I love learning. Sharing what I’ve learned with others who are interested and curious is so important, and presentations are a great opportunity to connect. This research is wonderfully enjoyable for me, sitting at my computer and chatting with people, but it’s so important to share it in a public forum so that it can be discussed with actual people! I always welcome any conversation – whether it’s affirming, encouraging, validating, challenging, or constructive. If you see I’m presenting somewhere and would like to chat in person, please come and find me.
Upcoming presentations 2025:
2025 | Thursday, 26 June – 11:10-11:25am | Expanding the Kawa Model: Storytelling and Reflection for Neurodivergent Women during Motherhood. OTA 31st National Conference, Adelaide, Australia. www.otausevents.com.au/otaus2025/program25
2025 | Thursday, 26 June – 12:10-12.25pm | Hausler, S., & Slootjes, H., Navigating menopause transitions: Holistic occupational therapy approaches to enhance women’s wellbeing. OTA 31st National Conference, Adelaide, Australia. www.otausevents.com.au/otaus2025/program25
2025 | Poster presentation | Borkovic, S., & Slootjes, H., Enhancing Women’s Health through Occupational Therapy Leadership & a Feminist Lens, OTA 31st National Conference, Adelaide, SA, Australia. www.otausevents.com.au/otaus2025/program25
More coming…!
Past presentations:
2024 | Writing a textbook: Translating Research for Practical Application [Online seminar]. Judith Lumley Centre, Australia.
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 4pm-4:10pm: Oral presentation [10 mins] – Functional Co-occupation Spectrum: A conceptual practice model for working with mother-infant dyads, at OT Australia 30th National Conference and Exhibition, Cairns Convention Centre, QLD, Australia.
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 4:35pm: ePoster Spotlight presentation [4 mins] – Introducing the Person-centred Occupational Model of Matrescence (POMM) for perinatal and motherhood transitions, at OT Australia 30th National Conference and Exhibition, Cairns Convention Centre, QLD, Australia.
14 September 2022, 7pm-8pm (UK time; GMT+1): International perspective: Occupational therapy in perinatal health and matrescence. Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT), UK. Series: Specialist Section – Mental Health Bi-monthly Perinatal networking event – Perinatal/Maternal health: An international perspective and the role of Occupational Therapy.
19 September, 8pm-9pm (EST) / 20 September 2022, 10am-11am (AEST): Journal Club: Conversation with Dr Hannah Slootjes about the Person-centred Occupational Model of Matrescence (POMM). Hosted by Maternal Health OT, New York, USA.
02 March 2022: Online lunchtime seminar [1 hour] – The emerging role of occupational therapy in perinatal health, and introducing the Person-centred Occupational Model of Matrescence (POMM), a Judith Lumley Centre lunchtime seminar. This online presentation was recorded, and can be viewed here.
11 July 2019: Oral presentation [15 mins] – Occupational therapy in maternal health: Case study, at OT Australia 28th National Conference and Exhibition, International Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia.
3 December 2018: Poster – Occupational therapy in perinatal health: Case study preliminary findings, La Trobe Graduate Research Festival, LRHS, Flora Hill, Australia.
29 June 2018: Oral presentation [20 mins] – Occupational therapy in material health: A case study, at OT Australia VIC-Tas Regional Conference, Crown Promenade, Melbourne, Australia.
24 May 2018: Poster presentation – Occupational therapy in maternal health: A case study, at WFOT Congress 2018 – Cape Town, South Africa, 21-25 May.
19-21 July 2017: ePoster: Occupational therapy in perinatal health: Case study preliminary findings, OT Australia 27th National Conference, Perth, Australia.
1 December 2016: Oral presentation [20 mins] – Occupational therapy in maternal health: Case study, at Graduate Research Festival, Latrobe University, CTB, Bendigo, Australia.
3 September 2016: Oral presentation [20 mins]: Occupational therapy in maternal health: case study series, at OT Australia VIC-TAS Regional Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
3 August 2016: Oral presentation – Motherhood transitions are not sequences of illness: New mothers need occupational therapists throughout perinatal transitions, at 3MT, Latrobe University, LRHS, Flora Hill, Australia.
28 July 2016: Oral presentation – Pregnancy, birth & motherhood are not sequences of illness: New mothers need occupational therapists throughout perinatal transitions, at Head2Head, Ulumbarra, Bendigo, Australia | Related interview, “Ideas that care for women”, in Bendigo Advertiser (July 2016).
19 June 2016: Oral presentation [20 min] – Occupational therapy in maternal health: A critical review, at COTEC-ENOTHE 2016, Galway, Ireland.
27 November 2015: Oral presentation [15 mins] – Occupational therapy in maternal health: A critical review, at Graduate Research Festival, Latrobe University, LRHS, Flora Hill, Australia.
26 June 2015: Oral presentation – Maternal health transitions are not sequences of illness: Women need occupational therapists throughout perinatal transitions, at 3MT, Latrobe University, LRHS, Flora Hill, Australia.
11 July 2014: Oral presentation – New mothers need occupational therapists throughout perinatal transitions, at 3MT, Latrobe University, LRHS, Flora Hill, Australia.
Research & evidence-based practice for OTs in perinatal health, motherhood, and matrescence 