About OT
General Contact Information
Inquiries
Email: askot@uwo.ca
Location
Elborn College, Room 1000
(see map)
Western University
London, Ontario N6A 1H1
Office Hours
Monday-Friday
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Faculty Members
Faculty members in the School of Occupational Therapy are engaged in impactful research and teaching across a number of areas related to occupation and health. Click on a faculty member's name to view their full profile and learn more about their work.
Liliana Alvarez
- Driving performance and fitness to drive of at-risk drivers
- Road safety
- Driving simulation and vehicle automation
- Injury prevention
- Technology in health promotion and rehabilitation
- Evidence-based practice
Mary Beth Bezzina
- Transformational Coaching
- Seating and Mobility
- Community Practice
Josh Campbell
- Vocational Assessment & Rehabilitation
- Medical-Legal Consultation
- Life Care Planning & Future Care Costing
Deborah Francis
- Anti-racism/anti-oppression policies and practices
- Community-based Participatory Research
- Shared Decision Making
Carri Hand
- Older adults’ lives in their neighbourhoods, particularly their participation in daily activities and occupations, social engagement, and mobility
- Relationships between the person and their physical and social environments; age-friendly communities; aging in place
- Strategies to create environments that support older adults’ participation and engagement in their communities
- Services and for older adults that promote their participation in activities and occupations and social connectedness
- The role of occupational therapy in primary care
- Measurement of occupational performance, participation in occupations, and quality of life, particularly in primary care setting
Jeff Holmes
- Non-pharmacological management of gait and balance impairments among individuals with Parkinson’s disease
- Exploring psychosocial support needs experienced by carepartners of individuals with Parkinson's diseas
Angie Mandich
- Exploring meaning in occupation and activity
- Investigating motor learning and motor skill acquisition in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)
- Development and testing of cognitive intervention
- Cognitive orientation to occupational performance for children with DCD
- Client-centred care
- Spirituality
- Understanding occupational engagement and participation in children
Carrie Anne Marshall
- Homelessness and poverty experienced by individuals living with mental illness and/or substance use difficulties
- Enabling health equity among persons living with mental illness and/or substance use difficulties
- Social inclusion and belonging among persons living with mental illness
- Community integration among individuals experiencing homelessness and/or mental illness/substance use difficulties
- Time use of persons living with serious mental illness
- Psychosocial impacts of boredom and meaningful activity engagement
- Qualitative and mixed methods research
- Knowledge synthesis strategies including systematic and scoping reviews
Colleen McGrath
- Age-Related Vision Loss (ARVL)
- Neighbourhood and environmental influences on occupational engagement for older adults
- Risk in older adulthood
- Intersections of ageism and ableism in shaping older adults' identities
- Technology adoption patterns in later life
Linda Miller
- Refining measurement through the use of large samples and multiple variables, using large survey databases and modeling methods
- Improving our understanding of health conditions by examining the measurement of health constructs
- Refining measurement through improving our understanding of the factors that affect measurement
Tara Pride
- Indigenous health and wellbeing
- Colonialism and anti-racism in occupational therapy
- Indigenous methods and methodologies
- Community-led and participatory research to support Indigenous Peoples and communities
Debbie Laliberte Rudman
- Disparities in occupational possibilities created through socio-political conditions and forces (e.g. post-secondary education and First Nations youth; employment, unemployment and ‘at risk’ collectives)
- Contemporary structuring and negotiation of retirement and later life work
- Critical social theory and occupational science
- Critical gerontology
- Shaping of occupation in later life, and interconnections between occupation, identity, participation, space/place and well-being
- Negotiation of precarity, chronic disability (e.g. low vision) and other transitions (e.g. migration)
- Social transformation through occupation
Lynn Shaw
- Work disruptions, transitions, ergonomics, return to work, work inequities
- Interprofessional Education
- Occupational Science
- Disability
- Chronic Pain
- Universal Design
Mike Szekeres
- Upper extremity rehabilitation and orthotic intervention clinical trials and cohort studies
- Biomechanics and kinematics of the upper limb
- Virtual care and emerging technology related to clinical measurement and interventions
Gail Teachman
- Mediators of social inclusion and exclusion and effects for disabled children’s participation & inclusion
- Moral experiences of disabled children and youth
- Social, cultural and ethical dimensions of children’s rehabilitation
- Communication impairment, augmentative & alternative communication, and the implications of dominant conceptions of ‘voice’
- Critical perspectives in occupational therapy and occupational science
- Qualitative methodologies informed by social theory, interdisciplinary studies of childhood ethics, and critical disability studies
- Ethics in participatory research approaches with young people
Rebecca Timbeck
- Interprofessional Education
- Occupational therapy practice foundations
- Analysis, understanding, and addressing the fit between the client, the environment, and the occupations that relate to caring for self and others across the life span
Trish Tucker
- Measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviours
- Physical activity promotion in the early years
- Understanding the role of childcare in supporting children's health
Sachindri Wijekoon
- Older adults
- Occupational transitions
- Social determinants of healthy aging
- Occupational justice