Centre for Disability Research and Policy: Recent submissions
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Psychosocial Navigator role - key attributes
Published 2025The 2023 NDIS Review recommended the introduction of a specialist ‘Navigator’ role with expertise in psychosocial disability to assist people with disability in a complex support system. Navigators are important for ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Beyond the NDIS: Unmet needs, Foundational Supports and system reform for psychosocial disability
Published 2025-10-09We conducted a survey of 1625 people in Australia, asking them about their views on recent and proposed reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and broader psychosocial supports. In this report we have ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship Project newsletter - Fixing the NDIS for People with Psychosocial Disability
Published 2025-10-09The five-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Laureate Fellowship project, led by Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry, continues to make strong progress toward improving outcomes for people with psychosocial disability ...Open AccessNewsletter -
The dark side of prayer for healing: Toward a theology of well-being
Published 2014This paper explores the relationship between disability and pentecostal theologies and practices of healing. First, it draws on the testimony of people with a disability, describing the challenge of being the “elephant in ...Open AccessArticle -
Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life
Published 2018Crippled Grace combines disability studies, Christian theology, philosophy, and psychology to explore what constitutes happiness and how it is achieved. The virtue tradition construes happiness as whole-of-life flourishing ...Book