Tadhg Stapleton

Biography

Tadhg Stapleton joined the lecturing staff in the Discipline of Occupational Therapy in Trinity College Dublin in 2001. Prior to taking up his current post he worked as an occupational therapist in Ireland, UK, and USA, principally in the areas of adult neurological rehabilitation and older adult rehabilitation in both hospital and community settings. He is currently Head of the Discipline of Occupational Therapy since July 2015, and oversees the delivery of the four year undergraduate degree programme and the one year occupational therapy degree programme (Singapore). His research interest include driving and community mobility for people with medical conditions, outcomes of occupational therapy interventions across a variety of clinical conditions including stroke, dementia and mild cognitive impairment, inflammatory arthritis, obesity, prolonged disorders of consciousness and others.

Research Interest

 Main area of research interest is in the area of community mobility and driving for people with disabilities, particularly those after stroke, brain injury, and age related cognitive decline. Currently co-supervising a PhD study on driving and depression. Other research interests include supporting and implementing clinical based research directly stemming from specific areas of occupational therapy practice. Areas of research include occupational therapy memory strategy training programme for people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia, impact of providing care for people with progressive disorders of consciousness on informal family caregivers, occupational impact of obesity and piloting an occupational therapy intervention programme for people with obesity, impact of inflammatory arthritis on employment and wider participation, as well as continued clinical based research on occupational therapy input in the assessment of fitness to return to drive for people with medical conditions and associated disability.