Ms MADELEINE DUNCAN

Madeleine Duncan is emeritus associate professor of occupational therapy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She obtained an Occupational Therapy Masters from the University of Cape Town in 1999 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the University of Stellenbosch in 2009. Her MSc thesis focussed on occupational therapy values and transformation processes in post-Apartheid South Africa and her PhD investigated human occupation in the context of chronic poverty and psychiatric disability. She has worked in the fields of neurology, adolescent and adult mental health, community based rehabilitation, occupational therapy education and rural disability inclusive development. Her main professional and research interests are poverty, psychiatric disability, human occupation and occupational therapy education.

Madeleine was the co-editor of a textbook, Practice and Service Learning in Occupational Therapy, and has published over thirty chapters and articles in professional and educational textbooks and scientific journals. She has led longitudinal mixed method research projects over a period of ten years in remote rural communities in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa. Madeleine and her under and postgraduate students have investigated the dynamics between chronic poverty, disability and human occupation in rural isiXhosa-speaking households that have one or more members with a disabling health condition. With the translation of international and national health policies into local intersectoral service systems in mind, her research teams have implemented participatory development processes in deep rural and peri-urban communities through disability policy literacy and social activism. Madeleine regularly consults occupational therapy programmes on curriculum design and assessment practices, most recently at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar; University of Fort Hare, South Africa and Cebu Doctor’s University, Philippines. Besides her academic work, Madeleine is also a founding and faculty member of the Centre for Group Analytic Studies, a non-profit organisation that runs introductory and intermediate training programmes on group psychoanalysis for lay persons and professionals interested in groupwork processes for personal and social transformation.

SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS
• Co-founder in 2006 of the Centre for Group Analytic Studies (CGAS). Current faculty member of CGAS, an NPO providing experiential training in group facilitation to lay and professional persons who use groups to promote human and social development.
• Consultant to Beauty for Ashes, an NPO offering reintegration programs for women parolees from Pollsmoor Prison

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa and OT Africa Regional Group (OTARG)
• Health Professions Council of South Africa
• Faculty Board, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town (UCT)
• Member of Human Research Ethics Committee, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCT
• Reviewer for South African Journal of Occupational Therapy
• Reviewer for African Journal of Disability
• Reviewer for International Review of Psychiatry
• Member of Scientific Committee: OTARG International Congress 2011; OTASA National Congress, 2004 &2010; WFOT Congress 2018
• Awarded Vona du Toit Memorial Lecture by OTASA in 1998 in recognition of service to the profession in South Africa

RECENT CONSULTANCY & CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLICY DEVELOPMENT
• Consultant (in collaboration with Dr J Creek and Dr K Sinclair) to occupational therapy educators from three occupational therapy programs in Cebu City, Philippines on outcomes based education and undergraduate research
• Consultant (in collaboration with Prof R Galvaan) to University of Antananarivo, Madagascar for design and implementation of an OT program.
• Consultant to University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa for development of an OT curriculum. Planning for and documentation of two bilateral site visits to meet and workshop with stakeholders on OT curriculum design
• Panel member/consultant to Disability Action Research & Training (DART) for development of SA national policy: Framework & Strategy for Disability & Rehabilitation Services in South Africa 2015-2020
• Panel member/consultant for OT Professional Board: South Africa Government Gazette revision of OT Role & Scope 2015-2020
• Consultant: OTASA Position Statement on Groupwork in OT
• Consultant: OTASA Position Statement on OT in Primary Health Care S. Afr. j. occup. ther. Vol. 45 (3) Pretoria Dec. 2015
• Contributor: WFOT Human Rights Policy(joint submission with R. Watson on behalf of OTASA)
• Contributor: Minimum Standards for the Education of Occupational Therapists. World Federation of Occupational Therapists (joint submission with R. Watson on behalf of OTASA)

CURRENT RESEARCH
• Consensus study for Academy of Science South Africa on ‘Provider Core Competencies for Improved Mental Healthcare in South Africa’ (panel member)
• Project leader: rural villages in Mpoza sub-district , Alfred Nzo district, Eastern Cape:
o South Africa Netherlands Partnership for Alternatives in Development (SANPAD) Project 06/18: Poverty, Disability and Occupation
o South Africa Netherlands Partnership for Alternatives in Development (SANPAD) Project 09/25: People informing Policy: Power and Progress
• Co-investigator: University Cape Town (Division of OT) & OT Department of Coventry University, UK in a study funded by the British Council into mental health occupational therapy education

RECENT AND CURRENT SUPERVISION/CO-SUPERVISION OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS:
– ‘Occupations of citizenship’: the missing layer in empowered engagement between rural healthcare workers and disabled people
– A critical ethnography of the Vona du Toit Model of Creative Ability in South African Occupational Therapy
– Towards an integrative service delivery model for children with autism spectrum disorder in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
– How learning facilitators teach adults with mild and moderate intellectual disability
in learnership programs at post-school institutions in Cape Town
– An enquiry into the perspectives of service users on the role of the Interactive Group Work Model in occupational therapy groups within a specialist therapeutic psychiatric unit
– Occupational adaptation of mothers of young adults with acquired brain injury
– Survivalist street trading occupations and well-being of women street traders in the Cape Town Central Business District
– Barriers and solutions in implementing client-centered practice among occupational therapists in Tanzania
– A comparison of the quality of life between leprosy survivors living in leprosaria and those integrated in communities in the southern region of Malawi
– Rehabilitation Care Workers perceptions of the benefits of a pilot training program.
– Perceptions of recreation officers towards inclusion of visually impaired children within the Come & Play Program of the City of Cape Town.
– Service delivery and disability: the perspectives of service users on socio-economic rights in a rural community in the Eastern Cape
– The effect of sensory processing on the work performance of call centre agents in a South African context
– Community integration of male mental health care service users following participation in a residential based rehabilitation program
– An investigation into the activism of carers of adolescents with Down Syndrome in Oshana, Namibia

RECENT CONGRESS PRESENTATIONS
• Creek J, Sinclair K, Duncan M (2017) Psychosocial rehabilitation. Paper and workshop at International Forum on Mental Health, Shijiazhuang, China, 12-13 October
• Duncan M (2017) Participatory research: a strategy for disability inclusive development. 21 October, First Asia-Pacific Occupational Therapy Symposium, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• Duncan M (2017) The coping strategies of chronically poor households dealing with psychiatric disability in an informal human settlement. First Asia-Pacific Occupational Therapy Symposium, 20 October, Taoyuan, Taiwan
• Duncan M (2017) Occupational therapy service learning. Workshop presented at Occupational Therapy South Convention, Cebu City, Philippines 28 October
• Pillay S, Duncan M, de Vries P (2017) How many children with autism spectrum disorder are there in South African schools? A systematic data-base search for known cases of ASD in the Western Cape Department of Education. Poster presented (S Pillay) at SAACAPAP conference (Stellenbosch) and oral presentation at IMFAR (India)
• Duncan M, Mayers P (2015) Partnering for change: health therapists and community rehabilitation workers. Paper & poster presented (P Mayers) at SAAHE (Johannesburg), RuReSA (Durban) and Group Analysis (London) conferences
• Duncan M (2015) Rurality, poverty and disability: the contribution of rehabilitation to social inclusion and development. Paper & poster presented at UCT Poverty and Inequality Initiative Symposium, University of Cape Town
• Duncan M, Galvaan R, Ramugondo E (2015): Unpacking theorising: conversations towards collective African perspectives on professional discourse. Workshop presented at OTARG Conference, Uganda, 7-11 September.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
• Duncan M, Ramachandran M, D’Souza SA (2018) Ethics and professionalism in occupational therapy practice. In R Galvaan, E Ramogondo, SA D’Souza (Eds) Concepts in Occupational Therapy: understanding Southern Perspectives. Manipal Press, pp
• Duncan M, McKenzie J, Ferguson G, Petersen L (2018) Disability and rehabilitation in primary health care. In David Coetzee (Ed) Primary Health Care: Fresh Perspectives. Cape Town: Pearson, pp203-236
• Sassen S, Galvaan R, Duncan M (2018 in press) Women’s experiences of informal street trading and well-being in Cape Town, South Africa. South African Journal of Occupational Therapy
• Cloete L, Japtha M, Duncan M (2018 in press) Decolonizing imposed occupation: a preventative strategy for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. In H Van Bruggen, N Pollard, S Kantartzis (Eds) Occupation-based social inclusion. London: Whiting Birch
• Duncan M (2016) Development reasoning in community practice. In M.B. Cole & J. Creek (Eds) International perspectives on professional reasoning. SLACK Inc. pp 203-238
• Duncan M, Hajwani Z (2015) Psychosocial rehabilitation. In S.E. Baumann (Ed) Primary Care Psychiatry: a practical guide for southern Africa. Cape Town: Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd. pp 723-740
• Ramugondo ER, Galvaan R, Duncan EM (2015) Guest Editorial: Theorising about occupation S. Afr. j. occup. ther. vol.45 n.1 Pretoria Jan./Apr. 2015