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PhD profile Dr Alison Laver Fawcett

Alison is a Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at York St John University and Programme Lead for the Research Programme for Occupation and Older People with Mental Health Problems at the Research Centre for Occupation and Mental Health (RCOMH). She graduated as an occupational therapist in 1986 and has a PhD in Psychology (from the University of Surrey). She has worked in the UK, USA (Washington School of Medicine, St Louis) and Canada (McMaster University, Hamilton) in a range of roles including clinician, researcher, educator, modernisation manager, and professional lead. Alison was the British Association of Occupational Therapists / College of Occupational Therapists Council member for International Affairs which included representing BAOT and COT as the UK World Federation of Occupational Therapists Council delegate (June 2008 to November 2011).  Alison currently serves on the editorial board of the Occupational Therapy International Journal.

 

Research interests

Outcome measurement

  • The development of the Activity Card Sort United Kingdom version (ACS-UK).
  • The development and application of Occupational Therapy standardised assessments and outcome measures.
  • Developed The Structured Observational Test of Function (SOTOF) – doctoral and post-doctoral studies.
  • Author of ‘Principles of Assessment and Outcome Measurement for Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists: Theory, Skills and Application’ (published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd in 2007).
  • Alison was a member of the reference group for the College of Occupational Therapists ‘Developing the second SNOMED CT subsets: Occupational Therapy Outcomes’ project and contributed to the previous SNOMED project related to published assessments used by occupational therapists.
  • Alison has been a keynote speaker at a number of events including the UK Occupational Therapy Research Foundation (UKOTRF) event on occupational therapy outcome measures (March 2010).

 

People with dementia and their carers

  • Contributed to the development of the National Dementia Strategy for England by analysing the consultation data for the Yorkshire and Humber, North West and North East regions of England and writing the reports on findings from the consultation process for these 3 regions for the Department of Health. Undertook secondary data analysis for the Yorkshire and Humber and North East regions and provided reports on data analysis and recommendations on key service priorities and the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy. Contributed to the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy for Yorkshire and Humber regions.
  • Contributed to a national working group regarding a toolkit to support commissioners to commission for outcomes with people with dementia and their carers.

Alison is particularly interested in occupational engagement and measurement of occupational outcomes with people with dementia.

 

Supervision experience etc.

Co-supervisor for full time PhD student  ‘Doing dementia: the organisation of talk-in-interaction between a person with dementia and their everyday conversational partners.’

Two examinations for PhD as an external examiner both related to assessment (University of Lancaster and University of Sydney).