Staff profile

Ms Sarah Barradell

Lecturer, 3rd Year Co-ordinator

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Allied Health
Department of Physiotherapy

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) , Masters in Science, Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, APA Titled Physiotherapist (Neurology)

Membership of professional Associations

APA (Special Interest Groups - Neurology and Educator), HERDSA

Area of study

Physiotherapy

Brief Profile

Sarah Barradell joined La Trobe University in 2008, after many years of clinical experience. Her interest in helping students to learn how to think and practise as learner physiotherapists has led to her current doctorate studies on threshold concepts and ways of thinking and practising.

Sarah was awarded a Faculty of Health Sciences and La Trobe University Teaching Citation in 2012:  For the development of physiotherapy curricula and resources that facilitate disciplinary ways of thinking and practising.

Teaching Units

PTY4NEP Physiotherapy for people with neurological dysfunction

PTY5MCP Managing complexity in clinical practice

Recent Publications

 

Barradell, S. (2012). The identification of threshold concepts: a review of theoretical complexities and methodological challenges. Higher Education [online first 6 June]: DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9542-3. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-012-9542-3

Barradell, S., Down, S., Spencer, D., & Peseta, T.  (2012) Negotiating new research identities through the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. HERDSA News, April. http://www.herdsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/HERDSA-News-Volume-34-No-1-April-2012-final.pdf

Research projects

PhD candidate (part -time): Threshold concepts in physiotherapy