From Hull to Glasgow: A career in occupational therapy

For this reflection, I have taken a nostalgic journey through my memories and focussing on the academic part of my career. My first academic post was as a research assistant at the then NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, where I worked on the Practice and Service Development Initiative and was exposed …

Carolyn Hay: My Career in Five Photographs

Thank you for inviting me to be a part of this series.  I had a happy afternoon looking back through photos and thinking about my time as an occupational therapist.  I reflected that I knew about occupational therapy as a child and although it took me a while to realise it, occupational therapy was always …

Dr Anita Atwal: My Career in 5 Photographs

I thought long and hard about this, reading with real intrigue the wonderful blogs and career transitions. But for me, I  wanted to use photographs that reflect the realities of my career with authenticity and wrapped around an old-fashioned love story. Like all love stories, there are times when you fall out of love and …

Gabrielle Richards: My Career in Five Photographs

Photo 1: Gabrielle ready for placement I started my occupational therapy training at Cumberland College of Health Sciences (now part of Sydney University), Australia in 1979. The first photo is of me off to my first clinical placement at the Orange Base Hospital, in my hometown in New South Wales. I remember that feeling of …

Odeth Richardson: My Career in 5 Photographs

Photograph 1: Jamaican Proverbs Growing up on the beautiful Caribbean island of Jamaica, I was being prepared for a life of Occupational Therapy. Although I did not know it at the time, the foundations were being laid for my career. Jamaicans often quote proverbs which are metaphorical sayings that reflect the truth. Two of those …

Marc Beswick – My Career in Five Flags

At the beginning of my career, if someone had told me all the things that being an Occupational Therapist would enable me to experience, I would never have believed them! As Occupational Therapists we have unique skills and an ability to get alongside folk to find out what matters to them. We can innovate, recognise …

Elaine Hunter – My Career in Five Photographs

I was invited by Katrina Bannigan to share the story of my career as an occupational therapists in 5 photographs, to inspire our future occupational therapists so here we go…. The Start York Minister When at school in Edinburgh, like many people, I was not sure what I wanted to do. In the 1980’s going …

Dr Jenny Preston MBE, FRCOT: My Career in 5 photographs

Hi, many of you will already know me as alumni of Glasgow Caledonian University, as a practice educator or as a visiting lecturer.  I have many roles and that pretty much sums up my career as an occupational therapist.  I pride myself in being probably one of the longest standing occupational therapists as I am …

Dr Jo Watson: My Career in Five Photographs – Reflections on Learning Along the Journey

I’m honoured and humbled to have been invited by Dr Katrina Bannigan to contribute to the GCU Occupational Therapy Blog series, ‘My Career in Five Photographs’. My initial response was that wasn’t really sure that I belong amongst the august company being assembled. I don’t consider myself to be particularly remarkable … but then again, …

Dee Christie: My Career in Five Photographs

Thank you for inviting me to join this challenge - Your Career in 5 photos! What a privilege but wow, how do you use five pictures to describe 50 years in OT! Unbelievable, but 2021 marks my 50th anniversary as I started training at Dorset House in 1971.  Having the opportunity to reflect on my 50 …