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Guiding Question
Guiding Question
A continuing question has shaped much of my scholarly life:
How do everyday occupations enable persons to form identity, sustain belonging, and create meaning across the life course?
A continuing question has shaped much of my scholarly life:
How do everyday occupations enable persons to form identity, sustain belonging, and create meaning across the life course?
The activities listed below unfold in more than one direction—including scholarship grounded in this question and ongoing professional and civic engagements that contribute to the shared work of community life.
The activities listed below unfold in more than one direction—including scholarship grounded in this question and ongoing professional and civic engagements that contribute to the shared work of community life.
Current Scholarship in Progress
Current Scholarship in Progress
My scholarly interests continue to focus on the evolving relationships among identity, narrative, participation, and meaning in human life, particularly within the rapidly changing social and technological context of the twenty-first century.
My scholarly interests continue to focus on the evolving relationships among identity, narrative, participation, and meaning in human life, particularly within the rapidly changing social and technological context of the twenty-first century.
Two interrelated projects currently guide this work:
Two interrelated projects currently guide this work:
Identity, Narrative, and Belonging Across Culture and Time: A Reconsideration of Occupation as the Architecture of Meaning
Identity, Narrative, and Belonging Across Culture and Time: A Reconsideration of Occupation as the Architecture of Meaning
I am currently writing a reflective follow-up to my 1999 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture, Occupation as Identity. The essay reexamines the original thesis in light of a markedly changed cultural landscape, asking how identity is formed and sustained within a digitally textured and socially shifting world. It argues that identity remains a storied and relational process, grounded in everyday occupation, but that belonging—especially among those whose identities have been marginalized, disrupted, or reshaped by trauma—must be understood as an essential condition of personhood.
I am currently writing a reflective follow-up to my 1999 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture, Occupation as Identity. The essay reexamines the original thesis in light of a markedly changed cultural landscape, asking how identity is formed and sustained within a digitally textured and socially shifting world. It argues that identity remains a storied and relational process, grounded in everyday occupation, but that belonging—especially among those whose identities have been marginalized, disrupted, or reshaped by trauma—must be understood as an essential condition of personhood.
Re-visioning the PEOP Model for the emerging era of Artificial Intelligence
A second project considers how the Person–Environment–Occupation–Participation (PEOP) framework may be reinterpreted for a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, global interdependence, and changing forms of participation in everyday life. This work seeks a more international and participatory understanding of occupation, one that is attentive to issues of access, belonging, and social inclusion.
A second project considers how the Person–Environment–Occupation–Participation (PEOP) framework may be reinterpreted for a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, global interdependence, and changing forms of participation in everyday life. This work seeks a more international and participatory understanding of occupation, one that is attentive to issues of access, belonging, and social inclusion.
Ongoing Professional Engagement
Ongoing Professional Engagement
My current professional activities include:
My current professional activities include:
—Graduate study toward the Master of Public Health degree, James Lind Institute, Geneva, Switzerland (in progress)
—Graduate study toward the Master of Public Health degree, James Lind Institute, Geneva, Switzerland (in progress)
—Revision (with Haertl & Cezar de Cruz). A Contextual History of Occupational Therapy, In Gillen, Brown & Rider (eds) Willard & Spackmans Occupational Therapy (15th Ed). Published by Wolters Kluwer.
—Revision (with Haertl & Cezar de Cruz). A Contextual History of Occupational Therapy, In Gillen, Brown & Rider (eds) Willard & Spackmans Occupational Therapy (15th Ed). Published by Wolters Kluwer.
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