Kirsty joined the Department of Occupational Therapy as a lecturer in September 2014.  She gained her BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy degree from Oxford Brookes University, UK in 1994 and completed a Masters degree from the University of Manchester in 2001.  Kirsty has worked as an occupational therapist for several years within adult mental health both in a forensic mental health a community mental health care setting before joining the University of Salford in 2002 as a lecturer on the BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy and MSc Advanced Occupational Therapy programmes.  Kirsty currently teaches on the MOTPrac program and her role includes coordinating the participatory community project placements.