Jacki Liddle

Jacaranda trees against a blue sky

A carpet of fallen jacaranda blooms with a water dragon

Grey skies in an early morning. A purple blooming jacaranda tree is next to a lake

Very purple (means it’s exam time) in Brisbane these days #jacaranda #brisbane

An early morning with grey skies and silhouetted trees over a lake. Pelicans are on the lake

Sunset over the same lake. A gentle gradient in the sky from golden to purple and blue is reflected in the lake

We have heat and humidity (again/still) in #Brisbane - this was yesterday

Close image of a vivid yellow ranunculus flower

Spray of orchid buds with one small purple and white flower

A colourful painted tin jug filled with native flowers and foliage

Poppies of various colours

floral moments of Spring this week #flowers #Spring

A turtle on a rock on a lake with 2 baby turtles in front

A zoomed out view of a lake with a fountain with the basking turtles in the foreground

Warm enough to bring the turtles (and babies) out to bask

A beautiful outlook over a lake with a clear sky reflected in a still lake. A branch overarches in the foreground

A closer look at the branch shows a few purple jacaranda blooms

Not to stress Brisbane people out- but in these beautiful Spring mornings- the jacarandas are just starting to appear #Brisbane #UQ #jacaranda #ExamsAreComing

Congrats Dr Julie!

Two tawny frogmouth (birds) spotted through blurred leaves and rain sitting in a tree. They look wet and annoyed - the smaller has a wet leaf stuck to its head

The tawnies are doing okay in the post cyclone rain and gusty winds- they really look quite over it! #TCAlfred #birds

An ibis standing in front of a lake against a vivid blue sky

Early morning light silhouetting a tree against a lake

A large tree in afternoon sun with a large flock of corellas around it

A decorative curved ceiling with decorative golden ceiling roses

Scenes from my week - it’s been humid and busy. Hope your week is going ok #UQ

A black and white dog with a fancy red and gold ruffled collar. It has a cartoon snake at the centre

A brown woolly dog with a red and white knitted collar. It has a fabric snake face on it

Happy Lunar New Year to those celebrating! The dogs have new looks especially #LunarNewYear

A beach under blue skies with some clouds. Groups of tourists are walking in from small boats

Another one #malaysia #holidayPics

Koi Fish in a pond - close together and forming interesting patterns

Would you like to see a picture from my recent trip to Malaysia as a break from all the news? I have a lot of pictures so it could be an ongoing strategy. ❤️

Frangipani flowers with rain droplets on flowers and leaves. They are mostly yellow with white outer edges

Happy 2025 - hope it brings you health, happiness and things you are needing ❤️

In a sauce pan- there are pandan leaves, pieces of ginger and dark palm sugar dissolving

Pastel colour balls made from glutinous rice flour sit on a plate

Cooked glutinous rice dumplings in more vivid colours sit in a water bath

Today we made Tang Yuan (dumplings served in sweet gingery pandan syrup) for Dongzhi - along with some other treats #Dongzhi #WinterSolstice #Dumplings

A long table with biscuit/cookie cutters, rolling pins and boards

Bowls of assorted sprinkles including Christmas colours and eyeballs

A long table with assorted shapes of biscuits with vibrant icing and colours

There is a lot to celebrate at this time of year- we had the 8 cousins (and parents/grandparents) - create these colourful biscuits (no rules, a lot of colour and the tables are still sticky!) #Christmas #baking

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My team's (open access) article was one of the AAA's Top Journal Articles of 2024, follow the links to download for free

"Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology"

www.anthropology-news.org/articles/top...

A messy array of chocolate truffles sitting on parchment. They are enrobed in various kinds of chocolate and topped with sprinkles or coconut. There are melted chocolate drips everywhere. A Christmas tree is visible in the background

Christmas baking at our place involves lots of love, lots of mess and lots of chocolate #Christmas #baking

Three trays of chocolate fudge: one is topped with crushed press, one with toasted shredded coconut and one with toasted slivered almonds

A tray of fudge topped with m&ms

A flowering grevillea tree with orange flowers. A bright green lorikeet (bird) with yellow scale like feathers is having an enthusiastic snack

I’m am officially on leave and festive baking is beginning- some fudge with my son for starters! #baking - with a short intermission to watch the scaly breasted lorikeet in the grevillea #BirdsOfAustralia

A wading bird posing with wings outstretched - looking reminiscent of graduation gowns

A black water bird walking confidently across a wooden raised pathway

Out on campus for graduations and the birdlife seems to be getting into the spirit #UQ

🚨New research!

Aged care clients (community + residential) and family members shared their design ideas and preferences for co-designing a new aged care digital dashboard of integrated client data, real-time predictive risk models and decision support.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"The pandemic has brought access to outdoor space into sharp focus, and as cities made adjustments ... the green inequity became painfully apparent.

Studies have shown that access to green spaces can help bridge income-related health inequalities"

#architecture #neuroscience

A very healthy potted plant with Xmas decorations on it

I do love the little bit of decorating going on in cafes 🎄

A section of Christmas tree with traditional ornaments and a large hairy spider toy

A branch of a Christmas tree with a vivid yellow and black frog toy sprawled on it near a light

A toy mantis on a Xmas tree branch near a bell

Well hidden on a Christmas tree branch- a black and red coiled snake toy

Bit of a Xmas decorating throwback- when the kids were little, they used to sneakily infest the trees with all kinds of creatures #Xmas #decoration

Thank you- it is a much needed area but we don’t want to “move fast and break things” - the potential harms are too great- and the potential benefits of doing things well are also huge and we don’t want to miss them.

Partnering with people living with dementia and care partners in technology research and design: Reflections and recommendations Introduction Occupational therapists may recommend and support technology use for facilitating independence, safety, wellbeing, and participation. There are high expectations for technology for peop...

This is a meta reflection we wrote as a team about ways of partnering in this kind of research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Dementia #Technology #Codesign #Participatory

Dementia: AI developed to help make life easier AI projects are underway to help ease the challenges of dementia.

It is always hard to keep projects going when funding has ended, and good codesign is careful and slow (but worth it!)

The team was invited to AI for Good in Geneva to talk about the codesign approach. And more recently some team members featured in this BBC piece: www.bbc.com/news/article...

One of the projects I am very proud to be involved with is the Florence Project at UQ: eecs.uq.edu.au/florence

We have been codesigning technologies to support communication and participation with people living with dementia and their care partners.

#dementia #AssistiveTechnology

Australians with disability are 4 times more likely to die early – often not due to their disability People with disability die of conditions such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes at a much higher rate than the rest of the population.

bit more on that lancet research showing how big the health inequalities are for disabled people

'What is inevitable is that Australians with disability will keep dying before their time unless we take action'

theconversation.com/australians-...

✨Calling all #neurodivergent occupational therapists, students, support workers, retired & non-practicing✨

Tell me if you'd like to be included in my starter pack of ND OTs

It's nice to know who's out there, for support & to make a great community

Pls spread around!

#OccupationalTherapy

Reposting this thread about PRPP as I know we are getting new arrivals every day. It’s a fantastic, ecologically valid tool for OTs to support their behavioural observation analysis, based on task analysis with both assessment and intervention arms. Take a look Oats…