Policy, Governance and Service Systems
Policy and systems that deliver fairness and equity 
Major reforms in disability policy and significant advancements in design and discovery in rehabilitation practices and disability service delivery have emerged alongside aspirational discourses about improved system performance, equity of access, better outcomes and empowered consumers. This is a complex and challenging environment for decision-making, informed consent and fairness, and requires continued scrutiny.
This research stream brings together an alliance of social science, health science, policy, legal and human rights experts to address the critical questions arising in relation to discoveries, designs and decisions in disability and rehabilitation policies, services and practices. Its focus is to embed a robust interdisciplinary and translational research culture and to develop research capacity with the purpose of targeting system performance and outcomes.
Access & Service Transitions
The purpose of this portfolio is to examine the structural, organisational and personal dimensions and determinants of access to health, disability and rehabilitation services for populations with complex needs arising from sudden onset events and acquired disability. Read more about our TRaCE project.
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Financing & Governance of Lifetime Care
The purpose of this portfolio is to examine disability policy and system reforms through diverse conceptual frameworks, including policy analysis frameworks and socio-legal and rights frameworks to ascertain how reforms get translated through the various administrative, organisational and practice tiers, and to critically examine the administrative, practice and equity impacts.
Delivery Systems and Evaluation
The purpose of this portfolio is to undertake delivery analysis and evaluations of innovative service models in disability and rehabilitation to examine the factors that facilitate and/or hinder implementation, the contextual factors that distinguish how models work in practice from multiple end-user perspectives, and the effectiveness and/or extent to which new models achieve intended objectives.
Research Stream Leaders:
Academic Lead: Clinical Lead:
Professor Michele Foster Karleigh Kwapil
Contact them at hopkinscentre@griffith.edu.au
Featured Projects
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Published 13th February 2018
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READY Study: Readying hospitalised patients with disability who need NDIS supports for discharge
Published 7th October 2020
Making complex interfaces work for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
Published 23rd April 2019
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Meeting unmet needs following minor stroke
Published 29th November 2018
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Trajectories of Rehabilitation across Complex Environments (TRaCE)
Published 21st March 2017
ARC Adjudicating Rights for a Sustainable National Disability Insurance Scheme
Published 14th July 2020
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Published 13th May 2020
Published 7th October 2020
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The International Spinal Cord Injury (InSCI) Project
Published 30th September 2020
CHLD Network: Child Health, Learning and Disability
Published 30th September 2020
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Published 19th April 2018
Featured Publications
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Exploring Primary Contact Occupational Therapy Hand Clinics: The pull of an occupational perspective
Published 23rd February 2018
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Daily cold-water recovery may impair training load tolerance during heat-based training
Published 6th August 2019
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Reading instruction for children with ASD: Getting the story straight
Published 2nd May 2016
Longitudinal investigation of fatigue following mild stroke: impact on community integration
Published 5th August 2018
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Family members' experiences of driving disruption after acquired brain injury
Published 24th March 2017
Published 7th December 2016
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Social Media and Social Work: The Challenges of a New Ethical Space
Published 8th September 2016
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Coping Following Traumatic Brain Injury:The Need for Contextually Sensitive Assessment
Published 3rd December 2001
PROTECT: Relational safety based suicide prevention training frameworks
Published 26th December 2019
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Published 22nd December 2015
Community Music Research and Evaluation Through a Social Determinants Lens
Published 5th December 2017
A Model for Translating Knowledge Into Action
Published 8th May 2013
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Treatment Burden and Chronic Illness: Who is at Most Risk?
Published 1st December 2016
Considering Aboriginal palliative care models: The challenges for mainstream services
Published 21st August 2013
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A systematic review of interventions to increase physical activity among South Asian adults
Published 11th May 2018
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Acute glutamine supplementation does not improve 20-km self-paced cycling performance in the heat
Published 12th September 2019
Published 26th September 2016
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Development and initial validity of the in‐hand manipulation assessment
Published 17th January 2018
Randomized trial of three strategies to promote physical activity in general practice
Published 13th August 2009
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Smart-device environmental control systems: experiences of people with cervical spinal cord injuries
Published 6th September 2017
Community participation for individuals with spinal cord injury living in Queensland, Australia
Published 29th November 2016
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Published 18th February 2016
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Holistic Practice in Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Perspectives of Health Practitioners
Published 1st June 2016
Recurrent episodes of injury in children: an Australian cohort study
Published 2nd October 2017
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Published 8th January 2017
A Practical Toolkit of Strategies for Building Research Capacity in Allied Health
Published 21st July 2019
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Published 15th April 2016
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Malaysian parents' feedback on three proxy-rated assessments used in pediatric rehabilitation
Published 8th January 2018
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Metformin prescription in psychiatry
Published 31st January 2018
Perceptions of influenza and pneumococcal vaccine uptake by older persons in Australia
Published 2nd July 2019
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Published 11th December 2016
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Published 1st December 2019
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Social support and coping strategies of parents raising a child with autism spectrum disorder
Published 26th December 2016
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Improved word comprehension in Global aphasia using a modified semantic feature analysis treatment.
Published 22nd August 2016
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All-age hospitalization rates in coal seam gas areas in Queensland, Australia, 1995-2011
Published 16th January 2016
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Allied Health Professionals’ Knowledge and Use of ASD Intervention Practices
Published 15th February 2018
The Family Experience of the Crisis of Involuntary Treatment in Mental Health
Published 20th May 2018
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Implementing structured consultation with autism early intervention practitioners
Published 6th October 2016
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Stress at work: Using a process model to assist employers to understand the trajectory
Published 20th May 2015
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Published 17th December 2019
Social Work and the Natural Environment: Embedding Content Across Curricula
Published 5th April 2018
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Australia’s national disability insurance scheme: looking back to shape the future
Published 16th May 2017
Patterns of health care use of injured adults: a population-based matched cohort study
Published 3rd July 2017
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GP‐Led Deprescribing in Community‐Living Older Australians: An Exploratory Controlled Trial
Published 2nd December 2019
Published 20th August 2018
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Disrupted biographies: making sense of minor stroke after hospital discharge
Published 7th January 2020
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Hope, coping and psychosocial adjustment after spinal cord injury
Published 21st September 2017
Higher mortality risk among injured individuals in a population-based matched cohort study
Published 2nd February 2017
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Individuals' explanations for their persistent or recurrent low back pain: a cross-sectional survey
Published 17th November 2017
Recommendations from Two Citizens’ Juries on the Surgical Management of Obesity
Published 7th January 2018
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Exploring the health, service and social needs of minor stroke patients.
Published 5th August 2018
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Published 5th September 2019
Bicycling and tricycling road race performance in international UCI events between 2011 and 2019
Published 27th March 2020
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The lived experience of supporting people with mild stroke
Published 2nd July 2019
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Ethical Dilemmas Experienced by Australian Rehabilitation Counsellors
Published 15th May 2018
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Published 16th September 2017
Measuring access to primary healthcare services after stroke: A spatial analytic approach
Published 28th May 2019
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Exploring changing needs following minor stroke
Published 30th September 2019
Published 15th August 2016
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Disability management and organizational culture in Australia and Canada
Published 7th August 2017
Traumatic brain injury amongst indigenous people: a systematic review
Published 19th September 2017
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Longitudinal Study of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Preschool Children With Cerebral Palsy
Published 18th December 2015
Predictors of preventable hospitalization in chronic disease: Priorities for change
Published 26th May 2010
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The language we use – the effect of writing mental health care plans in the first person
Published 14th May 2018
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales: II Profile of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published 5th January 2016
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Child injury: does home matter?
Published 15th February 2016
Nominal group technique for individuals with cognitive disability: a systematic review.
Published 13th May 2018
Canadian Employee Perspectives on Disability Management
Published 18th September 2017
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Spirituality in the Context of Nonverbal Autism: A Research Process – Analysis and Findings
Published 30th October 2019
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Predictors of long‐term distress in female partners of men diagnosed with prostate cancer
Published 21st December 2017
Published 6th November 2018
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General practice visits by people with traumatic spinal cord injury: A Queensland longitudinal study
Published 8th August 2013
An experiential learning theory of high level wellness: Australian salutogenic research
Published 12th February 2019
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Published 22nd November 2018
The Chemo Club: Insights on facilitating participation in an exercise club for cancer patients
Published 21st August 2012
Domestic Violence and Child Protection: Partnerships and Collaboration.
Published 20th May 2009
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How Can Arts Participation Promote Indigenous Social Determinants of Health?
Published 5th December 2017
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USING THE AHP TO ESTABLISH INCLUSIVE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES FOR INDUSTRY
Published 15th July 2018
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Realist evaluation of allied health management in Queensland: what works, in which contexts and why
Published 30th August 2018
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Living with Dysphagia in the Community: Caregivers “do whatever it takes.”
Published 24th April 2020
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Moving forward on the journey: Spirituality and family resilience after spinal cord injury
Published 19th July 2018
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Published 15th January 2016
Published 15th September 2011
Burden of treatment for chronic illness: a concept analysis and review of the literature
Published 21st August 2013
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Long-term consequences of flooding: A case study of the 2011 Queensland floods
Published 7th November 2018
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The effect of childhood sexual abuse on psychosexual functioning during adulthood
Published 26th May 2011
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Published 12th February 2018
Living with dementia and adjusting to life without driving
Published 22nd October 2018
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The Daily Living Self-Efficacy Scale: A New Measure for Assessing Self-Efficacy in Stroke Survivors
Published 21st August 2013
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Published 19th January 2017
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How do health professionals work in a recovery-oriented way?
Published 19th April 2018
How health care systems let our patients down: a systematic review into suicide deaths
Published 2nd June 2020
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The Emergent Literacy Skills of Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published 19th November 2016
Published 16th October 2018
Published 28th February 2017
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Utilisation of evidence-based practices by ASD early intervention service providers.
Published 18th April 2016
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How does care coordination provided by registered nurses
Published 21st August 2013
Allied health research positions: a qualitative evaluation of their impact
Published 6th February 2017
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Educating mental health staff in sensory approaches using an e-learning package: a 3-month follow-up
Published 10th August 2018
Telehealth and autism: A systematic search and review of the literature
Published 30th April 2018
Verbal learning and memory following stroke. Brain injury
Published 15th July 2014
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Published 5th November 2019
Relational processing following stroke. Brain and cognition
Published 5th June 2013
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Meeting unmet needs following minor stroke: the SUN randomised controlled trial protocol
Published 27th November 2019
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'We don't have anyone with dementia here': A case for better intersectoral collaboration
Published 26th May 2012
Published 11th September 2017
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An integrated model of psychosocial adjustment following acquired disability
Published 1st July 1998
Published 15th December 2017
Promoting health in early childhood environments: A health-promotion approach
Published 21st August 2013
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Implementing new models of integrated mental health care: what impacts effective performance?
Published 19th April 2018
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Nominal group technique for individuals with cognitive disability: a systematic review
Published 15th May 2017
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Cultural competence in healthcare in the community: A concept analysis
Published 7th March 2018
Sexual Violence Offender: Prevention and Intervention Approaches
Published 20th May 2015
Research capacity building frameworks for allied health professionals – a systematic review
Published 15th September 2018
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The Process of Patient Engagement in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Model-Centric Systematic Review
Published 13th November 2018
Longitudinal investigation of fatigue following mild stroke: impact on community integration
Published 5th August 2018
Nurses' Perspectives of Person-Centered Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation in a Digital Hospital
Published 18th January 2019
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Partnerships in collaborative care
Published 2nd January 2017
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Published 2nd December 2018
Engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the 'Proper Way'
Published 3rd July 2017
Featured People
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Professor and Deputy Director
Clinical Psychologist & Neuropsychologist