Welcome to our celebration

Occupational Therapy Education Symposium

We are delighted for you to join us at our 80th Anniversary Celebration Symposium, from 5-6 July 2023!

We extend an invitation to all occupational therapy academics, students, and practitioners across the world to join our hybrid event, focused on critical discussions about occupational therapy education.

The topic for the symposium is "Occupational Therapy Education: Critical discourses on its past, present and future"

We are honored to host the following esteemed keynote speakers:

• Prof Pat de Witt (Occupational Therapy in South African Context)
• Prof Debbie Laliberte Rudman (Critical Occupational Therapy/Science)
• Dr William Mpofu (Decoloniality and Liberation)

Click on this link to register 

CPD points have been applied for 

Themes of the symposium

The following sub-themes ensue from the Symposium theme, Occupational Therapy Education: Critical discourses on its past, present and future.

1. Epistemic justice / freedom
2. Fieldwork platform / clinical training
3. Teaching methods / pedagogy
4. Occupational therapy curriculum
5. Decoloniality

We invite abstracts in these 5 sub-themes that reflect on how far we have come, where we are, and where we are going in occupational therapy education.

Call for abstracts

In true symposium style, we invite interested occupational therapists (clinician's and academics alike) and occupational therapy students to submit abstracts for review, aligned to the symposium themes.

Submit your 350-word abstract for the Symposium by clicking on this link 

Abstracts close on 5th May 2023

Please note the following:

• Please indicate the type of presentation that you would like to do (presentations can be either: oral, poster or panel)
• Preference will be given to in-person presentations 

Preliminary Programme

    

 

7 July 2022

If you are interested, you can join a city bus tour (cost + R300 – R500)

Please contact Matsie Sibeko Matsie.Sibeko@wits.ac.za indicating if you will be participating in any of these activities

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Cost

Occupational therapists and academics within Africa: 

• R1000 for both days. If you are attending in person, this includes the Symposium Cocktail event on 5 July 2023
• If you are only attending one day, the cost is R500.  This excludes the Symposium Cocktail (R300 additionally).

Occupational therapy students and/or OTTs/OTAs within Africa:

• R500 for both days, excluding the Symposium Cocktail (additional R300)
• R250 for one day

International occupational therapists, academics and students: 

• €60 for both days
• €35 for one day only

Virtual or in-person attendance is possible, at the same cost.