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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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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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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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Lecturer
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
activity competence in school aged children with neurodevelopmental disabilities… The SPORTY Project: Sports Priorities and Objectives for Research & Translation for Youth with childhood-onset disability… sports intervention) for children with disability or inpairment in first nations communities in… 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
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- +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 and Western Australia as well as in Brazil. She has also provided a number of workshops and mentoring for clinicians wanting to develop their ow …
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Research Fellow
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Dedifferentiation and difference: people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)… of law and regulation in practice for people with disabilities and other impairments to… Dedifferentiationrepresents the merging of the wider "intellectual disability" category with the…
Studies in Human Society; Law and Legal Studies; Policy and Administration; Sociology; Law; Social Policy; Sociological Methodology and Research Methods; Law and Society; Human Society; Health Sciences; Philosophy and Religious Studies; Law and Legal Studies; Policy and administration; Sociology; Law in context; Applied ethics; Health services and systems; Public law; Law and society and socio-legal research; Residential client care; Aged health care; Legal ethics; People with disability; Human rights and justice issues (excl. law); Welfare, insurance, disability and social security law; Sociological methodology and research methods; Social policy;- Email:
- michelle.king@uq.edu.au
Michelle is a sociologist and lawyer: her research focuses on decision-making and the operation of law and regulation in practice for people with disabilities and other impairments to communication and capacity. She has research interests in the sociology of law, decision-making (supported and subst …
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Research Fellow
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Coming of Age on the Margins: A Life Course Perspective on the Time-Use of Australian Adolescents with Disabilities… and determinants of children’s and adolescents’ time-use, including for adolescents with disability… Adolescents with disabilities experience multiple disadvantages spanning health, education, social…
Studies in Human Society; Demography; Policy and Administration; Sociology; Family and Household Studies; Social Policy; Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment; Sociological Methodology and Research Methods; Psychology; Human Society; Health Sciences; Policy and administration; Applied and developmental psychology; Sociology; Epidemiology; Social work; Sociology of inequalities; Child and adolescent development; Sociology of family and relationships; Sociology of health; Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment; Social epidemiology; Sociological methodology and research methods; Sociology of the life course; Social policy;- Email:
- m.oflaherty@uq.edu.au
Dr Martin O’Flahertyis a research fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course located in the Institute for Social Science Research. Martin has made important contributions to the evaluation of nationally significant social policy, often working with the De …
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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 …
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Lecturer in Occupational Therapy
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
balance, and management of additional responsibilities when there is a family member with a disability… Should schools expect poor physical and mental health, social adjustment, and participation outcomes in students with disability?… Health and wellbeing of parents of children with a disability, in particular autism… youth with intellectual disability (ID) aimed at developing skills and building networks.MethodsYouth…
Medical and Health Sciences; Other Medical and Health Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified;- Email:
- t.mcauliffe@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 52084
Tomomi has worked in mental health practice, before changing the direction of her career to the tertiary education sector. As she worked with people who were mothers in clinical context, she became interested in the power of mothering role and occupation. This interest has led her to start her PhD s …
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Senior Research Fellow
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social WorkFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Conflicting models of care for people with mental disabilities in Charles Dickens's fiction and journalism… her passion for English literature and completed a doctorate in the field of literary disability… people with mental disabilities in England at the time. Dickens's support for the disadvantaged is…
Medical and Health Sciences; Nursing; Clinical Nursing: Secondary (Acute Care); Health Sciences; Health services and systems; Nursing; People with disability; Acute care; Biomedical and Clinical Sciences;- Email:
- g.raybarruel@uq.edu.au
Gillian Ray-Barruel, RN PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow with UQ School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work and the Herston Infectious Diseases Institute (HeIDI), and she is Director of Education with the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR).
Following a successful and rewa …
After identifying a gap between evidence-based guidelines and clinical practice, Gillian created the I-DECIDED® device assessment and decision tool, which has appeared in several foundational nursing textbooks and is now used in many hospitals worldwide. To learn more, visit I-DECIDED assessment and …
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Senior Lecturer in Occ Therapy
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
people with a range of disabilities. Examples include understanding the everyday lives of people… The meaning of leisure for children and young people with physical disabilities: a systematic evidence synthesis… Disability - experience and participation… experiences of people with disabilities. She specialises in the use of qualitative research methods and uses a… needs of practicing professionals. Professional partners from health, education, disability services…
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- m.turpin@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56491
Dr Turpin’s research centres on the clinical/professional reasoning of occupational therapists across the spectrum of experience from new graduates to experts, as well as the subjective experiences of people with disabilities. She specialises in the use of qualitative research methods and uses a v …
Dr Turpin works closely with Queensland Heath regarding supporting the clinical reasoning of occupational therapists with a range of experience. She also works with a range of organisations to use personal and occupational therapy understandings to improve the lives of people with Disabilities.
