Tania Wiseman

Dr Tania Wiseman

Associate Professor Occupational Therapy, Therapies

Welsh language proficiency

Basic Welsh Speaker
Office - 309
Third Floor
Vivian Building
Singleton Campus
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Dr Tania Wiseman has 23 years experience as an occupational therapy educator.  She is intensely engaged in the development of learning, asking questions that encourage enquiring minds. Always challenging, always with humour, she really cares about how understanding develops. She has a passion for assessments that teach rather than test, and is therefore extremely lucky to mainly teach on a course underpinned by evidence based learning theory, with high quality interactive small group tutorials at the core of teaching, working on real life problems together, and learning as part of a team.

She also uses blended learning approaches to support this ‘in the room’ time, both within tutorials, and in support of tutorials e.g. ‘You-Tube’ videos to facilitate discussion, sharing theoretical knowledge via subject expert sessions and recorded presentations and guiding reading with digital reading lists.  Digital learning resources have been developed to stimulate emotional engagement in learning, with a new simulation suite to add creativity.  She believes that compassion and love of learning are essential for a rewarding career, and aims to create space for these attributes to develop in the learners that she supports.

Areas Of Expertise

  • Leisure in later life
  • Critical perspectives on active ageing
  • Occupational therapy
  • Occupational therapy curricula
  • Narrative research
  • Nature based therapy

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Leisure in later life

Critical perspectives on active ageing

Occupational therapy

Occupational therapy professionalism

Narrative research

Nature based therapy

Research