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Professor Christopher Eccleston is a distinguished academic at the University of Bath, serving as Director of the Centre for Pain Research within the Department for Health, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences. He maintains an active research profile with over 394 publications and currently supervises doctoral students. His work spans multiple interdisciplinary centers including the Bath Institute for the Augmented Human and the Centre for Bioengineering & Biomedical Technologies.
- ORCID: 0000-0003-0698-1543
- Location: Wessex House 6.04
- Contact: +44 (0) 1225 386439
Professor Eccleston's research focuses on evidence-based pain management, self-management of chronic illness, assistive rehabilitative technology, adolescent chronic pain and parenting, and attentional mechanisms of analgesia. His work contributes significantly to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health and wellbeing. His fingerprint analysis reveals strong expertise in Chronic Pain (100%), Adolescence Psychology (38%), Psychology (22%), Adolescent Nursing and Health Professions (17%), Systematic Review Psychology (15%), Analgesia Medicine and Dentistry (11%), Meta-Analysis Psychology (10%), and Randomized Controlled Trial Medicine and Dentistry (9%).
His recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward digital pain management solutions, chronic pain rehabilitation using emerging technologies, and improving the trustworthiness of pain research. His work increasingly integrates virtual reality, digital biomarkers, and behavioral interventions to address chronic pain conditions across diverse patient populations.
- Member of Scientific Research Committee (Marie Curie)
- Field Editor for Psychology, PAIN
- Coordinating editor: Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Cochrane Review Group
Professor Eccleston leads multiple significant research projects including "High impact chronic pain and UK biobank" (MRC-funded, 2022-2025) and "ENTRUST-PE: Enhancing Trust in Pain Evidence" (ERA_NET NEURON). He has supervised numerous doctoral students and researchers, with current projects involving international collaborations across 27 research initiatives. His research group maintains strong connections with clinical practice and policy development in pain management.
As Director of the Centre for Pain Research, Professor Eccleston oversees a multidisciplinary team focusing on psychosocial mechanisms of chronic pain, patient social context, lived experience, and innovative pain rehabilitation approaches. The center collaborates with the Bath Institute for the Augmented Human to develop cutting-edge technology-based pain interventions.
