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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…
- Email:
- 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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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
- Ph:
- +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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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…
- Email:
- s.tweedy@uq.edu.au
- Ph:
- +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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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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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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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
- Ph:
- +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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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 …
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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… possible for people with intellectual disabilities. Until recently, limited research has been undertaken…
- Email:
- 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
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Methods and strategies to support regular participation in physical activity for people with disability.… Commentary on "Development of LDPAQ: learning disability physical activity questionnaire"… Implementation and scale-up of a consumer co-designed physical activity promotion program for people with moderate-to-profound disabilities… Supporting physical activity participation for people with disability… clinical and research experience working to support people with disability engage in physical activity… set and suitable experiences to appropriately support people with intellectual disabilities to be…
Medical and Health Sciences; Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Veterinary Sciences; Health Sciences; Allied health and rehabilitation science; Occupational therapy; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; Veterinary sciences; Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences;- Email:
- jessica.hill@uq.edu.au
Jess has worked as a paediatric occupational therapist in private practice since graduating from her undergraduate degree. She gained additional training in animal-assisted therapy (canine and equine) in 2015 and became interested in the role animals could play in facilitating client motivation and …
