Overview
Background
Tim Barlott is an Associate Lecturer in Occupational Therapy (School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences), PhD candidate in Sociology (School of Social Sciences), and Co-Director of the SocioHealthLab. Tim has a background as a community practitioner, educator, and community-based participatory researcher in Canada, Australia, and internationally.
Drawing from (critical) social theory and postmodern philosphy, Tim's research interrogates the socio-political aspects of everyday life and social inequities, and pursues affirmative/disruptive/transformative possibilities. Tim's research primarily uses the work of postmodern philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Their work provides a useful set of theoretical tools for conceptualising social inequities, analysing the dynamic relations of complex social formations, and pursuing transformational change. Using a Deleuzio-Guattarian conceptual framework, Tim's PhD research explores the transformative potential of freely-given relationships for people diagnosed with a severe mental illness.
Current Research Projects:
- Cartographies of freely-given relationships in mental health (PhD project)
- Ethical tensions in occupational therapy practice that attends to social inequities
- Theorising the creativity and social production of occupation
- Social connectedness and ICT use by people with intellectual/learning disabilities
Availability
- Dr Tim Barlott is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta
- Masters (Coursework) of Science in Rehabilitation Science - Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta
Research interests
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Critical occupational science
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Sociology of health
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Social transformation
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Community Mental health
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Micropolitics
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Connectedness
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Community development
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Poststructuralism
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New materialism
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Posthumanism
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Social theory
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Citizenship
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Community-based participatory research (CBPR)
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Post-qualitative research
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Qualitative research
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Postmodernism
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Deleuze and Guattari
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Social movements
Works
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2014
Conference Publication
Backpage project: Sexual exploitation outreach using mobile phones
Gow, G. and Barlott, T. (2014). Backpage project: Sexual exploitation outreach using mobile phones. Sexual Exploitation Working Group Conference 2014, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 22-26 April 2014.
2014
Conference Publication
Project Backpage - Initiating Outreach with Text Messaging
Gow, G., Quinn, K. and Barlott, T. (2014). Project Backpage - Initiating Outreach with Text Messaging. 11th Annual Human Trafficking, Prostitution, and Sex Work Conference, Toledo, OH, United States, 18-19 September 2014.
2013
Conference Publication
Social media and text messaging: knowledge sharing in partnership with Metis settlements
Fletcher, Fay, Barlott, Tim, Hibbert, Alicia, Robertson, Fiona, Gow, Gordon, Belhumeur, Matthew and Ladouceur, Susan (2013). Social media and text messaging: knowledge sharing in partnership with Metis settlements. 2013 Health Research Transfer Network of Alberta (RTNA) Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, 9-11 October 2013.
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Tim Barlott is:
- Available for supervision
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