Staff profiles
Nick Pollard
MSc MA BA PGCE DipCOT
Phone 0114 225 2416
E-mail n.pollard@shu.ac.uk
Nick Pollard is research coordinator for occupational therapy in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research and is a senior lecturer in occupational therapy. He was appointed to this post in September 2003.
Nick graduated as an occupational therapist in 1991 from Derby School of Occupational Therapy. He gained a BA in Communication Studies from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1979, an MA in Psychiatry, Philosophy and Society in 1996 from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Occupational Therapy in 2001 from Sheffield Hallam University . He has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1986 as well as a Diploma in Radio Journalism from Falmouth Technical College in 1982.
Nick has worked in the NHS as a senior and a head occupational therapist in psychiatry. Before taking his post at Sheffield Hallam University , he was a senior occupational therapist in an assertive outreach team in South Yorkshire.
Nick 's research interests are in the areas of young people with dementia, learning difficulties, experiences of mental illness and developing community and citizenship skills through community organisations, such as publishing co-operatives (with which he has an extensive background), in order to address occupational apartheid, occupational deprivation and occupational injustice.
Nick has published in peer reviewed journals and influential texts and his work has been presented at international conferences in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. He is one of the editors of Occupational Therapy Without Borders: Learning From the Spirit of Survivors, published by Churchill Livingstone in December 2004 and recently translated into Spanish by Panamericana.
Research outputs: key publications since 2001
Articles in refereed journals
Pollard N, Sakellariou D (2009) Is doing 'good' good? Asian-Pacific Disability and Rehablitation Journal, 20(2) 53-65
Parks S, Pollard N (2009) The extra-curricular of composition: a dialogue on community publishing. Community Literacy Journal, 3(2) 53-77
Pollard N, Sakellariou D, Kronenberg F (2008) (eds) A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy Edinburgh: Elsevier Science
Pollard N. (2008) Voices Talk, Hands Write, in E Crepeau, E Cohn and B Boyt Schell, (eds) Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy 11th edition, Philadelphia: Lipincott, Williams and Wilkins 139-145
Pollard N (2008) Voices talk, hands write: sustaining community publishing with people with learning difficulties, Groupwork 17(2), 36-56
Pollard N (2007) Recovering the alliance (editorial). British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 (11) 459
Pollard N, Sakellariou D (2007) Operationalizing community participation in community-based rehabilitation: Exploring the factors, Disability and Rehabilitation 1-9 iFirst On line.
Pollard N, Sakellariou D (2007) Occupation, Education and community-based rehabilitation, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 (4) 171-174
Pollard N, Sakellariou D (2007) Sex and occupational therapy: contradictions or contraindications? British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 (8) 361-5
Pollard N, Sakellariou D (2007) Operationalizing community participation in community-based rehabilitation: Exploring the factors, Disability and Rehabilitation (In Press)
Pollard N (2006) Is dying an occupation? (comment) Journal of Occupational Science, 13, 2, 149-152
Sakellariou D, Pollard N (2006) Rehabilitation: in the community or with the community, British Journal of Occupational Therapy 69 (12) 562-7
Kronenberg F, Pollard N (2006) Political Dimensions of Occupation and the Roles of Occupational Therapy (AOTA PLENARY PRESENTATION, 2006), American Journal of Occupational Therapy 60, 6, 617-625
Pollard, N, Alsop, A, Kronenberg, F (2005) Reconceptualising Occupational Therapy, British Journal of Occupational Therapy 68, (11), 524-526
Jubb D, Pollard N, Chaston D (2003) Developing Services for younger people with dementia Nursing Times, 99 (22) 34-5
Pollard N (2002) On the line: continuing professonal development between research and practice British Journal of Occupational Therapy 65 (5) 242-3
Editorials and other reports
Pollard N, Murray B, Ferguson W, Johnson HJ (2009) From small acorns… collaboration between mental health services and the Workers Educational Association, OT News 17(7) 30-31
Bryce H, Pollard N (2009) Short term gains versus long term stability? (reflections on working with an NGO in Nigeria), OT News 17 (8) 46-47
Pollard N (2006) The baby boom: coming of age? (editorial) British Journal of Occupational Therapy 69 (6) 247
Pollard N (2006) Is dying an occupation? (comment) Journal of Occupational Science, 13
Sakellariou D, Pollard N, Fransen H, Kronenberg F, Sinclair K (2006) Reporting on the WFOT-CBR master project plan: the data collection subproject, WFOT Bulletin, 54, 37-45
Pollard N, Creek J (2005) An Occupational Therapy Odyssey (editorial) British Journal of Occupational Therapy 68 (4), 147
Kronenberg F, Fransen H, Pollard N (2005) The WFOT position paper on community-based rehabilitation: a call upon the profession to engage with people affected by occupational apartheid, WFOT Bulletin, 51, 5-13 also translated as:
Kronenberg F, Fransen H, Pollard N (2005) Una llamada a la profesión a comprometerse con población afectada por apartheid ocupacional. In Silvia Sanz Victoria y Estíbaliz García Recio (Eds.) Trascendiendo Fronteras: una vision sociopolitical de la terapia occupacional, APETO monograph, Terapia Occupacional, 38, 3-15
Pollard N, Kronenberg F (2005) El marco conceptual de las Actividades políticas de la Vida Diaria, la Rehabilitación Basada en la Comunidad y la Terapia Ocupacional. In Silvia Sanz Victoria y Estíbaliz García Recio (Eds.) Trascendiendo Fronteras: una vision sociopolitical de la terapia occupacional, APETO monograph, Terapia Occupacional, 38, 16-24
Chaston D, Pollard N, Jubb D (2004) Young onset of dementia: a case for real empowerment, Journal of Dementia Care, 12 (6) 24-6
Conference papers and presentations
Lawson-Porter A, Pollard N, Sakellariou D (2009) Will occupational science facilitate or divide the practice of occupational therapy? College of Occupational Therapists 33rd Annual Conference and Exhibition, Brighton Centre, 25 June
Pollard N, Sakellariou D (2009) Survivorship issues: the right to engagement and occupation. HIV/AIDS, Oncology, Palliative Care Annual Conference, Brighton Centre, 26 June
Pollard N (2006) Groupwork without borders, 12th European groupwork symposium, York, 13-14 July
Kronenberg F, Pollard N (2006) Getting A Handle On The Political Dimension Of Occupational Therapy, World Federation of Occupational Therapists Congress, Sydney, 25 July
Sakellariou D, Pollard N, Fransen H, Kronenberg F, Sinclair K, Pattison M, Haglund L, (2006) The WFOT-CBR project team: Reporting on the data collection subproject, World Federation of Occupational Therapists Congress, Sydney, 27 July
Pollard N (2005) Putting the 'P' in partnership and practice, Association of Occupational Therapists in Mental Health Annual Conference, Stockport
Lawson-Porter A, Pollard N, Kronenberg F (2005) Occupational therapy - a case of occupational injustice, College of Occupational Therapists Annual Conference, Eastbourne, June
Pollard N (2005) pADLing upstream: challenge and change in the workplace, Challenge and Change for Managers, College of Occupational Therapists Managers' Conference, Newcastle, November
Books and book chapters
Pollard N, Sakellariou D, Kronenberg F (2009) Community Development in M Curtin, M Molineux, J Supyk (eds) Occupational Therapy in Physical Dysfunction (6th edition), Oxford, Elsevier Science
Parks S, Pollard N (2009), The Republic of Letters (2nd) edition (expanded from edition originally edited by D Morley and K Worpole), New City Communities Press/Syracuse University Press
Pollard N, Voices Talk, Hands Write (due for publication April 2008) Voices Talk, Hands Write, in E Crepeau, E Cohn and B Boyt Schell, (eds) Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy 11th edition, Philadelphia, Lipincott, Williams and Wilkins 139-145
Pollard N, Sakellariou D, Kronenberg F, (2008) (eds), Political Practice in Occupational Therapy, Edinburgh, Elsevier Science (due for publication in May)
Pollard N, Kronenberg F, (2008) Working with people on the margins, in J Creek, L Lougher, (eds), Occupational Therapy in Mental Health (4th edition), Oxford, Elsevier Science, 557-577
Kronenberg, F, Simo Algado, S and Pollard N (2005) (eds), Occupational Therapy without borders - learning from the spirit of survivors, Oxford, Elsevier Science, (translated as Terapia Ocupacional Sin Fronteras - aprendiendo del espiritu des superivientes (2006) Madrid, Panamericana)
Pollard N (2004) Notes towards an approach for the Therapeutic Use of Creative Writing in Occupational Therapy, (book chapter) for Creative Writing in Health and Social Care, edited by Fiona Sampson, London, Jessica Kingsley, 189-206
