Today I finally got to meet the wonderful Kobie Boshoff. Kobie is senior lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Director at the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (iCAHE) and Editor of a new journal, The Allied Health Scholar. She has recently returned from South Africa, which is why we hadn’t got round to meeting, up to […]
Application of dual process clinical reasoning to activity analysis
I had my first class at UniSA yesterday. It included six first year occupational therapy students doing an activity analysis of a woman hanging a sheet on her washing life. This was a wonderful group to have some in depth conversations with. I love first years, especially when they include practice managers, creative animators, sleep […]
Making an introduction
14/5/22 (How was I an OT today?) Yesterday I attended my first professoriate lunch – there was intelligent company, vibrant conversations and good food. It’s all one would expect of such a company – and, as one would expect, I was called on to introduce myself. Fortunately, I was given a slight ‘headsup’ earlier in […]
Cecilie Bearup’s smile: the Mona Lisa of occupational therapy
How was I an OT today? 4 5/5/22 How do we learn? How do we know things? I am still in my first week of ‘the new job’ and there is much sifting to be done about the information that is relevant and that which will be lost. There are particular things that strike me […]