Tanya Packer and Joan Versnel (front, L-R) with the LINC study team.
The LINC Study was profiled in a recent issue of Brainwaves – the Brain Repair Centre (BRC) publication. Click here to read more.
LINC Study profiled by BRC
The LINC Study
The LINC Project Team - First Row (L-R) - Beth McDougall, Chanh Stevens, Joan Versnel, Grace Warner, Leslie Penner, Kerstin Roger. Second Row - Michelle Villeneuve, Susan Hutchinson, Jocelyn Brown, Lori Weeks. Third Row (L-R) - Diane MacKenzie, Sharmila Vas, George Kephart, Robin Stadnyk. Missing from photo - Tanya Packer, Marshall Godwin.
Congratulations to Tanya Packer and Joan Versnel, co-principal investigators from the School of Occupational Therapy who were awarded $813,424 over three years from the Public Health Agency of Canada for their research project “The Everyday Experience of Living with and Managing a Neurological Condition (The LINC Study).”
This research project seeks to understand the everyday lives of people with neurological conditions who strive to go to work, go to school, raise families and participate in their communities. The support and resources that make everyday life possible and meaningful for people with a neurological condition will be explored. It is anticpated that the findings of this research project will inform service and policy development for people with neurological conditions across Canada.
Co-investigators and research associcates for this project (all from Dalhousie, unless otherwise indicated) include:
- Susan Hutchinson (School of Health and Human Performance)
- Robin Stadnyk (Occupational Therapy)
- Grace Warner (Occupational Therapy)
- Diane MacKenzie (Occupational Therapy)
- Jocelyn Brown (Occupational Therapy)
- George Kephart (Community Health and Epidemiology)
- Lori Weeks (UPEI)
- Marshall Godwin (Memorial)
- Michelle Villeneuve (Queen’s University)
- Kerstin Roger (University of Manitoba)