Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Rebecca Haythorne
Senior Lecturer
Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer and Practice Placement Tutor on the MSc and BSc Occupational Therapy (pre-reg) programmes in the School of Health at Leeds Beckett University.
Rebecca completed her Occupational Therapy degree in 2016 and secured a rotational post at the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT). She completed rotations in the Trusts Care Homes Team and at The Yorkshire Centre for Eating Disorders before securing a permeant position within the Community Learning Disabilities Team. In 2018, she began a Clinical Academic Occupational Therapy post with LYPFT, working three days a week clinically and working towards her PhD 2 days a week through the University of York.
Rebecca has been working at Leeds Beckett University since August 2021. She teaches on the MSc Module Transitions into Practice and the BSc Modules: Occupations Across the Lifespan; Occupational Therapy as a Complex Intervention; Promoting Occupational Justice and Research Methods and Design.
Rebecca continues to pursue her PhD and has been granted a research passport by LYPFT to continue her primary research within the Trust. Her PhD research is focused on exploring participation in active recreation for adults with learning disabilities from different perspectives.
Since qualifying, Rebecca has had numerous articles and opinion pieces published on the role of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy interventions in peer review Journals. She has led on Audits and Service Evaluations at LYPFT and presented at a number of conferences including Royal college of Occupational Therapy Annual Conference. She recently had the first output from her PhD published in the British Journal of Learning Disabilities.
Rebecca has previously provided guest lecturers to Occupational Therapy student at Leeds Beckett University and has taught and designed teaching materials for undergraduate Nursing students at the University of York and undergraduate Medical students at the Hull and York Medical School. She was awarded her Associate Fellow of the HEA status by the Advanced Higher Education board in 2021.
Current Teaching
Rebecca teaches on the MSc Module Transitions into Practice and the BSc Modules: Occupations Across the Lifespan; Occupational Therapy as a Complex Intervention; Promoting Occupational Justice and Research Methods and Design.
Research Interests
Rebecca continues to pursue her PhD and has been granted a research passport by LYPFT to continue her primary research within the Trust. Her PhD research is focused on exploring participation in active recreation for adults with learning disabilities from different perspectives. She is a keen advocate for encouraging participation in research activity for individuals who have a learning disability.
Rebecca is working closely with LYPFT Learning Disability Involvement Team which includes lived experienced advisors to ensure that her research is accessible for people who have a learning disability. She will continue working with the team on completion of her primary research to develop an active recreation toolkit that can be used by learning disability services in the future to encourage and promote meaningful active recreation for mental and physical wellbeing. The toolkit will be developed by people who have a learning disability for people who have a learning disability.
