Dr Judith Hocking
Research Assistant (Brain Injury Rehabilitation)
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Judith has a keen interest in supporting client-centred goal-setting and attainment and client motivation. These key precepts undergirded her PhD in which a motivational chatbot called 'RehabChat' was co-designed and developed for supporting goal-setting and attainment by clients receiving brain injury rehabilitation. RehabChat provides a conversational user-interface and is intended to be used with clinician oversight alongside usual rehabilitation care.
Judith is currently part of a research team conducting a feasibility trial of RehabChat in brain injury rehabilitation clinic settings. This one-year project is fully funded by the Lifetime Support Authority (grant #R2229).
Judith's work is informed by scientific literature and co-design processes. Her prior clinical experience as a physiotherapist spans 20 years, with much of this including working in multi-disciplinary settings with clients with movement and cognitive challenges arising from acquired and developmental conditions.
2022 PhD - Flinders Digital Health Research Centre, Flinders University
2016 M. Clinical Sci. - The Joanna Briggs Institute, The University of Adelaide
2008 B. Health Sci (Hons) - Discipline of Medicine, The University of Adelaide
1994 B. App. Sci. (Physiotherapy) - University of South Australia
Judith's current work within the grant-funded project for feasibility testing of RehabChat in clinic settings involves the following key responsibilities which will be completed in consultation with the rest of the research team:
- Iterative refinement and technical testing of RehabChat
- Integration of RehabChat for use by clients and clinicians in the clinical settings
- Ensuring that the needs of clients with acquired brain injury (ABI) and clinicians providing brain injury rehabilitation are noted and addressed throughout the project's life-cycle
- Planning for 'next-steps' of research for RehabChat - its development and testing
- Drafting key documents: ethics amendments and reports; funder reports
- Maintaining stakeholder relationships: email, meetings, update reports.
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