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Clare joined Charles Sturt University in 1997 as a member of the lecturing team in occupational therapy. She has taught across a range of subject areas including: occupational reasoning, professional practice roles and responsibilities, psychosocial occupational therapy practice, and theory, history, and philosophy of occupational therapy. In recent years, Clare has been developing her research skills and she has a passion for supervision of research students. Currently, she has been promoting academic-practitioner partnerships and communities of practice scholars as key means by which to promote and advance occupational therapy in Australia.

Roles

• Lecturer,
• Research Higher Degree Student Supervisor,
• Research Consultant

Previously, Clare was the inaugural Courses Director for School of Community Health and in that role she set up systems and processes for managing and assisting students to successfully complete their studies within the 5 undergraduate courses taught in the school. As well, she assisted course teams to provide high-quality and consistent subject and course delivery that also met the expectations of the various professions each course represents. Clare has also assisted the occupational therapy course team more specifically in reviewing and updating the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy.

Subject Delivery

In 2012, Clare has been working with research higher degree students of all levels: Honours, Masters, and Doctoral.

Innovations in Teaching

Clare has a keen interest in the use of technology in teaching. In particular, she is an early adopter of new technologies and seeks to find ways that all stakeholders in Higher Education can communicate more easily and effectively with each other, especially across the large geographic spaces that sometimes separate these parties.

Professional & Community Engagement

Clare's professional and community engagement is closely linked to her areas of research interest, particularly those of advancing occupational science and occupational therapy practice. She has a strong history of service to Occupational Therapy Australia at local, state, and national levels. For example, she is a past chairperson of the Murray Area Focus Group, a past board member of the Victorian Division, and she helped to establish the nation-wide MentorLink program, which matches inexperienced occupational therapists with mentors. Recently, Clare was asked to provide consultancy and continuing professional development to Southern Tasmania Area Health Service to assist the occupational therapists to develop a research plan that included ways of linking theory and evidence to their practice.

Roles

• Member, Occupational Therapy Australia
• Member, Australasian Society of Occupational Scientists Incorporated (ASOS Inc.)
• Member, International Society of Occupational Scientists (ISOS)
• Individual member, Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria (VICSERV)
• Journal reviewer for: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal; OTJR: Occupation,
• Participation, and Health; British Journal of Occupational Therapy; Journal of Occupational Science
  
• Research grant application reviewer for: Health Research Board Ireland

Publications

See my publications as listed in the Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO) database

• Wilding, C. (2011, online early view) Raising awareness of hegemony in occupational therapy: The value of action research for improving practice. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1630.2010.00910.x (ERA ranking = B)
• Parnell, T. & Wilding, C. (2010) Where can an occupation-focused philosophy take occupational therapy? Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 57, 345-348.
• Wilding, C. (2010). Defining occupational therapy. In, M. Curtin, M. Molineux & J. Supyk-Mellson (Eds.), Occupational Therapy and Physical Dysfunction Enabling Occupation, (6th ed., pp. 3-15). Elsevier, London, England.
• Wilding, C. & Whiteford, G. (2009). From practice to praxis: reconnecting moral vision with philosophical underpinnings. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 72(10), 434-441. (ERA ranking = C)
• Whiteford, G., Wilding, C., & Curtin, M. (2009). Writing as practice enquiry: Towards a scholarship of practice. In, J. Higgs, D. Horsfall, & S. Grace (Eds.),  Writing qualitative research on practice. (pp. 27-36) Sense Publishers, The Netherlands.
• Wilding, C. & Whiteford, G. (2008). Language, identity and representation: Occupation and occupational therapy in acute settings. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 55, 180-187.
• Somerville, L., Wilding, C. & Bourne, R. (2007). Credentialing, competency, and occupational therapy: What does the future hold? Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 54, S98-S101.
• Iannelli, S. & Wilding, C. (2007). Health-enhancing effects of engaging in productive occupation: Experiences of young people with mental illness. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 54, 285-293.
• Bynon, S., Wilding, C., & Eyres, L. (2007). An innovative occupation-focused service to minimise deconditioning in an acute hospital: Challenges and solutions.  Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 54, 225-227.
• Wilding, C. & Whiteford, G. (2007). Occupation and occupational therapy: Knowledge paradigms and everyday practice. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 54, 185-193.
• Wilding, C. (2007). Spirituality as sustenance for mental health and meaningful doing: a case illustration. Medical Journal Australia, 186(10), S67-S69. (ERA ranking = A)
• Jelinek, H. F., Wilding, C., & Tinley, P. (2006). An innovative multi-disciplinary diabetes complications screening program in a rural community: A description and preliminary results of the screening. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 12(1), 14-20. (ERA ranking = B)
• Teran, P. & Wilding, C. (2006). Being a member of a therapeutic group: experiences of people with mental illness, New Paradigm, June, 53-64.
• Wilding, C., Muir-Cochrane, E., & May, E. (2006). Treading lightly: Spirituality issues in mental health nursing. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 15, 144-152. (ERA ranking = A)
• Shepherd, J. & Wilding, C. (2006). Occupational therapy for people with ventricular assist devices. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 53, 47-49.
• Wilding, C. & Whiteford, G. (2005). Phenomenological research: An exploration of conceptual, theoretical and practical issues. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 25(3), 98-104. (ERA ranking = C)
• Wilding, C., May, E., & Muir-Cochrane, E. (2005). Experience of spirituality, mental illness and occupation: A life-sustaining phenomenon. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 52, pp. 2-9.
• Neumayer, B. & Wilding, C. (2005). Leisure as commodity. In G. Whiteford & V. Wright-St Clair (Eds.), Occupation and practice in context(pp. 317-331). Sydney: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.
• Wilding, C. (2004). Permission to speak: An example of 'giving voice' utilising Heideggerian phenomenology. In G. Whiteford (Ed.), Qualitative research as interpretive practice: Proceedings of the inaugural RIPPLE QRIP Conference 2003.  Bathurst: Charles Sturt University.
• Wilding, C., Marais-Strydom, E., & Teo, N. (2003). MentorLink: Empowering occupational therapists through mentoring. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 259-261
• Wilding, C. & Marais-Strydom, E. (2002). MentorLink: An Australian example of continuing professional development through mentoring. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 224-226.Wilding, C. (2002). Where angels fear to tread: Is spirituality relevant to occupational therapy practice? Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 49, 44-47.
• Wilding, C. (2002). There's no life without spiritual life. New Paradigm, December, 20-23.
• Wilding, C. (2000). Improving quality of life after deinstitutionalisation through "ordinary adventure": A camping experience. Journal of Leisurability, 27(1), 18-24.

Invited Speaker

• Wilding, C. (2005). Integrating spirituality, occupation and mental health.  First National Conference on Spirituality and Health, 28-29 July, South Australia: The University of Adelaide.

Conference Presentations

• Wilding, C. (2010). Realising the vision: turning desire for occupation-focused practice into reality. 15th World Federation of Occupational Therapists' Congress, 4-7 May 2010, Santiago, Chile.
• Curtin, M., Wilding, C. & Whiteford, G. (2010). Enabling occupation in practice: utilization of concepts presented in enabling occupation II.15th World Federation of Occupational Therapists' Congress, 4-7 May 2010, Santiago, Chile.
• Meads, A. & Wilding, C. (2008). "Getting into the spirit": Exploring dimensions of spirituality in the occupations of young children.OT AUSTRALIA 23rd National Conference & Exhibition, 11-13 September 2008.
• Wilding, C., Whiteford, G. & Curtin, M. (2008). Advancing scholarship of practice: An international collaboration. OT AUSTRALIA 23rd National Conference & Exhibition, 11-13 September 2008.
• Wilding, C. & Whiteford, G. (2006). Sink or swim? Creating a new future through describing occupational therapy. 14th World Federation of Occupational Therapists' Congress, 25-28 July, Sydney, Australia.
• Wilding, C. & Whiteford, G. (2005). Discovering identities through participatory action research. Qualitative Research as Interpretive Practice (QRIP) Conference, 22-23 September, Albury, NSW.
• Wilding, C., Whiteford, G., & Jelinek, H. F. (2004). Understanding how to 'live well' with type 2 diabetes: The case for qualitative investigation The Australian Health and Medical Research Congress, Sydney.
• Teran, P. & Wilding, C. (2004). Using therapy groups to build hope.TheMHS 14th Annual Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand, 1-3 September, Broadbeach, Queensland.2003
• Wilding, C. (2003). Permission to speak: An example of 'giving voice' utilising Heideggerian phenomenology. Qualitative Research as Interpretive Practice (QRIP) Conference, Sept, Albury, NSW.
• Wilding, C. (2003). Spiritually sensitive occupational therapy: Life altering and life sustaining. OT AUSTRALIA 22nd National Conference, 6???9 April, Melbourne.
• Wilding, C. (2002). There's no life without a spiritual life. The MHS 12th Annual Mental Health Services Conference, Sydney.
• Wilding, C. (2001). Stretching occupational therapists' role repertoire: Will we take on spirituality? OT AUSTRALIA 21st National Conference, Brisbane.
• Wilding, C. & Marais-Strydom, E. (2001). MentorLink: Pursuing excellence through mentoring. OT AUSTRALIA 21st National Conference, Brisbane.
• Fortune, T., Wilding, C., & Adamson, L. (1999). Contemporary practice issues: Preparing undergraduates for graduate realities. OT Australia 20th National Conference, Canberra
• Wilding, C. (1997). Initiatives in mental health education. Australian National Association for Mental Health Conference, Canberra, August

Conference posters

• Meads, A. & Wilding, C. (2010). "Getting into the spirit": Exploring dimensions of spirituality in the everyday occupations of young children. 15th World Federation of Occupational Therapists' Congress, 4-7 May 2010, Santiago, Chile.
• Wilding, C. & Whiteford, G. (2008). Everyday occupational therapy practice: a meta-analytic perspective OT AUSTRALIA 23rd National Conference & Exhibition, 11-13 September 2008.
• Eyres, L., Wilding, C., Cox, A., Jones, D., Somerville, L., Tunstall, Z., & White, C (2006). Reflections on occupational therapy at The Alfred: Evolution of theory and practice. 14th World Federation of Occupational Therapists' Congress, 25-28 July, Sydney, Australia.
• Iannelli, S. & Wilding, C. (2006). What's work got to do with it? Findings from research that explored engagement in productive occupations for young people with mental illness. 14th World Federation of Occupational Therapists' Congress, 25-28 July, Sydney, Australia.