Julie Broderick PhD

Dr. Julie Broderick is an Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Physiotherapy.

She was awarded a prestigious Health Research Board (HRB) Clinical Fellowship in 2008 and her doctoral work was entitled 'Physical Activity through the Cancer Trajectory'and an HRB Cochrane Fellowship in 2015. She also holds an honors degree (BSc.) in Physiotherapy, a Master's in Exercise Physiology (MSc.), and a Post-graduate Diploma in Statistics (H. Dip.) from Trinity College Dublin. She completed her Ph.D. at Trinity College Dublin in 2012.

She worked clinically for a number of years up to the Senior Physiotherapy level in a variety of settings mainly in the cardio-respiratory area and has held previous positions in clinical education and academia. The core focus of her research is the study of physical activity and physical functioning as a means to optimize physical and mental health across a range of chronic diseases.

Dr. Broderick was awarded an HRB Cochrane Fellowship in 2015 and as a result, has developed a suite of specialist evidence synthesis skills. She has senior authored a range of systematic reviews, including 4 Cochrane reviews and she is interested in Overview methodology. As well as non-Cochrane reviews, she has conducted a number of Cochrane reviews to populate an Overview of schizophrenia. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group. In recognition of her accomplishments in Evidence Synthesis, she was awarded a School of Medicine University of Maryland Bursary/Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field International Bursary. She designed and delivers a 5 ECTS module in Evidence Synthesis as part of the MSc in Cancer Survivorship. She is an invited Research Associate of Evidence Synthesis Ireland and she provides training on Evidence Synthesis Ireland methods courses since 2022.

She has successfully supervised a number of Masters's and Ph.D. students to completion. She has been appointed as an internal and external examiner for postgraduate research internally and externally. She has been invited to guest lecture at UCD on a yearly basis since 2009. She has presented her research widely and her work has been published in impactful journals such as Schizophrenia Bulletin, the British Journal of Sports Medicine, BMJ Open, and as well as leading Physiotherapy journals.