Gaby is Deputy Head of the Division of Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies and a Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at QMU, Edinburgh.
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Gaby joined 69传媒 in 2022 after a varied and interesting career. She qualified as an occupational therapist in 1988 from the London School of Occupational Therapy (now Brunel University London) and practiced in Australia and Germany, mainly in older adults mental health and community care. She worked for the Royal College of Occupational Therapists as their policy officer for Scotland (2012-2016).听
She enjoys relating policy to practice and using it as a tool to influence and advocate for the profession and for the people occupational therapists and the wider AHP community work with and for. She is interested in how the profession has developed internationally especially in relation to Dementia services. She is passionate about rights especially in relation to occupation and the environment for people living with dementia. She enjoys sharing knowledge and experience and also loves to learn and recently completed her MSc in International Business and Leadership at QMU. She is a mother to three grown up daughters, a lover of dogs and cats, art, travel and all things culinary.
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I am currently completing a masters in International Management and Leadership.
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I am deputy head of the division and also lecture in various areas of occupational therapy, with a focus on occupation and occupational justice. I have a special interest in dementia, frailty, ageing and dementia friendly environments. I have policy experience especially in relation to policy that impacts on the occupational therapy profession or on people living with dementia.
