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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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Honorary Senior Fellow
School of PharmacyFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMedia Keywords: Swallowing disorders; Feeding disorders; Chewing disorders; Swallowing difficulty; Fussy eaters; Feeding difficulties - children; Food - children; Eating - fussy eaters; Medication - difficulty in swallowing; Cervical auscultation; Food - texture, viscosity, swollowing; Barium swallow; -
Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Achieving optimal nutrition and physical activity outcomes for children with disabilities…
Medical and Health Sciences; Nutrition and Dietetics; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Public Health and Health Services; Clinical and Sports Nutrition; Public Nutrition Intervention; Paediatrics; Primary Health Care;- Email:
- j.walker3@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56116
Dr Jacqueline Walker joined the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences in November 2015 and is working as a Lecturer. She completed her doctoral degree in paediatric nutrition at The University of Queensland in March 2013, focusing on energy balance and body composition in children with cer …
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Professor in Occupational Therapy
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
A central concern of the current Queensland Bilateral - Commonwealth-State/Territory Disability… The politics of entitlement and personalisation: Perspectives on a proposed National Disability Long-Term Care and Support Scheme in Australia… Identifying factors for successful integration of persons with disabilities post motor vehicle accidents (MVA) using technology in the workplace… for people with complex neurological disability. She is Head of Occupational Therapy at The… 'entitlement based on need' and 'personalisation' frame the proposed National Disability Long-Term Care and…
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- j.fleming@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 59725
Dr Fleming is an occupational therapist and researcher in the field of brain injury rehabilitation. Her PhD completed in 1996 was on the topic of the development of self-awareness following traumatic brain injury. She has continued to pursue collaborative research on role of metacognitive factors in …
Dr Fleming is the developer of the Self-Awareness of Deficits Interview which is a widely used assessment in brain injury rehabilitation and research around the world. Her work on the transition from hospital to home after brain injury helped inform the development of the Acquired Brain Injury Trans …
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Professor - CBEH
Centre for the Business and Economics of HealthFaculty of Business, Economics and LawAffiliate Professor Level E
UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous HealthFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
with an orthodox treatment of advice and graded exercise on pain and disability in chronic whiplash.… Earning and conversion handicaps and the welfare economics of disability… (CKD). Ongoing interests include the economics of disability and insurance, compensable injury… disabilities, viz. an ‘earning handicap’ and a ‘conversion handicap’. In this article, these concepts are…
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- l.connelly@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 334 64573
Luke Connelly is Professor of Health Economics at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health. He also holds a Professorial appointment (part-time) at The University of Bologna, to which he was appointed in 2017 via the Italian “Direct Call” process.In 2019 he was appointed as Honorary P …
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Emeritus Professor
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
but not in work disability prevention. Self management provides the worker with opportunities to… Predictors of disability in patients with chronic low back pain… investigate other measurement properties of the GAPP FCE using populations with injury or disability.…
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- j.strong@uq.edu.au
Jenny was appointed Professor of Occupational Therapy in 1997. At the end of 2015, Jenny took early retirement from UQ. In January 2016, she was awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of The University of Queensland. Jenny is now using her time to facilitate and enable a new generation of clinica …
Emeritus Professor Jenny Strong's work into the psychosocial aspects of chronic pain is important. In the mid-1980's, she realised that while the biolgical aspects of pain were being increasingly well-researched, the psych-social aspects of pain were, at best, being mis-understood.
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Honorary Senior ResearchFellow
School of PsychologyFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Depression is the leading cause of disability in young people (aged 15-25) globally. Loneliness is…
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Public Health and Health Services; Psychology; Mental Health; Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology; Social and Community Psychology;- Email:
- t.cruwys@uq.edu.au
Tegan is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Clinical Psychologist at the Australian National University, with an Honorary Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Queensland. Her research investigates how social relationships shape mental and physical health; work that is at the …
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Assoc Professor in Biostatistics
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
People with the communication disability of aphasia following stroke are critical of rehabilitation… Early intervention services for children with physical disability: Parents' perceptions of family-centeredness and service satisfaction… Early intervention services for children with physical disability: Child, family and community determinants of successful transition to school… investigate other measurement properties of the GAPP FCE using populations with injury or disability.…
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- a.khan2@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 334 67456
Asad has been with the University of Queensland since 2006. Prior to this, he has held academic appointments in biostatistics at the University of Sydney and the University of Dhaka. His current research focuses on the epidemiology of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and their inter-relations …
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Acting Executive Dean
Faculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Third-party disability in spouses of older people with hearing impairment… Communication impairment, disability and handicap in the ethnic aged… people. To date, most of the research on community access for people with disabilities has been on…
Medical and Health Sciences; Public Health and Health Services; Other Medical and Health Sciences; Clinical Sciences; Rehabilitation and Therapy (excl. Physiotherapy); Clinical Sciences not elsewhere classified; Aged Health Care; Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified;- Email:
- l.hickson@uq.edu.au
hearing impairment, hearing loss, hearing rehabilitation and habilitation for children and adults
Louise Hickson is Professor of Audiology and Associate Dean External Engagement in the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences at The University of Queensland. Professor Hickson has published 250 re …
Prof Hickson is a world leader in hearing rehabilitation research and her work has changed practice in Australia and overseas. For example, the Active Communication Education (ACE) program that she developed and evaluated has been used in Australia, the UK, the USA, Canada, Korea, Iran,Germany and S …
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Honorary Associate Professor
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
but not in work disability prevention. Self management provides the worker with opportunities to… environment. The long-term benefits of such a training program will be the prevention of work disability and… Interactive effects from self-reported physical and psychosocial factors in the workplace on neck pain and disability in female office workers… . She has qualifications in physiotherapy, occupational health and safety and work disability prevention… neck pain and disability in female computer users. A self-report survey was used to collect data on…
Medical and Health Sciences; Human Movement and Sports Science; Public Health and Health Services; Clinical Sciences; Physiotherapy; Biomechanics; Health Promotion;- Email:
- v.johnston@uq.edu.au
Dr Venerina Johnston is a researcher and Associate Professor at The University of Queensland. She has qualifications in physiotherapy, occupational health and safety and work disability prevention. Her research is focused on improving work participation for those with compensable musculoskeletal inj …
