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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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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… Young people with cognitive disability transitioning to adulthood: experiences of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation… 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, Arts and Social SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Assessment, treatment and supports for people with intellectual disability who offend… Why do families relinquish care of their family member with a disability?… 'We need to talk' : Genomics and disability… Forensic 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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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… More students with disabilities are accessing the tertiary sector with many disabilities not easily…
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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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… 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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Associate 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…
Curriculum and Pedagogy; Specialist Studies in Education; Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy; Special Education and Disability; Education systems; Specialist studies in education; Curriculum and pedagogy; Secondary education; Inclusive education; Special education and disability; Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy; Education; 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 an Associate Professor in Inclusive Education. She has internationally recognised expertise in the mathematics …
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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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… Dr Cathy Franklin is a psychiatrist who specialises in the psychiatry of intellectual disability… 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 a psychiatrist who specialises in the psychiatry of intellectual disability and autism in adolescents and adults. Cathy has worked in this area since 2004, and her career has largely focussed on clinical work and education until 2015, when she commenced a part-time research appo …
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Principal Research Fellow
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineATH - Associate Professor
Child Health Research CentreFaculty of MedicineAssociate Professor/Specialist
Children's Health Queensland Clinical UnitFaculty of MedicineMatched phrases in profile:
Sleep and Disability… with Down syndrome. Her areas of research interest include sleep in children with disability, the… In children with developmental disabilities the risk of negative health and developmental outcomes…
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- j.chawla@uq.edu.au
Dr Jasneek Chawla undertook her specialist training in Edinburgh UK, followed by a Paediatric Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the Mater Children's Hospital in Brisbane. She is now a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and Senior Lectur …
Dr Chawla's research focuses on raising awareness of the importance of sleep for children. It aims to improve sleep evaluation for high-risk children such as those with Down syndrome and other disabilities. Dr Chawla is collaborating internationally and nationally to develop services for these group …
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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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Mater Research Institute-UQFaculty of MedicineHonorary 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.… intellectual disability and autism. Paul’s research group collaborates very closely with… 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, MRI-UQ Director of Higher Degree Research, and a Mater Foundation Principal Research Fellow. Paul leads the Neurodevelopmental Research Group at Mater, which is focussed on cerebral palsy in preterm infants, non-syndromic intel …
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 …
