Dr Tim Barlott

Honorary Research Fellow

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences

Overview

Tim Barlott is an Associate Lecturer in Occupational Therapy (School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences), PhD candidate in Sociology (School of Social Sciences), and Co-Director of the SocioHealthLab. Tim has a background as a community practitioner, educator, and community-based participatory researcher in Canada, Australia, and internationally.

Drawing from (critical) social theory and postmodern philosphy, Tim's research interrogates the socio-political aspects of everyday life and social inequities, and pursues affirmative/disruptive/transformative possibilities. Tim's research primarily uses the work of postmodern philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Their work provides a useful set of theoretical tools for conceptualising social inequities, analysing the dynamic relations of complex social formations, and pursuing transformational change. Using a Deleuzio-Guattarian conceptual framework, Tim's PhD research explores the transformative potential of freely-given relationships for people diagnosed with a severe mental illness.

Current Research Projects:

  • Cartographies of freely-given relationships in mental health (PhD project)
  • Ethical tensions in occupational therapy practice that attends to social inequities
  • Theorising the creativity and social production of occupation
  • Social connectedness and ICT use by people with intellectual/learning disabilities

Research Interests

  • Critical occupational science
  • Sociology of health
  • Social transformation
  • Community Mental health
  • Micropolitics
  • Connectedness
  • Community development
  • Poststructuralism
  • New materialism
  • Posthumanism
  • Social theory
  • Citizenship
  • Community-based participatory research (CBPR)
  • Post-qualitative research
  • Qualitative research
  • Postmodernism
  • Deleuze and Guattari
  • Social movements

Qualifications

  • Masters (Coursework) of Science in Rehabilitation Science - Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta
  • Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta

Publications

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). (Dis)organising allyship, becoming-complicit. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 141-154) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-10

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). An entry point. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 80-90) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-6

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Assembling. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 47-60) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-4

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Becoming-minor, mapping territories. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 35-46) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-3

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Cartography of becoming. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 110-126) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-8

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Cartography of desire. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 127-140) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-9

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Cartography of territories. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 91-109) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-7

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Destabilising major mental health approaches. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 14-34) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-2

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Doing a cartography. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 61-79) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-5

  • Barlott, Tim and Setchell, Jenny (2022). The edge of things. Edge Entanglements with Mental Health Allyship, Research, and Practice. (pp. 1-13) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003286486-1

  • Rodriguez, Francene and Barlott, Tim (2019). Experiencias de los cuidadores en el contacto con las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación para el desarrollo. Rehabilitación Basada en Comunidad: una estrategia local para el acceso a derechos y el ejercicio de la ciudadanía. (pp. 1-14) edited by Solangel Garcia. Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

  • Barlott, Timothy (2021). Cartography of freely-given relationships in mental health. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/5f2bdb1

  • Barlott, Tim (2021). Becoming-sick. Journal of Autoethnography, 2 (2), 215-216. doi: 10.1525/joae.2021.2.2.215