“Bah humbug!”: a Dickensian reflection of 2022 by Chris Lovegrove

Welcome back to the next instalment of my series on the GCU Occupational Therapy Blog, ‘Occupational Fellow-py’ and the final for 2022. If this is your first time reading this, hello, and you can find out a bit about me here and here.  You can also read previous posts in the series here. Well, 2022 has …

The International Conference Survival Guide by Chris Lovegrove

Welcome back to another instalment of the GCU Occupational Therapy Blog series, ‘Occupational Fellow-py’. A bit delayed and later than anticipated, but here it is!  If this just happens to be your first time reading this blog; hello, bonjour, hola, asalaam alaikum, konnichiwa! You can find out a bit about me here and here. I …

We are now recruiting! You can help to design a new Occupational Therapy intervention

If you are a reader of this blog, you may already know that I am currently an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow. I am working with Professor Katrina Bannigan (Glasgow Caledonian University), Professor Jonathan Marsden (University of Plymouth), and Dr Ingrid Sturkenboom (Radboud UMC) to develop a new occupation-based complex intervention to help people with …

Complex Interventions: increasing the impact and adoption of Occupational Therapy

Happy New Year! I hope that you have all had a good break and feel revitalised for 2022. Welcome back to the next instalment of my series on the GCU Occupational Therapy Blog, ‘Occupational Fellow-py’, and the first of 2022.  If this is your first time reading this, hello, and you can find out a …

Three reflections from the best e-learning I have ever done (so far!)

Welcome to the first instalment of my new series on the GCU Occupational Therapy Blog, ‘Occupational Fellow-py’. My name is Chris Lovegrove, and I’m an occupational therapist of coming up to thirteen years now. My clinical speciality is neurology, in particular Parkinson’s and traumatic brain injury. I am an active clinical academic, and I have …