Julie Collis

Julie is an occupational therapist and a NZ registered hand therapist. She has worked in various settings in the UK and New Zealand including hand therapy, inpatient rehabilitation, rheumatology, and pain management. She is a member of Hand Therapy New Zealand and practiced in a large teaching hospital in the hand therapy outpatient clinic working alongside specialist hand surgeons and clinicians. She held an academic role at the Auckland University of Technology as a lecturer on the postgraduate hand and upper limb course. Julie is an Occupational Therapy teaching and research academic at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research interests include the management of hand and wrist injuries with a particular focus on occupation-based approaches, evaluation of rehabilitation strategies, and equitable health outcomes for Indigenous peoples. Julie is an accredited Doctoral and Masters Principal Supervisor at Swinburne University of Technology.