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Recognition for OT lecturer

20 February 2008

Sylvia Docker Award: Rebecca Allen, Senior Lecturer, Department of Occupational Therapy, Peninsula campus.

Department of occupational therapy senior lecturer Rebecca Allen has received the Sylvia Docker award. The award is the highest recognition given to occupational therapists in Australia to honour those who have outstanding contributions to occupational therapy.

Ms Allen is based at the Peninsula campus.

Colleague Pamela Kirke said the whole occupational therapy department is delighted for Rebecca and proud of the department's achievements.

"Given only five awards are made across Australia in each decade we can be proud of the fact that we now have two recipients of the Sylvia Docker award in the department at Monash University." Ms Kirke said.

Associate Professor Louise Farnworth was awarded the Sylvia Docker lectureship in 2003.

One award is made every two years in association with the profession's biannual national occupational therapy Conference. This year the Australian Occupational therapy conference will be held in Melbourne.

The Sylvia Docker lecture was established by the Australian occupational therapy profession in 1964 to honour Sylvia Docker who established the first training school for Occupational Therapists in Sydney in 1941. The first Sylvia Docker lecture was delivered in 1966.