Ian Appleyard is the Research and Policy Manager at the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC). He has a BSc Acupuncture and has studied with a private practitioner in Japan. Ian has also trained at hospitals in Shanghai and Nanjing (2003-6). In 2018, he completed his PhD in Acupuncture and moxibustion for osteoarthritis of the knee, and has a particular interest in the methodological challenges of researching acupuncture.