Engineering Ltd).  In 2010-11 he was lead researcher on the CURE project (EPSRC) developing and evaluating modular treatment units for the ambulance service to assist with pre-hospital care and reduce the number of people being transported to hospital.

In summary his research interests are in the improvement of the delivery of healthcare activities with a special focus on the physical risks to staff and the delivery of the highest quality care for the patient.