Rate My Professor Kobie Boshoff

Dr Kobie Boshoff is a senior lecturer in Occupational Therapy in the School of Allied Health and Human Performance, College of Health, at Adelaide University. Her research interests include service delivery models, Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Sciences, Human Services, Human Development, Paediatrics and Early Intervention, services for people with disabilities, client views on service delivery, client participation in research and service delivery, community based approaches, management, staff development, program evaluation, systematic reviews, and evidence informed practice. She has methodological expertise in meta-syntheses, scoping reviews, qualitative and mixed methods research. Through her research and teaching, she advances an ecological view of human development, evidence-based practice, and consumer engagement to address social injustice and ensure equal engagement and opportunities for all.

Boshoff has a broad range of clinical experience in paediatrics and employment for people with disabilities, gained internationally and locally in private practice, community based, school based, case management settings, and management roles. She conducts research as part of the UniSA IIMPACT research concentration and the collegial research group, the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (iCAHE). She serves as Editor in Chief of The Allied Health Scholar, a UniSA journal. She teaches Occupational Therapy specific courses, including those with practical, skill-based, and placement components, and supervises honours, masters level, and PhD students. Key publications include 'Parents' voices: ‘why and how we advocate’. A meta-synthesis of parents' experiences of advocating for their child with autism spectrum disorder' (2016), 'Does gamification increase engagement with online programs? A systematic review' (2017), 'Parents' voices: "Our process of advocating for our child with autism." A meta-synthesis of parents' perspectives' (2018), 'A meta-synthesis of how parents of children with autism describe their experience of advocating for their children during the process of diagnosis' (2019), 'Child development outcomes of DIR/FloortimeTM-based programs: a systematic review' (2020), and 'Interprofessional education placements in allied health: a scoping review' (2020).