Sarah Seekamp is a lecturer in the occupational therapy program and has experience in a range of practice areas including health promotion, management, aged care, chronic disease, disability and children and family services. Sarah has spent a significant portion of her career working rurally, both in South Australia and Victoria. She is a strong advocate for service models that reflect comprehensive primary health care, having a focus on prevention and health promotion as well as responding to ill health.
Sarah’s research interests include rural health, particularly the relationship between physical activity and mental health promotion and population health approaches to improving child health and wellbeing outcomes.
About me
Sarah Seekamp is a lecturer in the occupational therapy program and has experience in a range of practice areas including health promotion, management, aged care, chronic disease, disability and children and family services. Sarah has spent a significant portion of her career working rurally, both in South Australia and Victoria. She is a strong advocate for service models that reflect comprehensive primary health care, having a focus on prevention and health promotion as well as responding to ill health.
Sarah’s research interests include rural health, particularly the relationship between physical activity and mental health promotion and population health approaches to improving child health and wellbeing outcomes.
About me
Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) University of South Australia
Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) University of South Australia
Bachelor of Education (In Progress) Charles Darwin University
Diploma of Business Proteus Leadership Centre
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Co-designing a wellbeing intervention with rural young people, SA Dept of Human Services, 25/07/2024 - 01/07/2025
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Open access
1
2
|
| 2022 |
Open access
|
| 2022 |
2
2
9
|
| 2016 |
4
3
1
|
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Enhancing Multi-Disciplinary Responses - Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation SymposiumArney Chong Consulting |
2024 |
Webinar: Parent-Child Play: A mental health promotion strategy for all childrenEmerging Minds |
2019 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Evaluation of building blocks group using the Parenting Interactions with Children Checklist of Observation Linked to Outcome (PICCOLO). | Current |
| Supporting foster carers in using play as a therapeutic tool | Current |
