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School of EducationFaculty of Humanities 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 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
- Ph:
- +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:
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
- Ph:
- +61 7 334 67904
- Mobile:
- 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…
- Email:
- k.ellem@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +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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Associate Professor
School of EducationFaculty of Humanities 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 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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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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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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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…
- Email:
- 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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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… ) · 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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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… disability rights advocate and legal academic. He is currently an… 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
- Ph:
- +61 7 336 58864
Associate Professor Paul Harpur (introductory video) is a leading international and comparative disability rights advocate and legal academic. He is currently an Affiliatean with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and an International Distinguished Fellow with Burton Blatt Institute, Coll …
