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Contact Details

Phone
+64 4 832 3654
Email
livia.fernandes@otago.ac.nz
Position
Assistant Research Fellow
Department
Department of Medicine (Wellington)
Qualifications
BPhty(Hons), MSc
Research summary
Researching chronic pain, health equity, and Indigenous health and wellbeing through qualitative, relational, and participatory approaches.
Memberships
  • International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
  • New Zealand Pain Society (NZPS)
  • ANZMUSC

Research

Awards/distinctions:

  • International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) - 2024 Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain SIG Early Career Investigator & Partnership Grant (U$2,000)
  • New Zealand Pain Society Research Funding (NZ$1,888)
  • New Zealand Pain Society 2025 Broadfoot Trust Award (NZ$2,000)

Current projects:

  1. The chronic pain prism: enacting the two-eyed seeing approach to examine discursive constructions of chronic pain in the narratives of Māori with lived experiences
  2. Co-designing whānau stories to reduce opioid use for chronic pain in Aotearoa (HRC; PI Cheryl Davies and Hemakumar Devan)

Publications

Pierobon, A., Gaspar Fernandes, L., Wilson, R., Christopherson, R. M., Stanley, J., Pryymachenko, Y., Lim, Y. W., Caya, R., Gayed, M., & Abbott, J. H. (2025). Validity of the Global Rating of Change in patients with chronic low back pain. Musculoskeletal Science & Practice, 80, 103443. doi: 10.1016/j.msksp.2025.103443 Journal - Research Article

Silva, H. J. A., Gaspar Fernandes, L., Hinman, R. S., Perea, J., Mescouto, K., Ferrari, A. V., … Salvini, T. F. (2025). “Improved not only the osteoarthritis but also general health”: A qualitative study on patient experiences with the peak-portuguese e-learning course for knee osteoarthritis self-management. Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy, 29, 101528. doi: 10.1016/j.bjpt.2025.101528 Journal - Research Article

Fandim, J. V., Santana, P., Gaspar Fernandes, L., Bezerra, J., Carballo-Costa, L., & Saragiotto, B. T. (2025). Telehealth in physiotherapy is moving towards equitable authorship: A bibliometric study. European Journal of Physiotherapy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/21679169.2025.2546953 Journal - Research Article

Silva, H. J. A., Saragiotto, B. T., Fernandes, L. G., Perea, J. P. M., Ferrari, A. V., de Paiva Locatelli, I., … Salvini, T. F. (2025). 'Removing a Blindfold': Perspectives of physical therapists after completing the PEAK-Portuguese e-learning course. Musculoskeletal Care, 23(3), e70163. doi: 10.1002/msc.70163 Journal - Research Article

Fernandes, L. G., Davies, C., Jaye, C., Hay-Smith, J., & Devan, H. (2025). “We do not stop being Indigenous when we are in pain”: An integrative review of the lived experiences of chronic pain among Indigenous peoples. Social Science & Medicine, 373, 117991. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117991 Journal - Research Article

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