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T Collins

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Name:

T Collins

Email:

T.Collins@salford.ac.uk

Department:

School of Health, Sport & Rehab

Organisation:

University of Salford

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Biography

Expertise:

Social gerontology, Widowhood, Family relationships and practices, Friendships, Personal communities, Qualitative research

Job title:

Lecturer

Biography:

Tracy graduated with a BSc in Occupational Therapy from Leicester University in 1996. She has an MA in Sociology from The University of Memphis, which she studied part time while working as an Occupational Therapist in the USA. After returning to the UK, she continued to study part time at Keele University while working as an Occupational Therapist in the NHS, she completed her PhD in 2011. In 2006 she took an academic post at the University of Salford. She currently teaches on the Occupational Therapy undergraduate programmes in the College of Health and Social Care. In addition to her undergraduate teaching, she has developed and teaches an online postgraduate research methods module using a virtual learning environment, she also supervises postgraduate research projects. Tracmore...

Qualifications:

2011 PhD Sociology (from University of Keele) 2002 MA Sociology (from University of Memphis) 1996 BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy (from University of Leicester)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1.	Managing transition : a longitudinal study of personal communities in later life widowhood	822	929
2.	Managing widowhood in later life : the challenges encountered	724	7
3.	Approaches to celebrating Christmas in widowhood	611	132
4.	Developing and evaluating Christmas events for people with dementia	378	284
5.	'It pushed me back into the human race' : evaluative findings from a community Christmas event	362	292
6.	An occupational perspective of the lived experience of familial dementia caregivers : a thematic review of qualitative literature	358	1658
7.	Men as caregivers : implications for occupational therapy	354	167
8.	Conducting longitudinal research with older women : the benefits and challenges	331	142
9.	Remembering the past, looking to the future : Christmas as a symbol of change in later life widowhood	301	469
10.	Later life widowhood and loneliness	289	578

My Latest

Davys, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-0972 and Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2020, 'Supportive strategies for men who perform a care role : an occupational perspective' , International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 27 (5) , pp. 1-10.
Hooper, E and Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2016, 'An occupational perspective of the lived experience of familial dementia caregivers : a thematic review of qualitative literature' , Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 18 (1) , pp. 323-346.
Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2016, 'Conducting longitudinal research with older widows : Exploring personal communities through multiple methods' , Journal of Women & Aging, 30 (3) .
Davys, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-0972 and Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2016, Men as caregivers : implications for occupational therapy , in: College of Occupational Therapists 40th Annual Conference, 28 June 2016, Harrrogate International Centre.
Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241, Kenney, CE and Hesk, GCO ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1411-7843 2016, ''It pushed me back into the human race' : evaluative findings from a community Christmas event' , Health and Social Care in the Community, 25 (5) , pp. 1601-1606.
Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2015, Developing and evaluating Christmas events for people with dementia , in: Human rights and dementia conference, 10-11th September 2015, University of Salford, MediaCity UK campus.
Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2015, 'The personal communities of older widows : social relations, personal agency and flexibility in later life' , in: Social Relationships and Friendships : Perceptions, Influences on Human Development and Psychological Effects , Psychology Research Progress , Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 77-121.
Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2014, The personal communities of older widowed men , in: The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress 2015, 23rd-26th April, Dublin.
Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2014, 'Remembering the past, looking to the future : Christmas as a symbol of change in later life widowhood' , Ageing and Society, 34 (9) , pp. 1525-1549.
Collins, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-6241 2014, 'Managing widowhood in later life : the challenges encountered' , International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 21 (2) , pp. 69-76.