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Senior Lecturer
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
What do adults with intellectual disability understand about their health and health needs? A focus group study… Disability sports… passionate about engaging in research to improve the lives of people with disabilities through sport… reliability. Normal performance ranges were developed to allow results of athletes with a disability…
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- e.beckman@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 334 67904
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Dr Emma Beckman is a Teaching and Research academic at the University of Queensland. Emma is passionate about engaging in research to improve the lives of people with disabilities through sport. Following a master’s degree in Adapted physical activity, Emma completed her PhD in strength assessment …
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Senior Lecturer
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social WorkFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
The experiences of people with intellectual disability and other cognitive disabilities as accused… Life story work and social work practice: A case study with ex-prisoners labelled as having an intellectual disability… People with cognitive disability and the criminal justice system… government and non-government sectors, working with children, young people and their families in disability… people with disability (Gillman, Swain, & Heyman, 1997). Social workers need to develop…
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- k.ellem@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 334 69013
Dr Kathy Ellem is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at The University of Queensland, Australia. She has previously practiced as a social worker in both government and non-government sectors, working with children, young people and their families in disability and …
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Professor
School of EducationFaculty of Humanities and Social SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Does age and level of support needs influence the relinquishment of family members with a disability… 'We need to talk' : Social and ethical dialogue around genomices and disability… A family having to relinquish the care of their family member with a disability is a situation that…
Education; Studies in Human Society; Medical and Health Sciences; Nursing; Public Health and Health Services; Education Systems; Specialist Studies in Education; Policy and Administration; Care for Disabled; Health and Community Services; Higher Education; Special Education and Disability; Social Policy;- Email:
- k.nankervis@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56493
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Research Fellow - Paralympics
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Disability sports… Paralympic classification systems aim to promote participation in sport by people with disabilities…
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- m.connick@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56117
Dr Mark Connick is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland. His research is funded by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is a member of the IPC Classification Research and Development Centre.
Mark’s primary resea …
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Associate Professor
Mater Research Institute-UQFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Health care utilization, cost burden and coping strategies by disability status: an analysis of the Viet Nam National Health Survey… Health of adults with intellectual and developmental disability… The RAPID (Reducing Antipsychotics in People with Intellectual Disability) study… I am Director of The Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (QCIDD). I… Adult developmental disability medicine… Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (QCIDD). Before commencing in my current role I… disability status to assist in the design of equitable health systems in developing countries. Using…
Biological Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Medical Microbiology; Public Health and Health Services; Ecology; Microbiology; Zoology; Clinical Sciences; Infectious Diseases; Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy); Medical Bacteriology; Medical Virology; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health; Care for Disabled; Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety; Epidemiology; Health Promotion; Mental Health; Preventive Medicine; Primary Health Care; Infectious Agents; Invertebrate Biology; Vertebrate Biology;- Email:
- d.harley@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 3163 1587
Introduction
I am a clinician-scientist and Director of The Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (QCIDD). Before commencing in my current role I held academic positions at The Australian National University (2008-16, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health) …
My expertise on Ross River virus has led to two pharmaceutical industry consultancies. I have also completed consultancies in China for AusAid investigating a tick-borne Bunyavirus (2010), and consulted to WHO on climate and health in Cambodia (2009 and 2012). I also completed consultancy work on cl …
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Associate Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Cerebral palsy is the most common type of physical disability impacting on 1 in 500 children, with… A National Initiative for Increasing Sports Participation among Australians with a Disability… Motor Accident Insurance Commission Queensland Teaching and Community Service Rehabilitation Research Fellowship in Physical Activity and Disability… Sean has two primary research interests in the field of physical activity and disability… purpose (to promote participation in sport by people with disabilities by minimising the impact of…
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- s.tweedy@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56638
Sean has two primary research interests in the field of physical activity and disability:
1. Increasing physically active behaviour among people with disabilities : The health benefit of physical activity for the general population is well established and research indicates that the health benefit …
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Adjunct Associate Professor
School of EducationFaculty of Humanities and Social SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
This project focuses on how young adults with an intellectual disability construct their futures… Experience of family members, including siblings, of having a child with a disability in the family.… to or secondary to disability, who are in out-of-home care: A systematic review… Parenting employment-decisions and family functioning in community context: Normative features and disability specific factors… Family functioning in families with a child with a disability… with intellectual disability, family functioning in families with a child with a disability, and… Families of children with disabilities have been the subject of a number of myths, some of which…
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- m.cuskelly@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56481
Down syndrome
Dr Cuskelly is the Director of the long running Down Syndrome Research Program based at The University of Queensland. In addition to her interests in the development of individuals with Down syndrome she has research interests in the psycho-social functioning of individuals with intel …
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Associate Professor
School of LawFaculty of Business, Economics and LawMatched phrases in profile:
and Hierarchies of Impairments 2. The Relevance of International Disability Human Rights Laws to… Digital copyright and disability discrimination: From Braille books to bookshare… From ratification to implementation: The disability human rights paradigm and the right to work in the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities… International and Comparative Disability Law… Associate Professor Paul Harpur is a leading international and comparative disability rights… Persons with disabilities have endured discrimination and live under social apartheid. While…
Law;- Email:
- p.harpur@law.uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 58864
Associate Professor Paul Harpur is a leading international and comparative disability rights legal academic having held visiting positions with the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, Institute for Lifecourse & Society, National University of Ireland, Galway and with the Burton Blatt Institute, Co …
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Honorary Associate Professor
School of EducationFaculty of Humanities and Social SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
6 to 9) with students with developmental disabilities. It will also evaluate teacher-developed interventions in written expression.''… A day in the life: Using photographs to scaffold literacy development in young adults with intellectual disabilities… Intervention for written expression: Middle school students with developmental disabilities… Literacy, teacher education, literacy and intellectual disability, teaching and learning in… This study reports on the writing achievement of students with developmental disabilities and…
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- k.moni@uq.edu.au
Literacy, teacher education, literacy and intellectual disability, teaching and learning in higher education
Associate Professor Karen Moni has had extensive experience teaching and researching in the field of English and literacy education. Her research interests include adolescent literacy and li …
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Honorary Associate Professor
Mater Research Institute-UQFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Gene networks associated with non-syndromic intellectual disability… Investigation of individuals with idiopathic intellectual disability… unexplained intellectual disability. The study will increase understanding of fundamental biological abnormalities underpinning intellectual disability.… the developmental origins of neuro-disability. Paul’s research group collaborates very… Non-syndromic intellectual disability (NS-ID) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder, with more…
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- paul.dawson@mater.uq.edu.au
Associate Professor Paul Dawson is the Mater Research Head of Education, a Principal Research Fellow and Program Leader of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Health research program at Mater Research, as well as being an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Paul leads the Develo …
Since joining Mater Research in 2010, A/Prof Dawson has brought together collaborative groups of clinicians, biomedical researchers, research entities (MCH/LCCH, MMH, QBI, QCIDD, AIBN, UQ CAI and SBMS) and the Mater Foundation, to investigate the aetiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. These coll …
