Dr Georgia Spiliotopoulou
Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy
Mary Seacole 2nd Floor,Bay 41
- Email: georgia.spiliotopoulou@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268827
- Occupational Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Department of Health Sciences
- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Research area(s)
- Assistive technology
- Quality of life of people with long-term conditions
- Effectiveness of provision of occupational therapy services
- Practice guidelines development
- Evidence-based practice using mostly quantitative approaches
- Development of assessment tools
- Evaluation of reliability and validity of assessment tools
Research Interests
Assessment process and use of assistive devices and home adaptations to improve quality of life for adults with long-term conditions and older people.
Enabling people with long-term conditions to self-assess for provision of assistive devices.
Validity and reliability of assessment tools
Research grants and projects
Grants
Funder: UK Occupational Therapy Research Foundation (UKOTRF)
Duration: December 2012 - May 2016
Funder: Brunel University - Pump priming
Duration: 2010 -
Funder: Brunel University - Knowledge Transfer Scheme
Duration: 2009 -
Funder: The Higher Education Academy’s Engineering Subject Centre
Duration: 2008 -
Project details
Spiliotopoulou G (Principal Investigator), Atwal A, McIntyre A, Russell S (2012) National guidance for measuring home furniture and fittings to enable user self-assessment and successful fit of minor assistive devices. UK Occupational Therapy Research Foundation. £80,000
Atwal A, McIntyre A, Spiliotopoulou G, Money A, Elliman A (2010) Bringing the home into hospital: Preparing older patients for home discharge using 3D visualisation software. Pump priming money from Brunel University London. £1,250
Atwal A & Spiliotopoulou G (2009) Development of evidence-based practice guidelines for occupational therapists working with people with acquired brain injury. College of Occupational Therapists. £12,700
Atwal A, Spiliotopoulou G (2009) Knowledge Transfer: Collaboration between the Brunel University London Centre for Professional Practice Research and the College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section – Trauma and Orthopaedics in producing clinical guidelines for the occupational therapists working with people with lower limb amputations. £12,000
Dong H & Spiliotopoulou G (2008) Learning design through the use of simulation tools and multidisciplinary collaboration. The Higher Education Academy’s Engineering Subject Centre. £3,500
Research links
Co-author network
Similar research interests
- Professor Louise Mansfield
- Dr Raffaella Valsecchi
- Professor Olwyn Westwood
- Dr Paapa Kwesi Ampiah
- Professor Kate Hoskins
Research group(s)
- IEHS