Dr Daniel Cezar Da Cruz

Daniel Cruz is currently a Senior Lecturer on the MSc (Pre-Registration) and BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy Programmes. He has experience within Neurological Rehabilitation in hospitals and rehabilitation centres, including stroke, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries and other neurological conditions.

Daniel was born in Brazil, where he graduated in occupational therapy in 2003. He has developed an interest in Models of Practice in Occupational Therapy and how the knowledge from Occupational Science can inform Occupational Therapy Practice. His doctorate research focused on associations among occupational roles, independence and assistive technology for people with physical disabilities living in their communities.

During his twelve years as a lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), Daniel both taught in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes and supervised several Masters and Doctorate students. He focused on: the impact of caregiver’s occupation in health and wellbeing; time use in occupations and job satisfaction among working women; associations between smartphone use and occupations among undergraduate students; functional mobility and satisfaction among people with disabilities; Modified Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy and Occupational Performance after a Stroke; Occupational Participation, Independence and Cognition in Adults with Physical Disabilities.

Daniel has published more than 122 publications, including 91 articles and editorials in national and international peer-review journals. He has edited three books, and is author of another twenty eight book chapters. In 2019, he received an international award recognising the quantity, quality, and timeliness of his peer review from the journal Annals of International Occupational Therapy. In 2020, Daniel was awarded a certificate of appreciation by the American Journal of Occupational Therapy for his peer reviewer role. In 2022, Daniel received the certificate of  Outstanding Reviewer Award by the American Journal of Occupational Therapy and contributed as a member of the Peer Review Group for stroke to the development of World Health Organizations’s (WHO) Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (PIR).

Since moving to the UK in December 2017, Daniel has been a Visiting Professor at Wrexham Glyndwr University, delivering a number of student workshops and working in research around International Collaboration. He has also devised numerous online workshops, lectures and seminars about Occupational Engagement as the ultimate goal for the profession in the UK, USA and Brazil.

• Occupational Therapy as a Complex Intervention - OTCI
• Occupational Therapists as Leaders - OTL (Module Leader)
• Research Methods and Design - RMD (Module Leader)
• Achieving Occupational Potential
• Promoting Occupational Justice
• Applied Research (Module Leader)