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Dr. Amanda Timmer

Senior Lecturer, Occupational Therapy

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Churchill Campus

Biography

Dr Amanda Timmer is a senior lecturer in occupational therapy. She is a registered occupational therapist with over 30 years’ experience working in adult rehabilitation in private and public hospital settings. Amanda draws on this extensive clinical experience to inform her undergraduate teaching, ensuring it is relevant and grounded in real‑world practice. 

Amanda’s research focuses on outcome measurement and evidence informed rehabilitation, with a special interest in hospital associated deconditioning and community mobility. Amanda is passionate about research with direct clinical applications. She is strongly committed to supporting clinicians to interpret and apply evidence within their practice. 

Amanda has published her work in a range of peer reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences. 

Fields of research

  • Occupational therapy
  • People with disability
  • Rehabilitation

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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy), La Trobe University 
  • Master of Occupational Therapy, University of South Australia 
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Central Queensland University 
  • Graduate Certificate of Education, Federation University 

Areas of interest

  • Occupational therapy 
  • People with disability 
  • Community mobility 
  • Rehabilitation 
  • Outcome measurement

Grants

  • Schache, M., Timmer, A. and Unsworth, C. 2018 ‘Measuring change during rehabilitation’, Ramsay Research Foundation. ($62,000) 

Awards

  • 2019: Central Queensland University Thesis Excellence Award-Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis 

Current

  • PhD student, Federation University, ‘Measuring rehabilitation outcomes’, supervisor. 
  • PhD student, Federation University, ‘Community mobility and mental health’, co supervisor.
  • PhD student, Federation University, ‘Clinical reasoning in cognitive rehabilitation’, co-supervisor.

Past

  • PhD student, Federation University, ‘Improving inclusion on the bus: The Better Transport Inclusivity for all Passengers (Better Trip) Project’, co-supervisor.

  • Introduction to research methodology for undergraduate allied health students (occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech pathology) 
  • Evidence informed practice in allied health 
  • Higher degree research supervision 

Specialist roles

  • Occupational Therapy Program Accreditation Assessor with Occupational Therapy Council of Australia  

Professional association memberships

  • AHPRA registered 
  • Occupational Therapy Australia 

Collaborative Evaluation and Research Centre (CERC)

Amanda is part of the Collaborative Evaluation and Research Centre (CERC), which provides training, workshops and mentoring to build capacity and enable organisations to conduct meaningful evaluations.
  • Publications

'By us, for us'; Co-designing disability inclusion training for bus drivers