Something for the weekend: People who see men and women as fundamentally different are more likely to accept workplace discrimination (link) A case of sick leave due to burnout (link) The Affect-Responsive Interview and In-Depth Interviewing: What We Can Learn From Therapy Research (link) Twitter...is a scrolling record of bad reading habits (link) The brain as an agentic system (link) Five common writing mistakes new scientists make (link) Was there a theological turn in phenomenology? (link) Why do our muscles stiffen as we age? (link) Sex, technology and disability (link) What does it mean to be a qualitative researcher? (link) The most important thing I … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #4
Call for chapters: Mobilising knowledge: A second critical physiotherapy reader
Submit your work for the 2nd critical physiotherapy reader to be produced by the Critical Physiotherapy Network Title: Mobilising knowledge: A second critical physiotherapy reader To go into print in early 2020. Editors: A/Prof Dave Nicholls A/Prof Rani Lill Anjum A/Prof Elizabeth Anne Kinsella A/Prof Karen Synne Groven Publisher: Routledge Outline: This book follows on from the success of the first critical physiotherapy reader – Manipulating Practices – and explores knowledge in and of physiotherapy. We want to take a critical look at the kinds of knowledge that traditionally formed the backbone of the profession, and examine how our understanding of what … [Read more...] about Call for chapters: Mobilising knowledge: A second critical physiotherapy reader
30DoS 2018 Day 13 – Susanne Rosberg
From the beginning of my PT career 1973 critically questioned the reductionistic medical and positivistic paradigms in understanding and developing physiotherapy, separating body, soul and person. Took an active part in the creative professional development of “psychiatric” and “psychosomatic” physiotherapy in Sweden in the 1970-80 – where we were starting up the section in our trade union, giving courses and implementing our thoughts of the meaning and practice of movement, body awareness, training in therapeutic relationships etc in the curricula at the PT education in Sweden. My dissertation 2000 - “Body, being and meaning in a PT perspective” was a further step into a more theoretical … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 13 – Susanne Rosberg
30DoS 2018 Day 12 – Pia Kontos
I am a Senior Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network (a rehab hospital) and an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. My training is in social science, specifically medical anthropology and sociology applied to health, illness, and health systems. You’re probably wondering how a social scientist ends up working in a rehab hospital? And why, you might ask, would I want to work in such a clinical setting? It’s a good story, one about perseverance, and a strong commitment to social justice. It started many years ago with my ethnographic doctoral study of a long-term care home, an often forgotten … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 12 – Pia Kontos
30DoS 2018 Day 11 – Blaise Doran
I came to physiotherapy later in life. My previous life was as an actor (professional, occasionally paid) and I did that for 10 years. I did love being an actor (when I was in work), but the business can be brutal and it can be easy to lose sight of one's values, so I gave it away in 1999. I had around 2 years of doing a 'proper job' while training part time as a massage therapist. I realised once I started to do massage, that I desired more from it than it could deliver, and began to look into training in other manual therapies. I settled on physiotherapy after going on a two-day observational placement at Kings College Hospital in London. This was designed to show school leavers what … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 11 – Blaise Doran
30DoS 2018 Day 10 – Hazel Horobin
I am interested in international practice, so who works, in what ways and where, and I joined the Critical Physiotherapy Network because there were people there that shared my fluid views of what physiotherapy can and could be. To this interest in practice I bring social science understandings of relationships, both organisational and interpersonal, and I use these to inform my understanding of physiotherapy practices. I teach professionalism as well as respiratory physiotherapy, and as I do this I am keen to appreciate what understandings the student is starting from. My teacher education was profoundly influenced by ‘active’ learning approaches and I try to continue with this style. … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 10 – Hazel Horobin
30DoS 2018 Day 9 – Siri Moe
My current research is about primary health services and specifically physiotherapy practice in a rural context. Due to recent reorganizations of the Norwegian health care, physiotherapists’ traditional practice need to be changed – if we want to keep our position in the public health care. To investigate into traditions of physiotherapy practice and how the profession is responding to changes within the healthcare system, we need theories that contextualize practice and shed light on what are the important issues and new ways of understanding the issues. At the moment I am taking part in developing one of our multi-professional master programs in health sciences to get extended focus on … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2018 Day 9 – Siri Moe