Rate My Professor Emma Crawford

Crawford's research promotes wellbeing for infants, children, families, and communities via cross-cultural collaborations with community organizations to foster social change, mitigate disadvantage, and cultivate health-enhancing early life environments and activities, in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3. Core areas encompass partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled entities like the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health; responsive infant care and Neuroprotective Developmental Care addressing unsettled behaviour, maternal mental health, breastfeeding, sleep, and mother-infant co-occupations; human rights integration in occupational therapy practice and education; and occupational experiences of asylum seekers and refugees, particularly in perinatal periods. She has authored or co-authored over 60 publications, including 'New perspectives on responsive infant care: a qualitative study of the ways in which Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC) shapes mother-infant co-occupations' (Journal of Occupational Science, 2024), 'Occupational multi-level responsiveness: describing the skills used by occupational therapists working with children seeking asylum in Australia' (Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2022), 'An evaluation of Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC/Possums Programs) in the first 12 months of life' (Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2021), and the book chapter 'Fundamentals of occupational therapy: understanding the environment' (2021). Crawford teaches culturally responsive occupational therapy, co-developed a human rights course for students, supervises postgraduate research, and convenes the Queensland Occupational Justice Special Interest Group. As part of a team, she received a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the 2020 Australian Awards for University Teaching.