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Associate Professor
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… Implementation and scale-up of a consumer co-designed physical activity promotion program for people with moderate-to-profound disabilities… Disability sports… passionate about engaging in research to improve the lives of people with a disability through sports… 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 a disability through sports, physical activity, and exercise. Following a master’s degree in Adapted physical activity, Emma comple …
Dr Beckman has strong connections to the sports science industry through her research, particularly in translation of her research into rules and regulations that impact on para athletes worldwide. On the basis of research conducted by Dr Beckman and her team, the International Paralympic Committee …
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Associate Professor In Education
School of EducationFaculty of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Support for Students with Hidden Disabilities in Universities: A Case Study… Disability discrimination in education… The Commonwealth of Australia (2016) inquiry into access to learning for students with disability…
Education; Law and Legal Studies; Specialist Studies in Education; Law; Special Education and Disability; Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators; Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified; Human Rights Law; Law and Legal Studies; Education systems; Specialist studies in education; Education;- Email:
- s.poed@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56872
Dr Shiralee Poed is an Associate Professor within the School of Education at the University of Queensland. She is also the Chair of the Association for Positive Behaviour Support Australia. Her career spans more than 30 years, and includes working as a teacher and leader in Australian state, Catholi …
Shiralee's teaching, research, leadership, and service focus on systems change to address inequities in the education of students with disability, particularly where this manifests in behaviour. Her expertise includes: (i) evidence-based interventions to support the inclusion of learners with disabi …
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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… research program he aims to generate the knowledge required to empower people with disabilities to… 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
A/Prof Sean Tweedy leads the Para Sport and Adapted Physical Activity Research Group in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland. Through his applied research program he aims to generate the knowledge required to empower people with disabilities to pursue self-di …
Sean developed the Adapted Physical Activity Program (APAP), a theory-driven physical activity promotion program for community dwelling people disabilities. A controlled clinical trial demonstrated its efficacy in people with acquired brain injury, providing impetus for its implementation into the A …
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Professor
School of EducationFaculty of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
disabilities. The significance of this study is in solving a problem facing teachers who are required by law… Conceptualising educational quality of life to understand the school experiences of students with intellectual disability… 'We need to talk' : Genomics and disability… Key research areas: Intellectual and developmental disability; Inclusive… experience for students with disabilities. The continued failure of policy to address the factors that…
Education systems; Specialist studies in education; Curriculum and pedagogy; Inclusive education; Special education and disability; Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy; Secondary education; Education; Curriculum and Pedagogy; Specialist Studies in Education; Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy; Special Education and Disability; Education;- Email:
- r.faragher@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56481
Key research areas: Intellectual and developmental disability; Inclusive mathematics education; Down syndrome; Mathematics learning difficulties; Quality of life.
Dr Rhonda Faragher AO is a Professor in Inclusive Education. She has internationally recognised expertise in the mathematics education o …
Everyone deserves the right to be successful with mathematics, not just for the opportunities for employment and social inclusion, but also for the sheer enjoyment of a major area of human endeavour. Unfortunately, too many students are not finding enjoyment and accomplishment in their mathematics e …
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ATH - Associate Professor
UQ Centre for Clinical ResearchFaculty 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… The RAPID (Reducing Antipsychotics in People with Intellectual Disability) study… Adult developmental disability medicine… ) ยท Director, Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (to January 2021… 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; Health Sciences; Health promotion; Epidemiology; People with disability; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing; Medical microbiology; Infectious diseases; Clinical sciences; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; Vertebrate biology; Invertebrate biology; Zoology; Infectious agents; Microbiology; Ecology; Biological Sciences;- Email:
- d.harley@uq.edu.au
CURRENT POSITIONS
· Senior Staff Specialist (Public Health Medicine), Queensland Health
· Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Research - University of Queensland
· Adjunct Professor, Griffith University Medical School
RECENT POSITIONS
· General Practitioner, I …
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Senior Research Fellow
Mater Research Institute-UQFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Challenging Behaviour in People with Intellectual Disability: Essentials for the Psychiatrist… with intellectual and developmental disability living with diabetes and their support people: Diabetes to the Point… disability and those on the autism spectrum. Cathy is a psychiatrist who has specialised in the psychiatry of… Mental illness is common in people with intellectual disability. They may also have physical health…
Medical and Health Sciences; Public Health and Health Services; Psychology; Care for Disabled; Mental Health; Developmental Psychology and Ageing; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; Clinical sciences; Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy); Psychology and Cognitive Sciences;- Email:
- c.franklin1@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 3163 1625
Dr Cathy Franklin is passionate about improving the health of people with intellectual disability and those on the autism spectrum. Cathy is a psychiatrist who has specialised in the psychiatry of intellectual disability and autism in adolescents and adults since 2004. Her career focussed on clinica …
Cathy, along with colleague Dr Katie Brooker, made a submission and gave evidence at teh Queensland Parliament Mental Health Select Committee in 2022, outlining the evidence around the difficulties that people with intelelctual disabitliy and those on the autism spectrum experience when accessing he …
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Lecturer
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
activity competence in school aged children with neurodevelopmental disabilities… INSPIRE Participation: Measuring sport and physical recreation participation for children with disabilities.… participation for children with disabilities to identify children with low levels of participation who may… disability to participate in physical recreation and sport. She has worked clinically in government… fitness, self-esteem, confidence and quality of life of children with disabilities. The Sports Stars…
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- g.clutterbuck@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +61 7 334 69396
Dr Georgina Clutterbuck is a physiotherapist who is passionate about supporting children with disability to participate in physical recreation and sport. She has worked clinically in government and not-for-profit sectors and in her own private practice and enjoys sharing her real-world experiences w …
Dr Clutterbuck’s work has resulted in Sports Stars trained clinicians providing this intervention in metro and rural areas of Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia as well as in Brazil. She has also provided a number of workshops and mentoring for clinicians wanting to devel …
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Adjunct Associate Professor
School of EducationFaculty of Humanities, Arts 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
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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ARC Future Fellow
School of LawFaculty of Business, Economics and LawMatched phrases in profile:
disabilities to transition from economic exclusion to work. One in five Australians have a disability… and Hierarchies of Impairments 2. The Relevance of International Disability Human Rights Laws to… Digital copyright and disability discrimination: From Braille books to bookshare… Young people with cognitive disability transitioning to adulthood: experiences of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation… International and Comparative Disability Law… all. He advances his vision through advancing human rights and helping universities become disability… Persons with disabilities have endured discrimination and live under social apartheid. While…
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services; Law and Legal Studies; International and comparative law; Commercial law; Human resources and industrial relations; Law in context; Public law; Labour law; Employment equity and diversity; Comparative law; Welfare, insurance, disability and social security law; Law, science and technology;- Email:
- p.harpur@law.uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 58864
Professor Paul Harpur OAM (introductory video) aims to create a world which is more inclusive for all. He advances his vision through advancing human rights and helping universities become disability champions of change. Professor Harpur is an nationally and internationally acclaimed legal scholar, …
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Lecturer in Occupational Therapy
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesResearch Fellow
Faculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Experiences of National Disability Insurance Scheme providers across Australia: A qualitative exploration… -modifications and their influence on participation outcomes, and facilitating leisure opportunities for people with disabilities.… , Disability and Health (ICF) provides a valuable framework that can be useful for categorising key…
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- m.hoyle@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56161
Melanie Hoyle is a Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at The University of Queensland. She completed her PhD is 2022 and Masters in Occupational Therapy Studies in 2004. These degrees were on the back of previously completed studies in science, psychology, health management and health promotion. Melan …
