Dr Emmah Doig
Conjoint Senior Research Fellow in Occupational Therapy Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) Education and Research Alliance
The University of Queensland and Metro North Health
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Emmah Doig is an experienced occupational therapist and is also a mum of three teenagers, loves singing in her local community choir and is quite obsessed with cats. Emmah specialised in working with people with brain injury in Australia and United Kingdom and started a private practice providing community-based occupational therapy to people with brain injury. Emmah’s experiences of clinical practice drove her desire to be a researcher, to develop evidence for clinical interventions and to work with consumers and clinicians to co-create and co-conduct research that is translatable. Emmah is passionate about ensuring research findings are felt by and reach the people they are intended for. The magnitude of this was reinforced through feeling the personal impact of the recently released ADHD guidelines (for her son who has ADHD). Emmah conducts research in brain injury rehabilitation, person-centred care and goal setting. Emmah co-founded BRAINSPAN, a multidisciplinary, online network which brings together clinicians and researchers in the field of brain injury across Australia to share knowledge and skills and encourage the translation of research into clinical practice. Emmah also co-chairs the knowledge translation research theme in her school with Professor Sally Bennett and is a member of the steering committee for Queensland Health’s Allied Health Translating Research Into Practice (AH-TRIP) About AH-TRIP | Queensland Health. Emmah worked as a Knowledge Broker at The University of Queensland with Dr Megan Auld, helping build the capacity of researchers in Knowledge Translation and Impact. Emmah has recently co-developed with colleagues Dr Megan Auld and Professor Sally Bennett, the KTIPs – The Knowledge Translation and Impact Planner.