Rate My Professor Adrienne Harvey

Adrienne Harvey is the Paediatric Research Lead and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiotherapy within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. She is also a Principal Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute since October 2010 and previously served as Senior Physiotherapist at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne from 2010 to 2019. Harvey earned her PhD in Paediatrics from the University of Melbourne in 2008, with a thesis on The Functional Mobility Scale, a Master’s degree in Paediatric Physiotherapy from the same university in 1998, and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Physiotherapy from La Trobe University in 1991. Following her PhD, she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research at McMaster University, Canada.

As a clinician, educator, and researcher with extensive experience, her research focuses on cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities, including outcome measurement, disability studies, and paediatric physiotherapy. She leads a national program of research into chronic pain in children with cerebral palsy. Key publications include "A core outcome set to assess chronic pain interference and impact on emotional functioning for children and young people with cerebral palsy" (2025), "Adapting two pain assessment tools for young people with cerebral palsy: a multi-stakeholder consensus study" (2025), "A pilot implementation study of a chronic pain core outcome set and decision tree for children and young people with cerebral palsy" (2025, accepted), "Measurement properties and feasibility of chronic pain assessment tools for use with children and young people with cerebral palsy" (2025), and "Methods to discriminate between nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic in children & adolescents: A systematic review of psychometric properties and feasibility" (2025). She has received the Career Development Award (2015), Future Leaders of Cerebral Palsy Research training program (2016), Research Translation Award (2018), The Anne McCoy Award (2013), and Best Scientific Poster (2006). Harvey is an editorial board member of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (since 2016) and Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (since 2015).