About us

Participation in Everyday Life is comprised of researchers from a number of disciplines, including occupational therapy, psychology, sociology and orthoptics. They are involved in a wide range of research tied together by the common theme of promoting participation in everyday life – particularly for children and adults with disability.

A sample of the research being conducted by the group includes:

• increasing activity in children through play,
• assessing fitness to drive,
• defining recovery from mental illness,
• measuring quality of life in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy,
• motivation for stereotyped and repetitive behaviours in children with autism and intellectual disability
• the effects of meaningful activity on unemployed youth
• measuring quality discretionary time
• reframing healthy risk taking
• dealing with everyday problem behaviours of children with autism