Nastaran Doroud

Nastaran is a Senior Lecturer and Mid-Career Researcher (MCR) with expertise in photovoice, participatory research and co-design methods. In her research, Nastaran has developed a conceptual understanding of recovery experiences as embedded in people’s everyday lives. This understanding is now being developed into an Occupational Therapy group program called ‘Picturing My Recovery (PMR)’ to promote recovery and wellbeing for people living with severe mental illness.

Nastaran is also interested in research with culturally diverse populations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and vulnerable communities (e.g. forensic mental health settings); multidisciplinary approaches to understand place; health promotion; Recovery College; and evaluation research.

Nastaran is also involved in international collaborations with Iran University of Medical Sciences in design and evaluation of mental health services, and cultural adaptations of standard measures.

Nastaran has an outstanding history of working as an Occupational Therapist at various health setting in Tehran, Iran; including co-leading a psychosocial rehabilitation centre within a University campus; co-establishing a psychology and allied health service at a public hospital; and supervising graduate Occupational Therapists.