Dr. Yvonne Codd

Biography

Yvonne is an Assistant Professor in Occupational Therapy in the School of Allied Health. She holds a PhD., MSc. and BSc Cur Occ (Hons) awarded by Trinity College Dublin. Yvonne is interested in the impact of lifelong conditions on occupational identity and occupational adaptation. She is particularly interested in understanding and supporting participation and engagement in life roles such as employment and parenting across a range of conditions through occupation-focused interventions. Her Orcid ID is https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2824-2880

Yvonne has extensive experience in clinical rheumatology, chronic conditions, vocational rehabilitation, service design and clinical research. Yvonne currently works part time as the Lead Therapist in the Workplace Health and Wellbeing Unit of the HSE. This role involves developing and implementing work rehabilitation therapy pathways for employees with an injury, illness, on long-term seek leave, or requiring redeployment to support work ability and work retention. In her clinical career to date, Yvonne has worked in outpatient and inpatient rheumatology services working with adults, young adults and children. She has also worked in primary care adult settings, in paediatric primary care (6-18 years) with children with a broad range of developmental difficulties, and in school support teams (6-18 years) and children with intellectual disability.

In her academic career to date Yvonne has taught occupational therapy students at undergraduate level in Trinity College Dublin, and nursing and allied health professionals at postgraduate level in University College Dublin and University of Ulster. She has previously worked as a Research Fellow in the Discipline of Occupational Therapy, Trinity College Dublin. This postdoctoral researcher role was on the REfLECTS Study, a CHITIN funded randomised control trial of mirror box therapy in upper limb rehabilitation with sub-acute stroke patients.

Yvonne represents Occupational Therapy as the Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead on the National Clinical Programme for Rheumatology. Yvonne is Project Lead on 'Work-Able Solutions' which is an integrated care occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation service project. 'Work-Able Solutions' secured funding from the Sláintecare Integration Innovation Fund for an initial 24-month pilot.