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Breaking down Barriers: Co-designed recommendations to reduce stakeholder identified NDIS access barriers for people with psychosocial disability
Published 2022-09-16The Issue The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) commenced in 2016 and is designed to support people with all types of disability including those living with psychosocial disability. However, many thousands of ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Capacity Building for Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia
Published 2015-06-01This Technical Report details the Capacity Building component of the Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia project. This project was funded by the Australian Government ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
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 -
Crippling Christian Theology as I Power My Wheelchair Out the Door
Published 2020This article draws on the author’s experience of spinal cord injury to reflect on theological method and central elements of Christian theology. It uses disability theory to unmask the ablest ideology that too often frames ...Open AccessArticle -
Cross Sector Service Coordination for People with High and Complex Needs: Harnessing Existing Evidence and Knowledge
Published 2014-08-01People with high and complex needs will generally need an array of supports to enable social and economic participation as envisaged by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As participants, these people will ...Open AccessOther -
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 -
Disability and the Complexity of Choice in the Ethics of Abortion and Voluntary Euthanasia
Published 2018In the polarized debates about abortion and voluntary euthanasia, disability advocates, who normally align with left-wing social forces, have tended to side with conservative and religious voices in expressing concerns ...Open AccessArticle -
Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework: Baseline indicator data for Australians aged 18-64 years
Published 2022-05-02This report presents the first national data using the Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework and Indicators developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Disability ...Open AccessReport, Research -
The Disability Inclusive Disaster Resilience (DiDR) Tool: Development and Field Testing
Published 2015-06-01This is the third Technical Report in a three part series for the two year DFAT Australian Aid funded project (2013-2015), Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia. This report ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Disability Transitions Across the Life Course: Preliminary Data from Australia
Published 2013-02-01The aim of this working paper is to present preliminary analyses of longitudinal data from Australia that addresses various aspects of the dynamic nature of disability over time. Disability research is dominated by ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Disability Wellbeing Index (DWI): Analysis of Qualitative Components with Adult and Young People with Disability
Published 2025-07-28The Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP), University of Sydney, was contracted to contribute to a three-year research project, 2022-2024, funded by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and lead by ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Eligibility, the ICF and the UN Convention: Australian perspectives
Published 2010-04-01The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Australia, acts as a philosophical and moral statement and framework guiding integrated and strategic policy across the nation. Broad policy agreement has ...Open AccessArticle -
Estimated Prevalence and Living Circumstances of Parents with Intellectual Disability In Australia from Selected National Surveys
Published 2014-07-01Analysis of SDAC 2009 data identified an estimated 0.41% of Australian parents had intellectual disability. This equates to an estimated 17,000 parents with intellectual disability residing in private dwellings in Australia. ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Examining employment barriers and enablers for people with psychosocial disability – A scoping review
Published 2023-10-10This report details the findings of our study about the employment of people with psychosocial disability. This research was commissioned by Candella and conducted by two researchers from the Centre for Disability Research ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Final Report on the Alternative Formats and Support Options for the Disability Wellbeing Index (DWI): Promoting Accessibility, Safety, and Self Reporting for Survey Respondents
Published 2025-07-28The Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP), University of Sydney, was contracted to contribute to a three-year research project, 2022-2024, funded by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and lead by ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Happiness and Mental Illness: Virtue ethics in Dialogue with Psychology
Published 2018This interdisciplinary article explores the intersection between the virtue ethics tradition and psychological therapies exploring the meaning of happiness for people living with a disabling mental illness. The logic of ...Open AccessArticle -
In Search of an Integrative Measure of Functioning
Published 2015-05-01International trends towards people-centred, integrative care and support require any measurement of functioning and disability to meet multiple aims. The information requirements of two major Australian programs for ...Open AccessArticle -
The incurable self: Negotiating social bonds and dis/connection with metastatic breast cancer
Published 2023As the culture of silence that once surrounded cancer has gradually given way to greater public awareness, normative visions of what cancer survivorship should entail have proliferated. These visions emphasise positivity ...Open AccessArticle -
Left Behind 2011: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Disabilities, 2001-2009
Published 2011-06-01Adolescents and young adults with disabilities are at heightened risk of social exclusion. Exclusion leads to poor outcomes in adulthood which in turn affects individuals’ health and wellbeing and that of their families ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Left Behind 2013: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Self Reported Long Term Health Conditions, Impairments or Disabilities 2001-2011
Published 2013-02-01This report maps the extent of social inclusion or exclusion of young disabled Australians, aged between 15 and 29, over the years 2001 to 2011. It found that although the social inclusion of young disabled Australians ...Open AccessReport, Technical