Jane A. DavisLecturer

Jane A. DavisLecturer

Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy (416) 946-7130 ja.davis@utoronto.ca
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Jane received a BSc (Psych) from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and her BScOT and MSc from The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. She is a registered occupational therapist in Ontario and with the NBCOT (U.S.A.). Jane has worked as an occupational therapist with individuals of all ages with diverse occupational performance and engagement issues, within various settings, including inpatient general medicine, rehab, skilled nursing, mental health and addictions; outpatient paediatrics, and adult orthopaedics and neurology; and homecare - adult neurology and orthopaedics.

Jane's current research is focused on examining the causal mechanisms that have lead to the production and re-production of the current work-life balance discourse. She has presented her work at various conferences, including CAOT, CSOS, OSOT, AOTA, and WFOT, and published in occupation-based journals. Jane is a co-author of numerous book chapters, including five in Enabling Occupation II, three on occupational development, and one on methods of inquiry. Jane is also an associate editor of the upcoming text, Lifestyle balance: Multidisciplinary research and theories, along with Kathleen Matuska and Charles Christiansen (editors) and Helene Polatajko (associate editor).
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As a board member of the Canadian Society of Occupational Scientists (CSOS), Jane has been a co-editor, since 2003, of a column, on behalf of CSOS, entitled 'Sense of Doing' in OT Now.