News Update
CAOT Congress
Occupational Science Stream at the CAOT Congress 2009
Science de l'occupation au congres 2009 de l'ACE
Updates from CSOS
The CSOS Award in Student Scholarship
Application Now Available!
As promised, the Canadian Society of Occupational Scientists has created a new award for students presenting their occupational science work at conferences in Canada and abroad. Two awards worth up to $500 CDN each will be given out each year. Please see the application form for more details regarding this award and the application process.
This year's application form is due January 31, 2012 and covers conferences for the entire 2012 calendar year.
Click here to get the application form
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Announcement: 2012 Townsend & Polatajko Lectureship
The Canadian Society of Occupational Scientists is happy to announce that Dr. Debbie Rudman has been selected as the next recipient of the Townsend and Polatajko Lectureship.
We would like to congratulate Dr. Rudman on being awarded this Lectureship and all of her accomplishments. The Lectureship will be given at the 2012 CSOS Conference in Edmonton, Alberta. The conference will run from May 3rd to 5th and is being hosted by the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta.
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Call for Abstracts: 2012 CSOS Conference
Fostering Interdisciplinarity & Interprofessional Excellence in Occupation
May 3rd to 5th, Edmonton, Alberta
We encourage research or conceptual paper presentations, posters and panels that will contribute to dialogue and advancement of the interdisciplinary nature and interprofessional involvement in the study of occupation. We encourage all papers, posters and panels to focus on interdisciplinary approaches to explore occupation or to engage delegates in a discussion of how interdisciplinary knowledge might advance occupational outcomes or opportunities for participation in occupations that people want to do, need to do or are expected to do in society.
Theme 1. Papers are encouraged that contribute to advancing theory and methods used to study constructs in occupation and research studies on occupational outcomes such as health, wellbeing, engagement in meaningful or new occupations, or resumption of desired occupations through interdisciplinary approaches.
Theme 2. Research studies or conceptual papers or methodologies that enhance knowledge of occupational participation or occupational transitions for populations of vulnerable persons (such as older persons, immigrants, migrant workers, undocumented workers, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal youth, persons living in poverty, persons with mental health concerns, street workers and homeless persons, etc) through system, social or policy change.
Theme 3. Research or conceptual knowledge or methodologies that might enhance career transitions or socialization or change toward more interprofessional engagement and enactment of work occupations in the health care sector, the social services sector, the public or government and / or the educational sector.
The Call for Abstracts is Now Closed
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2011 CSOS AGM
The 2011 CSOS AGM Teleconference was held on Monday March 21st.
Please click here for the minutes from this meeting.
Please click here to see our revised Mission & Vision
The Board would like to welcome Jan Polgar and Ben Mortenson to the Board who were acclaimed as members-at-large. The Board would also like to thank Melinda Suto and Denise Reid for the contributions they made to the CSOS during their terms, which ended at the 2011 AGM.
Also from this web page:
What is Occupational Science?
Occupational science is the study of human occupations. It is a basic science dedicated to the understanding of human occupation, using both qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry.
