Dr Nastaran Doroud

Biography

Nastaran is a Senior Lecturer and Early Career Researcher (ECR) with expertise in qualitative research methods, participatory research, co-deign & co-production, photovoice and photo-elicitation methods, grounded theory design, evaluation projects and qualitative meta-synthesis; as well as education research, curriculum design and innovation in higher education.

In her research, Nastaran is passionate about enabling participation and recovery for people with serious mental illness. Her main research interests focus around exploring recovery for people with serious mental illness in different settings (including forensic and secure mental health settings), design and evaluation of recovery-oriented approaches in occupational therapy, co-design and co-production, Recovery Colleges, e-mental health, sense of place, and understanding recovery for culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

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 children and youth counselling and allied health centre in a public hospital; and supervising new graduates and occupational therapy students in their placements.

Nastaran is currently working on a project with Forensicare in co-design and evaluation of an occupational therapy program, co-authoring a book chapter in the Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing, and leading the mental health curricula at Swinburne Occupational Therapy program and supervising PhD students.