CURRICULUM VITAE

ASEV Research and Development Consultants
P.O. Box 4953,

Tyger Valley

7536
Tel: 021 – 976 0126     Cell: 083 6268461     
Fax:  021 – 976 0924

e-mail:  blinc@telkomsa.net

 

 

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE AND AFFILIATIONS

 

• Ten years’ experience of developing and managing community service programmes
• Five years’ experience of designing therapeutic intervention programmes
• Twenty-seven years’ experience as lecturer in Research Methodology
• Registered occupational therapist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and with the Professional Board of Occupational Therapy
• Member of the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA)

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 

1975    National Diploma in Occupational Therapy (University of Pretoria)
1981    B.A. Hons in Communications (UNISA)
           Research Project: Television’s potential in combating illiteracy amongst South African Blacks (cum laude)
1982    Post-graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education (University of Pretoria)
1998    M. Ed. in Higher Education (cum laude) (University of Stellenbosch)
            Thesis:  The effect of fieldwork on the nature of students’ clinical reasoning
2006    Post-graduate Diploma in Programme Monitoring and Evaluation (cum laude) (University of Stellenbosch)
           Evaluation Project: Evaluation of a service learning module for final year occupational therapy students at the Stellenbosch University

 

REGISTRATION WITH PROFESSIONAL BODIES

 

Health Professions Council of South Africa
Professional Board of Occupational Therapy

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Clinical experience:
1975 – 1980    Senior Occupational Therapist – Westfort Leprosy Hospital
Main responsibilities:

• Development and implementation of a pre-discharge work preparation programme for adult patients with permanent disabilities
• Therapeutic intervention programme for acute patients

Educational experience

1980 – 1989    Lecturer, Department of Occupational Therapy, MEDUNSA
Main responsibilities:

• Research Methodology – final-year education programme
• Research Methodology – honours programme
• Applied Occupational Therapy (physical conditions)

 

1989 – 1998    Senior Lecturer, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Durban-Westville
Main responsibilities:

• Pre-clinical subjects : Kinesiology
• Occupational Therapy practice (physical conditions)
• Research Methodology (fourth-year year students)
• Clinical supervision of third- and fourth-year occupational therapy students (therapeutic and rehabilitative programmes)

 

1998 – 2007    Lecturer, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Stellenbosch
Main responsibilities:

• Pre-clinical subjects: Kinesiology
• Occupational Therapy practice (physical conditions)
• Research Methodology and Statistics (third- and fourth-year year students)
• Qualitative research methodology (post-graduate master’s programme)
• Clinical supervision of third- and fourth-year occupational therapy students (community rehabilitation; service learning)

2008:   Part-time lecturer and clinical supervisor, University of Stellenbosch

 

Research capacity building

• Supervision of final-year pre-graduate students at Medunsa, the University of Durban-Westville and the University of Stellenbosch
• Supervision of post-graduate students at the Universities of Stellenbosch and the Western Cape
• External examination of post-graduate and final-year students at the Universities of Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Durban, Western Cape and Cape Town

 

Community work

1998 – present:  Development and management of community rehabilitation services in the Bishop Lavis Area
2006 – 2007:      Development of a youth programme in the Bishop Lavis area

Paper presented at an international conference

2007: Revisiting service learning from an allied health profession perspective.  International Conference on Service Learning, Indianapolis, USA

 

Recent publications

2005:   Establishing South African grip-strength norms for adults.  2005. South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 35 (1).  
2008:   A process-oriented approach to students’ clinical reasoning. Submitted to the South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, January, 2008.