Assoc Prof Amshuda Sonday

I am part of the Physical Health (PH) cluster. Further to this, my research interests include qualitative research and qualitative methodologies, critical occupational therapy, professional role transgression, occupational therapy identities, and roles. My PhD explored professional role transition(s) for occupational therapists in specialized education in post-apartheid South Africa from a Critical Narrative perspective. A key finding was therapists’ experiences of enacting agency within hegemony, as a form of occupational consciousness, a phenomenon I coined professional role transgression.

I supervise both undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of topics namely, physical health practice, occupational therapy identity and epistemologies, professional identity and inclusion.

Qualifications:

BSc (OT)

M Early Childhood Intervention, UP.

PhD Occupational Therapy, UCT.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9973-7413