Barbara Piskur is ass. prof. at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Care, Research Centre for Autonomy and Participation (NL) and Hasselt University, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, REVAL Rehabilitation Research Centre (BE). She is an occupational therapist with a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences: The role of parents in enabling the participation of their child with physical disability: Actions, challenges and needs, 2015. MSc. in Occupational Therapy: Occupation and Well-being: A Study of Some Slovenian People's Experiences of Engagement in Occupation in Relation to Well-being (2001). Barbara has over 20 years of experience in education and care and 13 years in research about participation, enviroment and belonging. Currently, she is a leader of Participation and Environment theme. She is an associate member of the Canadian research group CanChild and, since 2021, chair of the board of the European MSc in Occupational Therapy at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.