Fellows

Debbie qualified as an Occupational Therapist in the Netherlands in 1989 and has worked as a practitioner, educator and researcher in England, Pakistan and the Netherlands. Debbie first attended an ENOTHE Annual Meeting in York 2013, while working as a lecturer in OT at Brunel University London. Since taking on the role of Director Education of the European MSc in Occupational Therapy (OT EuroMaster) in 2015, ENOTHE became even more significant, due to the close collaboration between ENOTHE and the OT EuroMaster since their beginnings in the 1990s, with staff and students in active board and committee roles for ENOTHE and the annual meetings a great opportunity for networking and recruiting new students. Likewise, Debbie encouraged the teaching team of the new BSc programme at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences to actively engage with ENOTHE from its beginnings in 2021, to understand the European context in which we educate our students, as well as to share our innovative approaches to teaching and assessment. Debbie’s work has focused on the participation of children and adults in their communities, schools and workplaces, taking a rights-based, occupational justice approach that goes hand in hand with pragmatic and evidence-based interventions. Collaborating with others in community development and participatory research characterizes her approach throughout. ENOTHE has been instrumental in building the School-Based Occupational Therapy International Network (SBOT-IN) of which Debbie is a cofounder, and which collaboratively developed the SBOT Curriculum website through an ENOTHE Project School Based Occupational Therapy. You can read Debbie’s publications on ResearchGate here Debbie Kramer-Roy. Debbie would like to acknowledge the many colleagues who have encouraged and enriched the internationalization activities throughout her career, in particular Claudia Gali, her co-director of the OT-EuroMaster and the staff team across the five partner-institutions, i.e. University of Brighton, Amsterdam UAS, Zürich UAS (ZHAW), University of A Coruña and Karolinska Institutet.

Liliya Todorova is an Associate Professor at the University of Ruse, Bulgaria. She holds a Master’s degree in Biology, however since 2003 her professional career has been fully dedicated to the development of Occupational Therapy as a new academic discipline and profession in Bulgaria. She received her training in Occupational Therapy through the Joint Action Programme “Facilitation and Participation of Young Persons with Disabilities in an Enlarged Europe”, coordinated by ENOTHE. As a result of her pioneering efforts, in 2006 the University of Ruse launched the first Bachelor’s degree programme in Occupational Therapy in Bulgaria — still the only one in the country. Deeply inspired by the values and impact of the profession, she continues to embrace the challenges of establishing and advancing Occupational Therapy in Bulgaria. Since 1992, Liliya has been actively involved in the development of the Health Care field at the University of Ruse, contributing to the establishment of degree programmes in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work. She has served as both Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Public Health and Health Care. From 2004 to 2010, she was a Board Member of ENOTHE and played an active role in the TUNING project for the development and validation of subject-specific competences in Occupational Therapy (2003–2008), as well as in the TUNING-CALOHEE follow-up project (2022–2024). She has participated in numerous international projects, educational modules, and mobility programmes for both teachers and students. In 2023, she contributed as an educational consultant to the project “UKRAINE War Trauma Rehabilitation” supported by the Swiss Confederation. Her PhD research focused on the validation of the Bulgarian translation of the Child Occupational Self Assessment (COSA), and between 2012 and 2014 she was part of an international working group for the revision of COSA. Liliya Todorova is the co-founder of the Association of Bulgarian Ergotherapists, serving as its President from 2010 to 2017 and again since 2021. She currently represents Bulgaria as a delegate to WFOT and COTEC, and is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Board of the European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy.

Linda graduated in occupational therapy in 1981 and worked in mental health and learning disability. She has been a lecturer and senior lecturer on Bachelor and Masters occupational therapy programmes at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh since 1989 and was the Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy. She was also the Programme Leader for the MSc Occupational Therapy (Post Reg.) programme. She is presently a Senior Lecturer with specific interest in curriculum design, programme validation, international work and teaching and learning. She led on ERASMUS mobility projects for occupational therapy staff and students. Her Professional Doctorate was on the subject of The Transition to Retirement. Currently she is working in partnership with a Greek educational institution, as the Collaborations Academic Lead, to jointly run a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy programme. She was recently the Project Lead for a Scottish, South African mobility project. She has been a past UK WFOT 1st Alternate, Secretary to the Board of ENOTHE and she received a Merit Award from the British Association of Occupational Therapists. She has been on the Advisory Board for the Euro Master’s in Occupational Therapy and was on the ENOTHE Board for six years, during which time she was involved in strategic and operational planning for the network, operationalising European funded projects. This included the initial Tuning Project and also facilitating emerging “new accession” European countries to establish occupational therapy and to initiate occupational therapy education at university level.