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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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- 0431807573
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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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… The RAPID (Reducing Antipsychotics in People with Intellectual Disability) study… 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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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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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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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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Lecturer in Occupational Therapy
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Time-use of families of children with a disability; use of family routines in clinical practice; family routines management… Should schools expect poor physical and mental health, social adjustment, and participation outcomes in students with disability?… Health and wellbeing of mothers of children with a disability… youth with intellectual disability (ID) aimed at developing skills and building networks.MethodsYouth…
Medical and Health Sciences; Other Medical and Health Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified;- Email:
- t.mcauliffe@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 52084
Tomomi has worked in mental health practice, before changing the direction of her career to the tertiary education sector. As she worked with people who were mothers in clinical context, she became interested in the power of mothering role and occupation. This interest has led her to start her PhD s …
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Senior Research Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, Acquired Brain Injury, infants at risk of neurodevelopmental disability including due to prematurity… Comments on a study of the social validity of the developmental disability parent training program Stepping Stones Triple P… Neurodevelopmental Disabilities… disabilities including autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury and… diverse developmental disabilities and there is considerable support for the validity and…
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- koawhittingham@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 3069 7346
I am a senior research fellow at the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre within the UQ Child Health Research Centre in the Faculty of Medicine. My research spans three key areas: (1) parenting, transition to parenting, and parenting intervention, (2) neurodevelopmental disa …
I am the author of Becoming Mum, a self-help book for the transition to motherhood grounded in ACT and the first author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy the Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents. I have an interest in developing online interventions using the platform EdX.
