Occupational Therapy

As an Occupational Therapy PhD student at the University of Brighton you will be able to develop your expertise in an area of clinical or professional practice and advance your knowledge, understanding and application of research methodologies.

The diversity of PhDs in Occupational Therapy Occupational Therapy is as broad as the profession itself. You may wish to focus on an aspect of clinical practice such as physical/mental health, learning disabilities, older people, paediatrics, diverse practice, social care.

Key facts

 As an occupational therapy PhD student at the University of Brighton University of Brighton , you will benefit from:

• a team of two or sometimes three supervisors (from both within and outside occupational therapy) and a range of developmental opportunities to help challenge and broaden their academic and professional thinking. desk space and access to a desktop PC.  

• access to a range of electronic resources via the university’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries. 

Staff have particular expertise and interest in:

• Transition from adolescence to adulthood for those living with cerebral palsy

• Occupational therapy in diverse settings

• The impact that technology has on the therapeutic environment within areas related to occupational therapy

• Occupational therapy with people with intellectual disabilities (learning disabilities), in particular those with complex needs/ profound intellectual and multiple disabilities

• Supporting and enabling people with intellectual disabilities to engage in occupations and promoting occupational justice

• Ethical means of involving those who may not have capacity as research participants in order that their needs may be researched and their support improved

• Lived experiences of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people: issues of human occupation, exclusion, isolation and health and social care

• Human occupation and older people