RTRU Senior Lecturer, Dr Fiona Graham,  work on Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC; a parent-coaching intervention) has lead to a new collaborative research partnership with clinical researchers in Hong Kong.  Recently this group was awarded a grant by the Research Fund Secretariat from Food and Health Bureau, under the Health Care Promotion Scheme in Hong Kong […]

RTRU has recently received a new funding grant from the Royal Society Te Apārangi to support a brand new research collaboration between occupational therapy researchers from Japan and Māori, Pacific, and Pākehā researchers in New Zealand.  Lead by yours truly (William Levack), this project involves the development and testing of a) an English-language version and b) […]

I’ve been at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Conference in Atlanta, USA, this week.  My main reason for going was to promote the work of Cochrane Rehabilitation to our North American colleagues.  However, I also had the opportunity of collaborating with a great group of academics and clinicians from the US for a […]

Whoop! Kerry Thornton and I have just published a new paper about the experiences of working-aged adults living in institutional residential care settings intended for much older people.  This qualitative metasynthesis arose from some work that Kerry did with me as a mini-research project towards her MHealSc(Rehabilitation).  This review was challenging to conduct because of […]

Goal attainment scaling (GAS) is a popular method for individualized outcome measurement, but it comes with problems that limit its application.  This video provides an overview of why GAS appears attractive as an outcome measure, but also presents some seldom discussed criticisms of its application.  

A huge congratulations from RTRU to Dr Emily Thomas who was, just this month, awarded her PhD!  Emily’s thesis is entitled “Development of a measure of sense of self following traumatic brain injury” and can be downloaded from the OUR Archive website (click here for a direct link). In addition to a number of conference […]

The management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has transformed in recent decades so the inflammatory arthritis is often well controlled with medications used in a treat-to-target strategy.  This “T2T” strategy requires measurement of RA disease activity using validated measures and increasing treatment until disease remission or at least a low disease activity state is achieved.  Currently […]

We created a new YouTube channel just for RTRU!  Here’s my first ever video for our new channel, which is on the topic of how to write a discussion chapter or section in a Masters or PhD thesis or for a publication in an academic journal.  

Just this month, my colleagues and I were award a significant research grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand to undertake a feasibility study to test a brief self-management intervention for people who have been admitted to hospital for problems with chronic obstructive lung disease.  I am undertaking this study with colleagues from […]

RTRU PhD candidate, Rachelle Martin, attended the New Zealand Riding for the Disabled (NZRDA) national training days (27-28 May 2017) to provide preliminary feedback for her research evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutic horse riding to NZRDA board members, riding coaches and RDA group managers. The programme of study has included three phases of research: two […]