Leigh Fleming

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Biography

Leigh is currently the Subject Area Leader for Mechanical Engineering in the School of Computing and Engineering. After graduating with a BEng(hons) in Engineering Design: Mechanical from the University, she continued her studies completing a PhD in “The Use of 3D Analysis Techniques to Investigate the Wear of Femoral Stems in Total Hip Replacment” before moving into industry, working for DePuy International in their research and test department.

Since returning to academia, Leigh has worked on a number of research projects including: SOLADIM, a DTI funded project to investigate defect detection in semi-conductor materials; a number of industrial projects looking at the use of surface metrology to optimise manufacturing processes and functionality; investigations into wear of a range of orthopaedic implants; and NanoMEND, an FP7 project to investigate the possibilities of online measurement, detection and repair of defects in roll to roll processes.

Currently Leigh is expanding her measurement knowledge to apply to healthcare situations and recently wrote an editorial for Wounds UK to show how Engineers can work collaboratively with clinicians to improve the quality of basic care offered.

Her acadmic duties include teaching of Materials, Thermofluids and Investigative Studies. She is course leader for the Engineering Foundation Year and is also the Athena Swann Champion for the department. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has a PGCert in Higher Education Practice.

Research Expertise and Interests

Development of techniques to model skin integrity
Innovations in woundcare
Fretting wear of femoral stems in total hip replacement
Applications of surface metrology
Measurement of pressure shear and friction

Research Degree Supervision

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Research Expertise and Interests

Mechanical Testing
Engineering Thermodynamics
Photovoltaics
Hip
Tribology
Wear Testing
Medical Engineering
Metrology
Engineering Education
Mechanical Design
Quantitative Research
Atomic Layer Deposition

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Research Output

298 Citations
10 h-Index
24 Article
9 Conference contribution
2 Review article

Characterisation of wear areas on UHMWPE total knee replacement prostheses through study of their areal surface topographical parameters

Holland, M., Fleming, L., Walton, K., Cerquiglini, A., Hothi, H., Hart, A., Skinner, J. & Bills, P. J., 5 Jun 2018, In : Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties. 6, 3

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2 Citations (Scopus)

Chemical Imaging by Dissolution Analysis: Localized Kinetics of Dissolution Behavior to Provide Two-Dimensional Chemical Mapping and Tomographic Imaging on a Nanoscale

Reading, M., Ghori, M., Brown, D. R., Fleming, L., Antonijevic, M. D., Grandy, D. B., Hourston, D. J., Song, M. & Conway, B., 6 Jun 2017, In : Analytical Chemistry. 89, 11, p. 5882-5890 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access