Resources

Network Information

Here are a couple of resources available to you introducing and giving information about the three affinity groups (BAMEOTUK, LGBTQIA+OTUK, ABLEOTUK). These documents may be useful to you if you are looking to share information about us with others:

• OT Affinity Groups Introduction (pdf)

• OT Affinity Groups Introduction (slides/.pptx)

• An Introduction to the Affinity Groups (Youtube)

• An Introduction to BAMEOTUK (5:00 version - Youtube)

• An Introduction to BAMEOTUK (9:30 version - Youtube)

Also, make sure you check out the great work being done over at DisruptOT!

Books

• Occupational Therapy Disruptors: What Global OT Practice Can Teach Us About Innovation, Culture, and Community.

  - Sheela Roy Ivlev

• Antiracist Occupational Therapy: Unsettling The Status Quo

  - Musharrat J. Ahmed-Landeryou

• Concepts in Occupational Therapy: Understanding Southern Perspectives - Sebastina Anita Dsouza, Roshan Galvaan, Elelwani L Ramugondo

• Occupational Therapy without borders; learning from the spirit of survivors - Frank Kronenberg, Salvador Simo Algado, Nick Pollard

• Occupational Therapy without borders; integrating justice with practice - Dikaios Sakellariou, Nick Pollard

• Social Occupational Therapy: Theoretical and Practical designs - Roseli Esquerdo Lopes, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano

• Trauma, Occupation & Participation - Edited by Amy Lynch, Rachel Ashcroft, Lisa Tekkel

• A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy - Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou, Frank Kronenberg

• Anti-Racism in Higher Education: An Action Guide for Change - Edited by Arun Verna

• Preparing for Professional Practice in Health and Social Care - Edited by Anita Atwal

• The Allied Health Professions: A Sociological Perspective - Susan Nancarrow and Alan Borthwick

• Towards Decolonising the University: A kaleidoscope for empowered action - Decolonising University of Kent Collective

• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of freedom - Bell Hooks

• Anti-racism in Social Work Practice - Edited by Angie Bartholdi

• The Anti-Racist Social Worker - Edited by Tanya Moore and Glory Simango

• Superior, The Return of Race Science - Angela Saint

• How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi

• How to Argue with a Racist - Adam Rutherford

• Overcoming Everyday Racism - Susan Cousins

• White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society - Kalwant Bhopal

• On Decoloniality - Walter D. Mignolo, Catherine E. Walsh

• Critical Race Theory, An Introduction - Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paula Freire

• Becoming an Ally, Breaking the cycle of oppression in people - Anne Bishop

• Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race - Reni Eddo Lodge

Journals, articles and blogs

• Ahmed-Landeryou, M. et al. (2022) 'Pause, reflect, reframe: Deep discussions on co-creating a decolonial approach for an antiracist framework in occupational therapy’, Occupational Therapy Now, March/April 2022, Volume 25. Full access: https://www.caot.ca/document/7758/OT%20Now_Mar_22.pdf

• Beagan, B. L. et al. (2022) ‘Systemic Racism in Canadian Occupational Therapy: A Qualitative Study with Therapists’, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 89(1), pp. 51–61. doi: 10.1177/00084174211066676. Full access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00084174211066676

• Emery-Whittington, I. G. (2021) ‘Occupational Justice—Colonial Business as Usual? Indigenous Observations From Aotearoa New Zealand: La justice occupationnelle : sous régime colonial comme d’habitude? Observations d’autochtones d’Aotearoa en Nouvelle-Zélande’, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 88(2), pp. 153–162. doi: 10.1177/00084174211005891.

• Fette et al. (2019) Understanding and Applying Trauma-Informed Approaches Across Occupational Therapy Settings. Full access: https://www.aota.org/-/media/corporate/files/publications/ce-articles/ce-article-may-2019-trauma.pdf

• Hammond, J.A., Williams, A., Walker, S. et al. (2019) Working hard to belong: a qualitative study exploring students from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds experiences of pre-registration physiotherapy education. BMC Med Educ 19, 372 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1821-6 Full access: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-019-1821-6#citeas

• Perspective of BIPOC OT Students, Practitioners, and Faculty on Addressing Anti-Racism in the Profession - https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/departments/occupational-therapy/perspective-bipoc-ot-students-practitioners-and-faculty-addressing

• Simaan J. (2020). Decolonising occupational science education through learning activities based on a study from the Global South. Journal of Occupational Science 27(3): 432-442  https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2020.1780937  Full access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14427591.2020.1780937

• Steed, R. (2010), Attitudes and beliefs of occupational therapists participating in a cultural competency workshop. Occup. Ther. Int., 17: 142-151. https://doi.org/10.1002/oti.299 Full access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/oti.299

• Sterman, J. and Njelesani, J. (2021) ‘Becoming Anti-Racist Occupational Therapy Practitioners: A Scoping Study’, OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 41(4), pp. 232–242. doi: 10.1177/15394492211019931.

• Special Issue: Illuminating occupations at the heart of social problems – Journal of Occupational Science 27(3). Full access: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rocc20/27/3

• Tuck, E., Yang, K.W. (2012). Decolonisation is not a metaphor  Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1(1): 1-­40   Full access: https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf  or https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/tuck_and_yang_2012_decolonization_is_not_a_metaphor.pdf

• Vazir, S., Newman, K., Kispal, L., Morin, A. E., Mu, Y. Y., Smith, M., & Nixon, S. (2019). Perspectives of Racialized Physiotherapists in Canada on Their Experiences with Racism in the Physiotherapy Profession. Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada, 71(4), 335–345. https://doi.org/10.3138/ptc-2018-39 Full access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855358/

• Yeowell G. (2013). 'Isn't it all Whites?' Ethnic diversity and the physiotherapy profession. Physiotherapy, 99(4), 341–346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2013.01.004