To our families, friends, colleagues and students. To our parents for being such inspirational role models.
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Occupational therapy and older people / edited by Anita Atwal and Anne McIntyre. – 2nd ed.
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Steve trained in Physiotherapy at Salford University and qualified in 1993. He undertook an MSc in Neuro-rehabilitation. Steve is a clinical specialist and gained teaching experience at Brunel University, being appointed course director for the Neuro-rehabilitation MSc course from 2001 until 2003. Steve has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in the rehabilitation literature as well as book chapters and clinical guideline contributions.
After qualifying from the Derby School of Occupational Therapy in 1989, Anita gained a wide experience in acute medicine, older people and neurology. Anita has a particular interest in older adults in the acute care setting and has published over 30 articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals. She regularly presents at international and national conferences. Anita is the Director for Professional Practice Research at Brunel University, which aims to support and empower students, academics, clinicians and service users to promote high standards in clinical practice.
Rachel worked as a junior and senior occupational therapist in medicine, surgery and oncology. She then spent five years in the community, working in intermediate care rehabilitating patients and supporting palliative care patients. She is currently working in a lung care team/specialist palliative care team.
Sarah is Research Director at Thomas Pocklington, a small UK charity that provides direct services for people with sight loss. Sarah has worked in the voluntary and public sectors for many years after being involved within academic research.
Margaret is an occupational therapy lecturer at Brunel University and manages the Practice Placement Educators course, preparing colleagues for practice education. She leads the OT programme for interprofessional learning. Her practice experience includes working with children with disabilities and their families. Her management experience was as a senior manager and spans mental health, learning disabilities, community services and the acute sectors. Margaret’s research interests are supervision in practice education and interprofessional working.
Linda has worked in higher education for 23 years, teaching student occupational therapists and physiotherapists at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Currently, she is the programme leader for the BSc Occupational Therapy course at Brunel University. Her teaching and scholarship focuses upon physiology, neurology, cognition, and neuro-rehabilitation. She has a particular interest in the physiology of ageing, and frailty. Prior to teaching, Linda worked in neuro-rehabilitation and community physical disability services.
Mary qualified as an occupational therapist in 1984 and has worked in clinical practice, education and research. She has been a lecturer at Brunel University and Coventry University and is currently working as a research occupational therapist at the University of Nottingham.
Thérèse is the Consultant Occupational Therapist in Stroke for NHS Grampian and is the lead Allied Health Professions for the Stroke Management Clinical Network. She is the occupational therapy advisor to the National Advisory Committee for Stroke at the Scottish Government and has worked in the areas of stroke and neurosciences for most of her career. Thérèse has extensive teaching experience and runs courses nationally and internationally and has published several articles and written book chapters on topics related to stroke.
Jacqueline is an occupational therapist who has a research interest in recovery and has been involved in several projects to promote recovery including the recovery arts and narrative project. She has spent many years working as a clinician and has presented at numerous conferences
Alison has mainly worked in community-based services for people with learning (intellectual) disabilities, Since 2009, she has worked as a Practitioner Researcher with the NIHR’s CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, supporting research into the design and delivery of community-based specialist learning disability services, particularly for people whose behaviour is ‘challenging’ or have unmet mental health needs. Alison continues to provide professional supervision to occupational therapists in clinical services.
Kee Hean is an occupational therapy lecturer at Brunel University. His research interests include occupational therapy in mental health, service users’ involvement and empowerment, cultural awareness and competency and the Kawa Model Framework. He is a co-author of the book Advancing Occupational Therapy Practice in Mental Health Practice.
Alice worked as an occupational therapist in mental health services and elderly care services for many years in London and Canada. In 2000, Alice came to Brunel University as an occupational therapy lecturer. She has had particular responsibility for practice placement education and teaching first-year undergraduates.
Melanie is an occupational therapist who has expertise in mental health, particularly in relation to older adults.
Anne is currently programme lead for the MSc (pre-reg) Occupational Therapy course at Brunel University, where she has been an OT lecturer since 1997. She teaches occupational therapy and physiotherapy students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Anne has worked in acute health care, neurological rehabilitation, with children with motor disorders as well as community rehabilitation with older people. Her interests are successful ageing and the use of the ICF in practice. Her doctoral research explored the experience of falling for older people with dementia and their carers. She is a member of the Brunel Institute of Ageing Studies.
Anna specialised in the area of hand therapy soon after qualifying as an occupational therapist. She has worked as a Clinical Specialist and Research Hand Therapist and has researched and published widely in the specialist area. She is currently the programme lead for the MSc Hand Therapy course at Brunel University.
Frances is a Reader in Health Psychology at Brunel University and joined the Division of Occupational Therapy in 1992. She has a particular interest in supervising students’ qualitative research projects, at MSc and PhD levels, and is a member of the Brunel Institute of Ageing Studies. She has particular research interests in the meanings of creative occupations, and their role in promoting positive identity, social networks and life satisfaction among people who are living with adversities associated with later life and/or disability. She has published articles in journals such as Disability and Rehabilitation, Arts in Psychotherapy, The British Journal of Occupational Therapy, and Qualitative Health Research.
Chris has worked in the physical health setting as both a junior and senior occupational therapist. This has encompassed specialist work with respiratory patients including setting up the occupational therapy component of a breathlessness clinic. She currently manages the therapy services within a general hospital.
Marcus is a qualified occupational therapist and former Lecturer at Brunel University. He has been a Programme Manager supporting US Central Command and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) with numerous State-Building and Rule of Law projects in Afghanistan for almost a decade. Marcus has been at the forefront of pushing forward occupational therapy into the area of overseas development work. His expertise is focused in applying occupational theory and processes within a broader, empowerment: enabling a mentor/advisorship role amongst stability building and nation development projects in conflicted environments.
Anthony was Lighting Development Manager at Thomas Pocklington Trust where he was responsible for developing guidance on lighting for people with sight loss. Anthony has over 35 years’ experience of lighting research and development and has published technical papers and served on international and UK technical and standards committees.
Kirsty has worked as a junior and senior therapist within medicine, orthopaedics and neurology. She worked for five years as a clinical specialist at a tertiary cardiac and respiratory hospital, jointly setting up a rehabilitation programme for heart failure patients. She is currently working within critical care and surgery.
Sue qualified as a Driving Standards Agency Approved Driving Instructor (Car) in 1992 and becoming the first dual qualified OT/ADI in the UK. Sue established her own business and is currently running two specially equipped assessment vehicles and her expertise and wide experience enables her to work effectively with the high level of complex trauma at trauma centres.
Alison has many years’ experience of working with older people with mental health problems. Alison completed her Masters on the use of COPM in mental health and, more recently, completed research related to dementia and interprofessional education. She is currently working at Limerick University, and is undertaking a PhD in the area of role emerging placements in occupational therapy. Alison is a Health Research Board (HRB) Fellow for 2012–2013.
Jennifer is currently Clinical Research Fellow in Occupational Therapy, University College London, Dementia Research Unit. She has primarily worked with older people within many settings. Jennifer is involved in a randomised controlled trial of reminiscence therapy for people with dementia and their family caregivers. She is a past Chair of the College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section – Older People.
Lesley is an occupational therapy lecturer who was the programme lead for the MSc Occupational Therapy (pre-registration) which she developed in 2007, until 2012. Previously, she was the programme leader for the part-time BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy from 1998 to 2005. Her clinical background is in physical and neurological disability, paediatrics, community work and senior management within the NHS and Social Services. Her research interests include occupational science, the mind–body interaction, spirituality and the connections between mental and physical health linked to occupation.