Dr. Norman is a Professor in the Queen's School of Rehabilitation Therapy, and also serves as Associate Director, Research and Post-professional Programs. Dr. Norman's research is currently focused on physiotherapist workforce issues and physiotherapy student education; this research encompasses demographics and history of the profession, practice patterns and assessment of competence. It also includes how physiotherapy students learn to be skilled, and how physiotherapists work in our current health care systems. Her collaborative research includes projects about primary care delivery to people with pain conditions, especially low back pain.
Research Interests
Physiotherapist workforce issues and physiotherapy student education; this research encompasses demographics of the profession, practice patterns and assessment of competence
Research in Progress
Primary care management of back pain in Ontario; history of the physiotherapy profession in Canada; and refining the definition of Rehabilitation Science.
Research Network/Group Involvement
Reznick Scholars, Faculty of Health Sciences