Richard Smaill Email & Phone Number | Richard has lived with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) since 1974, when he was injured playing rugby, aged 15 years. He went back to school to gain UE, then went on to study Psychology at University of Otago and Canterbury University, becoming a registered Psychologist in 1984. He worked for many years in the health services in a variety of positions in research, planning and senior management. Also over this time he completed a Diploma in Health Service Management and was also awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship to study health information systems in Great Britain. He left the health services in 1993 to become self-employed establishing a business undertaking career counseling as well as a variety of consultancy work. In 2000 he incurred secondary health complications relating to his original SCI which resulted in further lost of movement and finally neurosurgery in 2002. From this experience he began reading about the issues facing ageing people with SCI which lead him to start a part-time doctorate research project at University of Otago Christchurch in 2006. He was fortunate to be granted an 87,000 Health Research Council Disability Research Placement Award. The doctorate thesis Ageing SCI in New Zealand was completed in 2014 and was recognized by the Division of Health Sciences as being of exceptional quality. He has been involved in a variety of charitable organizations at a governance level. He was a trustee and then Chair of the Board of Trustees for the St John of God Services (2001-2005), trustee of the Burwood Academy of Independent Living (2005-2016) trustee and Chair of the NZ Spinal Trust for many years, recently stepping down as Chair but remains a trustee (2002-). Trustee on the Waimairi School Board (1998-2004). He is happily married with two adult children.

Richard Smaill

Richard has lived with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) since 1974, when he was injured playing rugby, age...
Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Richard Smaill is a Richard has lived with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) since 1974, when he was injured playing rugby, aged 15 years. He went back to school to gain UE, then went on to study Psychology at University of Otago and Canterbury University, becoming a registered Psychologist in 1984. He worked for many years in the health services in a variety of positions in research, planning and senior management. Also over this time he completed a Diploma in Health Service Management and was also awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship to study health information systems in Great Britain. He left the health services in 1993 to become self-employed establishing a business undertaking career counseling as well as a variety of consultancy work. In 2000 he incurred secondary health complications relating to his original SCI which resulted in further lost of movement and finally neurosurgery in 2002. From this experience he began reading about the issues facing ageing people with SCI which lead him to start a part-time doctorate research project at University of Otago Christchurch in 2006. He was fortunate to be granted an 87,000 Health Research Council Disability Research Placement Award. The doctorate thesis Ageing SCI in New Zealand was completed in 2014 and was recognized by the Division of Health Sciences as being of exceptional quality. He has been involved in a variety of charitable organizations at a governance level. He was a trustee and then Chair of the Board of Trustees for the St John of God Services (2001-2005), trustee of the Burwood Academy of Independent Living (2005-2016) trustee and Chair of the NZ Spinal Trust for many years, recently stepping down as Chair but remains a trustee (2002-). Trustee on the Waimairi School Board (1998-2004). He is happily married with two adult children.