Dr Deakin is a postdoctoral Associate in Clinical Neurosciences whose research focuses on traumatic brain injury, sports concussion, and spinal injury. She currently supports the international delivery of the POLYFIX-DCM surgical randomised controlled trial. After completing medical training at Cambridge and the Academic Foundation Programme in Edinburgh, she undertook a PhD investigating the assessment of mild traumatic brain injury and concussion in sport. Dr Deakin is a registered medical doctor with extensive experience in sports medicine and concussion research, and co-founded the Cambridge Sports Concussion Clinic. Her research centres on developing objective approaches to concussion diagnosis and informing safe return-to-play decisions across sporting settings, with work spanning both elite and community athletes.