I am a professor in occupational therapy at Brunel University in London and Jonkoping University, Sweden.

My interests are encouraging students' scientific enquiry of the transactional influences on occupational performance, and aiming to develop students' clinical reasoning and therapeutic skills. Research interests take an ecological approach to understanding challenges to participation for children and young people, especially arts in science.

Research since my Fellowship in 1990 continues to explore psychosocial impacts of disability in childhood and development of interventions to optimise outcomes for young people. Extensive international collaborations have enabled research into the neuroplasticity of sensory-motor learning and virtual reality in rehabilitation.

Since my Fellowship, I have produced 120 publications, including seminal papers on neuroplasticity of motor skill acquisition and treatment response of children with hemiplegia, movement behaviour in childhood disability and a recent book, Participation Optimising Outcomes in Childhood-Onset Neurodisability, published by MacKeith Press.