Sam Pywell
Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Social Prescribing Unit Coordinator (Principal Lecturer)
School of Sport and Health Sciences
Sam teaches across the BSc and MSc Occupational Therapy courses. Sam is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Sam also supervises postgraduate student research projects.
Lecturing in Occupational Therapy, Sam works within the Occupational Therapy team to deliver teaching within the BSc and MSc pre registration courses.
As a lecturer, Sam is responsible for the teaching the foundations of practice in occupational therapy, therapeutic skills and professional reasoning, communication and digital skills. Sam works within the occupational therapy team to support students on placement also. Sam is the social media lead for NWRCOT (job share), an active member within the DigiLearn community and sector, and is a volunteer with Remap.
Experience
Sam worked at UCLan as a Practice Learning Support Tutor for several years before getting this role as a lecturer.
Before joining UCLan, Sam worked in the NHS for over 10 years as an occupational therapist in the community, and has held roles with social services, NHS England and the CQC. Sam's background before this includes work with the outdoor education. In 2008 she commenced an MSc, and in 2012 commenced a PhD, both within the field of anxiety and stress in palliative care.
Volunteer with Remap.
- BSc (hons) Occupational Therapy, University of Cumbria, 2005
- MSc Allied Health Practice, UCLan 2011
- Royal College of Occupational Therapy, Institute of Social Psychiatry Award (x3)
- TEL
- Gamification in T & L
- Creativity in T & L
- TECS
- Chatbots
- Digital AHP agenda
- Anxiety and stress in palliative care
- Royal College of Occupational Therapists
- Health and Care Professions Council
- Coordinator: Social Prescribing Unit at UCLan (socialprescribing@uclan.ac.uk)
- member & co-founder of @AbleOTUK
- NWRCOT Social Media co-lead @NW_RCOT
- @UCLanOT social media co-lead
- Social Prescribing Unit Social Media lead @UCLanSocPres
- Member & Co-host of #OTalkDigiLearn Champion
- DigiLearn sector key contributor
- MIE expert
- MCE educator
Sam completed her MSc dissertation in 2011 on a critical literature review of anxiety management in palliative care, and is currently completing a research project on the interpretations of anxiety and stress in palliative care using linguistics.
Blogs and social media
- #OTalk Tuesday 8th Feb 2022 – Social Prescribing – past, present and future with @smileyfacehalo
- Hybrid classrooms in HE: Re-conceptualising the concept of attendance
- How to develop a chatbot to support your educators and students
- The reasonable adjustment/request of dialing in to education: Being an anti-ableist educator in face-to-face classrooms
Use the links below to view their profiles:
- View their unique and persistent identifier on the ORCiD registry
- Full list of publications and articles on CLoK
- RCOT Institute of Social Psychiatry award
- How to develop a chatbot to support your educators and students (2021)
- Leveraging the potential of AI in Microsoft Azure bot service conference (2020) Creating chatbots for online simulation : SIM in Microsoft Teams for health and social care students
- Royal College of Occupational Therapy annual conference (2019) Floating heads: enhancing the student experience
- Royal College of Occupational Therapy, 2017, Anxiety and stress
Telephone:+44 (0)1772 8966362
Email: Email:Sam Pywell
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