Dr Ian Edwards

Tutor School of Health Sciences

email Ian.Edwards@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Welcome to my home page. I work part time as a lecturer in the School of Health Sciences. My teaching areas and research interests are described below.

School of Health Sciences

Offering a broad range of programs in physiotherapy, occupational therapy,human movement, and other health sciences.

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Research

Research themes

Healthy futures

Research focus

Clinical Sciences
Human Movement and Sports Science
Other Medical and Health Sciences
Public Health and Health Services
Specialist Studies in Education

Highlights

My research interests include clinical reasoning, ethics and vulnerable populations and chronic pain. My research expertise is in a qualitative paradigm.

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2009	Remedios, L, Dawson, H & Edwards, IC 2009, 'Culture and Physiotherapy Practice', in Joy Higgs, Megan Smith, Gillian Webb, Margot Skinner & Anne Croker, Contexts of Physiotherapy Practice, Elsevier, NSW, Australia, pp. 128-138.
2008	Christensen, NK, Jones, MA, Edwards, IC & Higgs, J 2008, 'Helping Physiotherapy students develop clinical reasoning capability', in J Higgs, M Jones, S Loftus and N Christensen, Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, 3rd, Butterworth Heinemann, Elsevier, Amsterdam, ch. 36, pp. 389 - 396.
2008	Christensen, NK, Jones, MA, Higgs, J & Edwards, IC 2008, 'Dimensions of clinical reasoning capability', in Nicole Christensen, Mark A Jones, Joy Higgs and S Loftus, Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, 3rd, Butterworth Heinemann, Elsevier, Amsterdam, ch. 9, pp. 101 - 110.
2008	Edwards, IC & Delaney, C 2008, 'Ethical Reasoning', in Joy Higgs, Mark A. Jones, Stephen Loftus, Nicole Christensen, Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, 3rd, Elsevier, Oxford, ch. 25, pp. 279 - 289.
2008	Jones, MA & Edwards, IC 2008, 'Clinical reasoning to facilitate cognitive-experiential change', in J Higgs, M Jones, S loftus, N Christensen, Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, 3rd, Butterworth Heinemann, Elsevier, Amsterdam, ch. 29, pp. 319 - 328.
2008	Jones, MA, Jensen, G & Edwards, IC 2008, 'Clinical reasoning in physiotherapy', in J Higgs, M Jones, S loftus and N Christensen, Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, 3rd, Butteworth Heinemann, Elsevier, Amsterdam, ch. 22, pp. 245 - 256.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2019	Delany, C, Edwards, I & Fryer, C 2019, 'How physiotherapists perceive, interpret, and respond to the ethical dimensions of practice: a qualitative study', Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 663-676. Open access 3
2019	Man, I, Kumar, S, Jones, M & Edwards, I 2019, 'An exploration of psychosocial practice within private practice musculoskeletal physiotherapy: A cross-sectional survey', Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, vol. 43, pp. 58-63. 3
2019	Murray, CM, Edwards, I, Jones, M & Turpin, M 2019, 'Learning thresholds for early career occupational therapists: a grounded theory of learning-to-practise', British Journal of Occupational Therapy, online, pp. 1-14. Open access
2015	Murray, C, Turpin, M, Edwards, I & Jones, M 2015, 'A qualitative meta-synthesis about challenges experienced in occupational therapy practice', British Journal of Occupational Therapy, vol.78, no. 9, pp. 534-546. Open access 6 5
2014	Edwards, IC, Jones, MA, Thacker, M & Swisher, L 2014, 'The moral experience of the patient with chronic pain : bridging the gap between first and third person ethics', Pain Medicine, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 364-378. Open access 8 8 5
2014	Luker, JA, Bernhardt, J, Grimmer, KA & Edwards, I 2014, 'A qualitative exploration of discharge destination as an outcome or a driver of acute stroke care', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 14, paper no. 193, pp. 1-9. Open access 17 17 1
2014	Singla, M, Jones, M, Edwards, I & Kumar, S 2014, 'Physiotherapists' assessment of patients' psychosocial status: are we standing on thin ice? A qualitative descriptive study', Manual Therapy, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 328-334. 37 34 41
2013	Jones, M, Van Kessel, G, Swisher, L, Beckstead, J & Edwards, I 2013, 'Cognitive maps and the structure of observed learning outcome assessment of physiotherapy students' ethical reasoning knowledge', Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-20. 5 5 3
2012	Edwards, I, van Kessel, G, Jones, M, Bechstead, J & Swisher, LL 2012, 'The development of moral judgment and organization of ethical knowledge in final year physical therapy students', Physical Therapy Reviews, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 157-166. 11 1
2012	Swisher, LL, Van Kessel, G, Jones, M, Beckstead, J & Edwards, I 2012, 'Evaluating moral reasoning outcomes in physical therapy ethics education: stage, schema, phase, and type', Physical Therapy Reviews, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 167-175. 20
2012	Wickford, J, Edwards, I & Rosberg, S 2012, 'A transformative perspective on learning and professional development of Afghan physiotherapists', Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 269-282. 3
2011	Edwards, I, Delaney, CM, Townsend, AF & Swisher, Ll 2011, 'Moral agency as enacted justice: a clinical and ethical decision-making framework for responding to health inequities and social injustice', Physical Therapy, vol. 91, no. 11, pp. 1653-1663. Open access 29 25
2011	Edwards, I, Delany, CM, Townsend, AF & Swisher, LL 2011, 'New perspectives on the theory of justice: implications for physical therapy ethics and clinical practice', Physical Therapy, vol. 91, no. 11, pp. 1642-1652. Open access 14 15
2011	Edwards, I, Wickford, J, Aziz, AA & Thoren, J 2011, 'Living a moral professional life amidst uncertainty: ethics for an Afghan physical therapy curriculum', European Journal of Physiotherapy, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 26-33. 4
2011	Luker, JA, Wall, K, Bernhardt, J, Edwards, I & Grimmer-Somers, KA 2011, 'Patient's age as a determinant of care received following acute stroke: a systematic review', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 11, article no. 161, pp. 1-10. Open access 31 26
2010	Delany, C, Edwards, IC, Jensen, G & Skinner, E 2010, 'Closing the gap between ethics knowledge and practice through active engagement: an applied model of physical therapy ethics', Physical Therapy, vol. 90, no. 7, pp. 1068-1078. Open access 34 28
2010	Luker, JA, Wall, K, Bernhardt, J, Edwards, IC & Grimmer, KA 2010, 'Measuring the quality of dysphagia management practices following stroke: a systematic review', International Journal of Stroke, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 466-476. 14 13
2008	Edwards, IC & Richardson, B 2008, 'Clinical reasoning and population health : decision making for an emerging paradigm of health care', Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 183-193. Open access 31

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Creighton University	UNITED STATES
Flinders Medical Centre	AUSTRALIA
Florey Neuroscience Institute	AUSTRALIA
International Assistance Mission	AUSTRALIA
King's College London	UNITED KINGDOM
La Trobe University	AUSTRALIA
Physical Therapy Institute	AFGHANISTAN
Private Individual	AUSTRALIA
University of British Columbia	CANADA
University of East Anglia	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Gothenburg	SWEDEN
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of South Florida	UNITED STATES
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

My teaching interests include ethics, clinical reasoning, musculoskeletal physiotherapy, sociology of health and qualitative research.

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Responses to troublesome aspects of knowledge and practice: a grounded theory of learning-to-practice occupational therapy	Completed
The influence of acute stroke patients' age on the quality of care received from allied health professionals	Completed

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