Rate My Professor Tara Binnie

Dr. Tara Binnie serves as a Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in the Curtin School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Curtin University. As a qualified physiotherapist holding a Bachelor of Science (Honours), she focuses her teaching on practical skills, communication, and patient-centered care within physiotherapy and exercise science. In recognition of her educational contributions, she was awarded the 2018 Curtin Faculty of Health Sciences Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award (Sessional Teaching Staff) during the Festival of Learning. This accolade highlights her excellence in delivering innovative teaching in Physiotherapy and Exercise Science. She also contributes as a research supervisor in the area of musculoskeletal disorders and has been involved in funded projects, such as predicting knee loading using wearable sensors in collaboration with Arthritis Australia.

Dr. Tara Binnie's research centers on knee osteoarthritis, knee injury, biomechanics, musculoskeletal pain, and physiotherapy, with her Google Scholar profile showing 152 citations. Her key publications include 'How Do People With Knee Osteoarthritis Conceptualize Knee Confidence? A Qualitative Study' published in Physical Therapy in 2022; 'Predicting Knee Joint Kinematics from Wearable Sensor Data in People Who Have Experienced a Knee Injury or Knee Osteoarthritis' in Sensors in 2022; 'Human Activity Recognition for People with Knee Osteoarthritis—A Proof-of-Concept' in Sensors in 2021; 'An Exploration of the Association between Knee Confidence and Knee Biomechanics in People with Knee Osteoarthritis' in 2023; and contributions to the FRANTOME study protocol on 'Knee health and associations with female-specific health, physical, psychological and lifestyle factors' in 2026. Additional works encompass concurrent validation of inertial sensors for knee kinematics in knee osteoarthritis patients and explorations of activity recognition systems. Through these efforts, she advances understanding and technological applications in managing knee-related conditions. Her ORCID is 0000-0002-6166-2791.