Valerie Wright-St Clair
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Valerie A. Wright-St Clair is a New Zealand registered occupational therapist,[1] occupational scientist and Professor of Social Gerontology and Occupational Science in the School of Health Sciences at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
Wright-St Clair's mother was a nurse and father a general practitioner. She completed her secondary education in Hamilton. She qualified as an occupational therapist in 1984, then practised in New Zealand hospitals and at Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland.[2]
Her career in academia began in October 1990 when she was appointed lecturer at Auckland University of Technology.[2] In 2008 she completed a doctoral thesis titled 'Being aged' in the Everyday: uncovering the meaning through elders' stories through the University of Auckland, supervised by Ngaire Kerse and Elizabeth Smythe.[3] In November 2018 Wright-St Clair was appointed full professor at AUT with effect from 1 January 2019.[4][5]
She is co-director of the AUT Centre for Active Ageing[1][6] and joint head of research in the Occupational Science and Therapy department at AUT.[7]
