Professor Sylvia Rodger
2010 ALTC Teaching Fellow

Sylvia Rodger is an occupational therapist with 28 years' experience in paediatric occupational therapy as a clinician, academic and researcher. Professor Rodger is Head of the Division of Occupational Therapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland, and was a founding member of the Queensland Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Collaborative. Her areas of interest are authentic assessment, clinical education/fieldwork and inter-professional education.

Building capacity among emerging occupational therapy academic leaders in curriculum renewal and evaluation at UQ and nationally

Whole-of-program curriculum development and renewal requires an understanding of curriculum practice, the engagement of key stakeholders, evaluation of processes, and a focus on student learning outcomes. Currently, within occupational therapy programs, these facets are poorly understood.  This fellowship program focuses on curriculum development across occupational therapy (OT) programs nationally, and across the University of Queensland (UQ) teaching and learning in general. Using an embedded, sustained dissemination and evaluation approach, the program engages a cohort of emerging OT academic leaders in a community of practice designed to build capacity in curriculum development and renewal. Activities facilitating this community of practice include the implementation and evaluation of a new curriculum at UQ, and the delivery of a national symposium designed to share emerging practices. Key program outcomes include the development, evaluation and refinement of a curriculum practice framework; the development of evidence-based guidelines/resources associated with this framework; and the development of a curriculum evaluation framework to investigate student learning experiences and outcomes.

Fellowship Discipline: Occupational therapy (allied health)

Institutions: The University of Queensland

Fellowship due for completion: Late 2011

Professor Sylvia Rodger
2010 ALTC Teaching Fellow

s [dot] rodger [at] uq [dot] edu [dot] au

The University of Queensland
Queensland