Occupational Therapy Publications
Research in Occupational Therapy Publications is concerned with enabling occupations to promote health, well-being, social inclusion and social justice at individual, family, community and societal levels. Research topics include work related injuries, physical activity, environmental factors of well-being and, rehabilitation. Topics include global access to treatment, radiotherapy and various surgical approaches.
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Submissions from 2023
Critiquing representations of intellectual disability in occupation-based literature, Rachel Reparon, Pamela Block, Ann Fudge Schormans, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, and Gail Teachman
Submissions from 2022
Promoting critically informed learning and knowing about occupation through conference engagements, Rebecca Aldrich, Roshan Galvaan, Alison Gerlach, Debbie Rudman, Lilian Magalhaes, Nick Pollard, and Lisette Farias
Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions, Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas, Debbie Rudman, Colleen McGrath, Debra Cameron, Vinod Joseph Abraham, Jeshuran Gunaseelan, and Samuel Prasanna Vinothkumar
Social Isolation, Third Places, and Precarious Employment Circumstances: A Scoping Review, Debbie Laliberte Rudman and Rebecca M. Aldrich
"Making change by shared doing": An examination of occupation in processes of social transformation in five case studies., Sandra Schiller, Hanneke van Bruggen, Sarah Kantartzis, Debbie Rudman, Ryan Lavalley, and Nick Pollard
Submissions from 2021
Enacting Contextually Responsive Scholarship: Centring Occupation in Participatory Action Research with Children in India, Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, and David Mark Thomas
Mobilizing occupation for social transformation: Radical resistance, disruption, and re-configuration, Debbie Rudman
Producing precarity: The individualization of later life unemployment within employment support provision, Debbie Rudman and Rebecca Aldrich
Submissions from 2020
Occupational Therapists as Street-Level Bureaucrats: Leveraging the Political Nature of Everyday Practice., Rebecca M Aldrich and Debbie Rudman
Centering the Complexity of Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons Learned from a Critical Occupational Science Inquiry, Rebecca Aldrich, Debbie Rudman, Na Eon(Esther) Park, and Suzanne Huot
A systematic review of occupational therapy interventions in the transition from homelessness, Roxanne Isard Ms., Carrie Anne Marshall, Leonie Boland, Lee Ann Westover, and Sharon A. Gutman
Submissions from 2019
A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: Working towards inclusive research, Colleen E. McGrath
A Protocol Paper on the Preservation of Identity: Understanding the Technology Adoption Patterns of Older Adults With Age-Related Vision Loss (ARVL), Colleen E. McGrath
Initiating Participatory Action Research with Older Adults: Lessons Learned through Reflexivity*, Colleen E. McGrath
‘That's for old so and so's!’: does identity influence older adults’ technology adoption decisions?, Colleen E. McGrath
Using Participant Observation to Enable Critical Understandings of Disability in Later Life: An Illustration Conducted With Older Adults With Low Vision, Colleen E. McGrath
Engaging the occupational imagination: Meeting in diversity, Debbie Rudman
Submissions from 2018
Expanding beyond individualism: Engaging critical perspectives on occupation., Alison J Gerlach, Gail Teachman, Debbie Rudman, Rebecca M Aldrich, and Suzanne Huot
Understanding Parkinson’s Through Visual Narratives: “I’m Not Mrs. Parkinson’s”, S. G. Lutz, Jeffrey D. Holmes, D. Rudman, A. M. Johnson, K. LaDonna, and M. E. Jenkins
Working Towards the Promise of Participatory Action Research: Learning From Ageing Research Exemplars, Colleen E. McGrath
Using Eye-Tracking Technology for Communication in Rett Syndrome: Perceptions of Impact, Kelli Vessoyan, Gill Steckle, Barb Easton, Megan Nichols, Victoria Mok Siu, and Janette McDougall
Submissions from 2017
Resource Seeking as Occupation: A Critical and Empirical Exploration., Rebecca M Aldrich, Debbie Rudman, and Virginia A Dickie
Precarity in the Nonprofit Employment Services Sector, Carlo Fanelli, Debbie Rudman, and Rebecca Aldrich
Domain-Based and Overall Life Satisfaction for Youth with Chronic Conditions: The Role of Personal, Interpersonal, and Environmental Factors Over a One-Year Period, Janette McDougall and Virginia Wright