Valerie Wright-St Clair

Valerie A. Wright-St Clair is a New Zealand registered occupational therapist, ^[1] occupational scientist and Professor of Social Gerontology and Occupational Science in the School of Health Sciences at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Academic career

Wright-St Clair's mother was a nurse and father a general practitioner. She completed her secondary education in Hamilton. She qualified as an occupational therapist in 1984, then practised in New Zealand hospitals and at Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland. ^[2]

Her career in academia began in October 1990 when she was appointed lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. ^[2] In 2008 she completed a doctoral thesis titled 'Being aged' in the Everyday: uncovering the meaning through elders' stories through the University of Auckland, supervised by Ngaire Kerse and Elizabeth Smythe. ^[3] In November 2018 Wright-St Clair was appointed full professor at AUT with effect from 1 January 2019. ^{[4] [5]}

She is co-director of the AUT Centre for Active Ageing ^{[1] [6]} and joint head of research in the Occupational Science and Therapy department at AUT. ^[7]

Selected works

Books

• Whiteford, Gail; Wright-St. Clair, Valerie (2005), Occupation and practice in context, Elsevier Churchill Livingstone
• Wright St-Clair, Valerie A.; Reid, Duncan; Shaw, Susan; Ramsbotham, Joanne, eds. (2014), Evidence Based Health Practice, Oxford University Press, ISBN   978-0-19-559659-5

Articles

• Shoba Nayar; Valerie A Wright-St Clair (1 December 2018). "Strengthening Community: Older Asian Immigrants' Contributions to New Zealand Society". Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology . 33 (4): 355–368. doi:10.1007/S10823-018-9357-5. ISSN   0169-3816. PMID   30209720. Wikidata   Q56885779.
• Gary Cheung; Valerie Wright-St Clair; Emme Chacko; Yoram Barak (10 August 2019). "Financial difficulty and biopsychosocial predictors of loneliness: A cross-sectional study of community dwelling older adults". Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 85: 103935. doi:10.1016/J.ARCHGER.2019.103935. ISSN   0167-4943. PMID   31446186. Wikidata   Q92846730.
• Daniel W O'Brien; Sandra Bassett; Valerie Wright-St Clair; Richard J Siegert (10 April 2020). "Can the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scales be adapted for use in the context of osteoarthritis with general practitioners and physiotherapists?". BMC Rheumatology. 4: 15. doi: 10.1186/S41927-020-0116-1 . ISSN   2520-1026. PMC   7147025 . PMID   32309777. Wikidata   Q92071332.
• Jed Montayre; Stephen Neville; Ihaka Dunn; Jagamaya Shrestha-Ranjit; Valerie Wright-St Clair (29 June 2020). "What makes community-based physical activity programs for culturally and linguistically diverse older adults effective? A systematic review". Australasian Journal on Ageing . doi:10.1111/AJAG.12815. ISSN   1440-6381. PMC   7818171 . PMID   32597566. Wikidata   Q96768800.

References

1. "Dr Valerie Wright-St Clair". Age Concern New Zealand. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
2. "'Older people's meaningful participation in inclusive communities': a public lecture by Valerie Wright-St Clair – 2019 Events – AUT". www.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
3. Wright-St Clair, Valerie A. (2008). 'Being aged' in the Everyday: uncovering the meaning through elders' stories (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/3080.
4. "New Professors and Associate Professors announced". AUT NZ. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
5. "Congratulations to Professor Valerie Wright St. Clair". Occupational Therapy New Zealand Whakaora Ngangahau Aotearoa. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
6. "Our people". AUT Centre for Active Ageing. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
7. "Occupational Therapy". AUT New Zealand. Retrieved 9 January 2021.

External links

• Valerie Wright-St Clair publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Valerie Wright-St Clair on LinkedIn
• Valerie Wright-St Clair on Twitter