User:Occupational Therapy History Matters

Aim to add biographies of people notable for their contribution to occupational therapy theory, practice, education, research or development; anywhere in the world.

January 2023 to January 2024
First task finding occupational therapists and adding to the Category 'Occupational therapists' to create a baseline for this work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_therapists

14 January 2023 Tagishsimon created a redlist with 44 occupational therapists in the index and more linked to the Women in Red project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Occupational_Therapists

Category: 4 January 2023 there were 28 entries in the Category 'Occupational Therapists', including an occupational psychologist (Nigel Guenole), a doctor (John Stoke), a place (Belclare) and four, founding patrons (Elizabeth Casson, a psychiatrist; Thomas B Kidner, an architect; Eleanor Clark Slagle, a social worker; and Susan E Tracey, a nurse). A year later, there are 57 entries / pages in this category.

Learning by creating entries and editing existing biographies

March: created first entry as part of excellent Wikipedia training. Dilanthi Amaratunga, a Sri Lankan quantity surveyor who leads research and international projects into disaster mitigation, reconstruction and resilience at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilanthi_Amaratunga

June: published a biography of Evelyn Mary Macdonald, a forgotten pioneer who helped establish occupational therapy in the United Kingdom, Argentina and Greece. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Mary_Macdonald September: expanded Susan Edith Tracy’s entry to respect an American registered nurse who developed invalid occupations and was a founder member of the Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy in 1917. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_E._Tracy

Official log: for Occupational Therapy History Matters account created on 3 January 2023 with 279 edits.