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Alison
Wicks (PhD, MHSc(OT), BAppSc(OT), AccOT) is an occupational therapist with thirty years of experience in a broad range of fields, in both the public and private sector. For the past thirteen years she has been passionate about occupational science, and has a deeply held conviction that occupational justice must be a defining feature of a progressive society. Currently, she is the Founding Director of the Australasian Occupational Science Centre (AOSC) which has recently been established at the University of Wollongong. Alison is also the project leader of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists International Advisory Group: Occupational Science, President of the International Society of Occupational Science and a member of the Editorial Team of the Journal of Occupational Science. |
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Hugh Stewart (B Ed (JP/P), M App Sc OT, B App Sc OT, AccOT)
has over 20 years experience as an occupational therapist working in paediatrics, assistive technology and as a lecturer at the University of South Australia. He is particularly interested in children’s health, and in how the education and health sectors can work together to promote health and wellbeing. He has a longstanding and abiding fascination with technology and how people use it to improve their lives. |
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Mandy
Stanley (PhD, MHSc(OT), BAppSc) is a lecturer in occupational therapy and occupational science at the School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia. She has been interested in occupational science for a number of years having witnessed "the birth" of the science in Australia in the office next door, that of her former work colleague, Professor Ann Wilcock. Mandy's passion and commitment is demonstrated by her teaching occupational science at the under-graduate level, her role as sub-Editor of the Journal of Occupational Science and in her research interests. Her research activities and supervision of research students focus on occupational transitions, occupational adaptation and enabling occupational therapy students to achieve their occupational potential. She has recently completed her PhD studying older people’s perceptions and understandings of well-being. |
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Heleen
Blijlevens (MHSc, NZROT) joined the ASOS team as Vice President (NZ) in 2002. Currently she lectures full-time at AUT University within the Department of Occupational Science and Therapy teaching across all 3 years of the occupational therapy programme. Heleen worked for 10 years in the physical rehabilitation field prior to this, stopping her clinical practice as a senior community occupational therapist and clinical supervisor. In 2008 she took on the Direct Marketing role on the sub-editorial team of the Journal of Occupational Science. She is about to begin her PhD journey in 2009 in an area she feels passionately about which will broadly be looking at enabling occupation in practice. |
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