Rate My Professor James Debenham

James Debenham is an Associate Professor in the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He graduated from King’s College London with a BSc (Hons) in 2001 and completed a Master of Manual Therapy at the University of Western Australia in 2006. He joined the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2010, where he teaches in the musculoskeletal stream of the physiotherapy program and serves as National Chair of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia. Prior to his academic appointment, he worked in public and private clinical settings as well as with professional sports clubs in Australia and the United Kingdom.

His research focuses on tendinopathy, the stretch-shortening cycle, motor imagery training, and central sensitisation. He has supervised honours and master’s students and published papers on Achilles tendinopathy and loading protocols in journals including the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport and the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In 2025 he received the University of Notre Dame Australia Aspire Award for leadership in rural health education and serves as Director of the Majarlin Kimberley Centre for Remote Health. He is currently completing PhD studies at Curtin University investigating the influence of pain and pathology on the motor correlates of the stretch-shortening cycle.