Positive Environments and Communities
Spaces and places where people are at their best 
This Stream is focused on understanding complex interactions between service users; personal, wellbeing and their physical, social-political and economic environments.
Supported by capability specifications that allow us to deliver against a stream’s purpose:
- Enriched environments brings an evidence-based understanding of how environments can promote optimum functioning after injury or illness in cognitive, motor, sensory and how social capacity will provide opportunities for enriched experiences from hospital to home. Key project work developed to assist transition back to home and community. Read more about, Build, Buy, Modify project and Devices, technology and aids to live independently
- Accessible housing and environments looks at living well with a focus on the impact influence of different residential environments on a person’s lifelong adjustment. Read more about our built environment, greenspace and housing modification projects.
- Community participation focuses on physical access to services and spaces in the community, with the goal to develop more responsive services and systems. Looking at optimising environmental factors which affect quality of life and outcomes, this research targets mobility, transport, proximity to access, integrated services, virtual reality technologies, vocational rehabilitation, education, greenspace, and social family and service networks.
Research Stream Leader
Academic Lead:
Professor Heidi Zeeman
Featured Projects
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BEEHIVE Neurorehabilitation Lab
Published 21st August 2019
Published 15th January 2018
Urban Green Space and Wellbeing
Published 11th July 2017
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Accessible Transport Network- Disability, Mobility and Dignity
Published 23rd September 2020
Nutrition Prescription: Healing Pressure Injuries in Spinal Cord Injury
Published 30th September 2020
Broad project area - mapping networks of service provision in rural communities
Published 31st July 2018
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Developing the Guddi for Young People Methodology
Published 1st March 2019
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What are clinician perspectives of the Logan Hospital Rehabilitation Unit design?
Published 29th June 2018
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Sleep among patients with brain injury in hospital: A systematic review
Published 1st May 2018
The significance of resilience on the longer-term wellbeing of family
Published 25th June 2018
AT HOME ASSIST: A decision support tool for professionals engaging in inclusive housing development
Published 11th July 2017
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Published 20th November 2020
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Developing a neurocognitive design environmental assessment model (review and frramework)
Published 4th July 2016
AI- Enabled Spatial Attention Assessment and Training System
Published 7th October 2020
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CHLD Network: Child Health, Learning and Disability
Published 30th September 2020
Farming 4 Care: Using nature to cultivate resilience in young people
Published 11th July 2017
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The NOVELL Redesign project: Neuroscience Optimised Virtual Environment Living Lab
Published 30th September 2020
Research Support for Review of Services to Young People with OOHC
Published 30th June 2016
Outcomes in long duration spinal cord injury: ten year follow up
Published 30th April 2018
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The impact of natural and built environments on brain activity: a systematic review
Published 3rd July 2017
Published 25th July 2019
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Home Modification Design and Innovation
Published 30th September 2020
The Disability Accommodation Landscape in Queensland
Published 20th November 2020
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The provision of Livable Housing design: The costs and benefits to Australian society
Published 29th January 2018
Featured Publications
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Community-based child health nurses: An exploration of current practice
Published 26th May 2011
Consumer and community co‐development in knowledge creation
Published 23rd August 2019
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Promoting health in early childhood environments: A health-promotion approach
Published 21st August 2013
Preventing abuse in accommodation services: From procedural response to protective cultures
Published 26th May 2011
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International employee perspectives on disability management
Published 7th February 2017
Published 6th September 2019
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Improving policy and practice responses for men sexually abused in childhood
Published 26th May 2012
Immediate and Long-Term Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for People With Disabilities
Published 15th October 2020
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Published 11th August 2020
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Factors associated with graduated return to work following injury in a road traffic crash
Published 24th September 2018
Is it feasible to measure lifespace with smartphone geolocation data after mild stroke?
Published 5th November 2018
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Prevalence of PTSD, Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Correctional Officers: A Systematic Review
Published 26th July 2019
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Building compassion literacy: Enabling care in primary health care nursing
Published 1st February 2017
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Sexual Violence Offender: Prevention and Intervention Approaches
Published 20th May 2015
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Systematic literature review of psychological interventions for first responders
Published 4th May 2020
Mental Disorders in Firefighters Following Large-Scale Disaster
Published 27th May 2020
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Self-Compassion in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Analysis
Published 12th July 2020
Effects of Probiotics on Patients with Hypertension: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Published 21st March 2020
"I don't like seeing 'land sold' signs!": Children's Views about their community
Published 13th August 2014
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Beyond crisis care in brain injury rehabilitation in Australia: A conversation worth having
Published 26th May 2011
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A systematic review of the public's knowledge and beliefs about antibiotic resistance
Published 12th October 2015
Systematic reviews, scholarly discussion and opportunities
Published 5th March 2020
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Repositioning for pressure injury prevention in adults
Published 2nd June 2020
Recurrent episodes of injury in children: an Australian cohort study
Published 1st August 2016
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Ambulance personnel: Systematic review of mental health symptoms.
Published 2nd March 2020
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Client perspectives on living with dysphagia in the community
Published 11th June 2020
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Conducting Research with People with Nonverbal Autism: An Inclusive Methodological Approach
Published 10th August 2020
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Current practice trends of oedema management in the hands of people with tetraplegia in Australia
Published 7th August 2019
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Art processes: a research tool for acquired brain injury and residential design
Published 11th May 2017
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Structural and lithological variation around Serpentine Diggings, Central Otago, New Zealand
Published 20th September 2017
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Depression and anxiety in policework: a systematic review
Published 25th September 2019
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Exercise Intolerance in Heart Failure: Central Role for the Pulmonary System
Published 15th July 2019
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Choosing the harder road: Naming the challenges for families in person-centred planning
Published 18th July 2018
Rebuilding community: Considerations for policy makers in the wake of the 2011 Queensland floods
Published 26th May 2011
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Preschool predictors of reading ability in the first year of schooling in children with ASD
Published 26th August 2018
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Violence Against Children in Afghanistan: Community Perspectives
Published 8th March 2018
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“She’ll be right, mate!”: do Australians take their health for granted?.
Published 25th August 2020
The new Millennium Development Goals and Inclusive Development
Published 21st August 2012
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Published 21st August 2013
Teaching traditional indoor school lessons in nature: The effects on student learning and behaviour
Published 23rd October 2020
Housing for People with an Acquired Brain or Spinal Injury: Mapping the Australian Funding Landscape
Published 7th August 2019
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Missing discourses: Concepts of joy and happiness in disability
Published 20th May 2009
The Chemo Club: Insights on facilitating participation in an exercise club for cancer patients
Published 21st August 2012
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Published 21st August 2012
Exploring the concept of moral distress with community-based researchers: An Australian study
Published 26th May 2011
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Published 19th September 2016
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Practice-based chronic condition care coordination: challenges and opportunities
Published 26th May 2011
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Not quite city and not quite rural: Active lifestyle beliefs in peri‐urban Australians
Published 7th February 2019
Violence against children in Afghanistan: Concerns and opportunities for positive change
Published 31st October 2017
Virtuous or vicious?: Agency and representation in biotechnology's virtuous cycle
Published 26th May 2009