About us

Te Whare Whakamātūtū | The Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit

Te Whare Whakamātūtū | The Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit is an interprofessional team (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, clinical psychology and medicine) of researchers and educators based at the University of Otago in Wellington. Guiding our choices and actions in teaching and research are these principles:

1. Relationship: Create safe and inclusive spaces for developing collaborative and reciprocal relationships in learning and knowledge generation.
2. Responsiveness: Stay curious, listen actively, and enable rehabilitation stakeholders to shape what is taught and researched.
3. Reframing: Challenge what is taken for granted in what rehabilitation is, where, when and how it is done, and prioritise the voices of those with knowledge of rehabilitation from lived experience.

Our aim, in all our mahi, is to increase knowledge and its translation to support equity of rehabilitation access, experience and outcome. Our vision is that every person experiencing the enduring consequences of a health condition is enabled to live a flourishing life.