Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Allied Health Professions
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Tel: 01227 782469
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Campus: Canterbury
Background and research interests:
Eve is an occupational therapy service manager and researcher. Her research interests focus on multiagency working to meet the needs of children with disabilities, with the aim of improving their health and well being and increasing their participation and engagement at home and school. Recent work includes schemes of work designed to promote closer partnership working between teachers in mainstream primary schools and occupational therapists in East Kent through the occupational therapy into schools project. This led to early intervention and improved services for children with mild to moderate coordination difficulties in schools. Development of the A-Z of postural care, a research informed resource designed to support parents and teachers who are responsible for managing the postural care needs of disabled children. Recent funding from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) will examine if an educational approach to supporting those who care for children with postural care needs is effective.
Current and recent projects:
Posture & Mobility Group Research Award (2008) £ 5,000 Funding awarded to carry out a pilot project exploring the views of teachers and teaching assistants who care for children with physical disabilities in mainstream schools.
TDA Research & Development Award (2007-2009) £18,000 Funding awarded to develop and pilot research informed teaching resources for mainstream schools designed to promote the motor and sensory skills of young children.
Kent County Council – Standards Fund (2010) £7,000 Award to further develop research informed teaching resources for primary schools in order to link with Healthy Schools objectives.
National Institute of Health Research (2011) 240,000 Award to explore educational program designed to support teachers and parents who care for children with postural care needs at home and school.
Recent publications:
Hutton E, Coxon K ( 2008) Involving parents as service users in an interprofessional research project. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 22 (6): 661-663.
Hutton E (2008) Back to school –piloting an occupational therapy service in mainstream schools in the UK . Reflective Practice. 9 (4) 461-472.
Hutton E (2008) Postural management for children with physical disabilities in mainstream primary schools – a pilot study of the views of teachers and teaching assistants. Posture and Mobility 25 ( 2) 21 – 22.
Hutton E, (2009) Occupational Therapy in mainstream primary schools: an evaluation of a pilot project. British Journal of Occupational Therapy. British Journal of Occupational Therapy 72 (7) 308-313.
Brown T, Mu K, Peyton CG, Rodger S, Stagitti K, Hutton E, Casey J Watson C, Swee Hong C, Huang Y, Wu C (2009) Occupational therapy students' attitudes towards individuals with disabilities: A comparison between Australia, Taiwan, the UK and the US. Research in Developmental Disabilities (30) 1541-1555.
Hutton E, Soan S (2010) Skills for primary schools: movement and coordination resources. Support for Learning. 25 (3) 116-120.
Hutton E, Coxon K (2011) 'Posture for learning': meeting the postural care needs of children with physical disabilities in mainstream primary schools in England – a research into practice exploratory study. Disability and Rehabilitation. http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/09638288.2010.54483