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Senior Lecturer
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… 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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Research Fellow
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesLecturer-Sports Science/Para Sports
School of Human Movement and Nutrition SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Disability sports… Paralympic classification systems aim to promote participation in sport by people with disabilities…
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- m.connick@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56117
Dr Mark Connick is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland. His research is funded by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is a member of the IPC Classification Research and Development Centre.
Mark’s primary resea …
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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 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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School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
practitioner-led, peer-group sports interventions to support children with disabilities, helping them… fitness, self-esteem, confidence and quality of life of children with disabilities. The Sports Stars…
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- g.clutterbuck@uq.edu.au
Dr Georgina Clutterbuck is a physiotherapist who is passionate about supporting children and adults with neurological impairments 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 …
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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Senior Research Fellow
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social WorkFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesAdjunct Senior 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;- 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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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; -
Associate Dean (Research)
Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesAffiliate Professor
Queensland Brain InstituteAffiliate Professor
National Centre for Youth Substance Use ResearchFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Preservice teachers' discomfort levels toward people with disabilities… The effectiveness of a choice intervention staff training program in residential and community settings for adults with an intellectual disability… Female carers of adults with an intellectual disability are increasing in our communities as those…
Education; Psychology and Cognitive Sciences; Specialist Studies in Education; Psychology; Learning Sciences; Special Education and Disability; Educational Psychology;- Email:
- a.carroll@uq.edu.au
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- +61 7 336 56476
Annemaree Carroll is Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Educational Psychology within the School of Education at The University of Queensland. Her research activities focus the social emotional learning of children and adolescents, and the impor …
Professor Carroll's ARC Linkage-funded research has partnered with Queensland State High Schools to examine how embedding social and emotional wellbeing into school-wide policies, classroom practices, and self and social strategies of students enhances learning, behavioural, and social outcomes. A n …
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Lecturer in Speech Pathology
School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesFaculty of Health and Behavioural SciencesMatched phrases in profile:
Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF… International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)… Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Dr Nund teaches across all years of the Undergraduate… , Disability and Health (ICF) is a conceptual framework that provides a biopsychosocial perspective of…
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- r.nund@uq.edu.au
Dr Rebecca Nund is a Lecturer and Early Career Researcher in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences. She is an affiliate of the Centre for Functioning and Health Research (CFAHR). Dr Nund has published over 20 research articles and book chapters …
Dr Nund is an emerging leader in the psychosocial impacts of swallowing disorders following head and neck cancer. She has been invited to present at both national and international conferences regarding her work on understanding survivor and family members perspectives of living with swallowing diso …
