Seed Funding Projects 2018-2019
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Smoking Behaviours among People with Intellectual Disability
A programmatic approach to understanding the smoking behaviours of people with intellectual disability and potential interventions for reducing smoking rates.
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Community Disability Inclusion in India
The project, occurring over four phases, will produce, trial and evaluate a best-practice Community Disability Inclusion (CDI) Diploma course for CDI workers in India.
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Accessing the Home
Collecting, analyzing and creating a centralized record of the Home Renovation scheme reports - which represent a comprehensive record of Victoria's housing stock for people with a disability or age-related restrictions.
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Inclusive City of Melbourne
The City of Melbourne and University of Melbourne are teaming up to help make Melbourne a ‘city for people’ – one that is accessible and inclusive for all.
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A mixed methods evaluation of a wellbeing service for parents of children with complex neurodevelopmental conditions
This project is to evaluate a Parent Wellbeing Service, a current pilot program within the Department of Neurodevelopment and Disability, Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH).
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The Impact of Low Vision Assistive Technology on Mobility in People with Vision Impairment
This project develops methods for assessing assistive devices for people with low vision.
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Everyone’s Moomba
This project is designed to inform the City of Melbourne on how to strengthen and future proof the festival for people with a disability.
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Trial and validation of the ASQ-TRAK Extended – a developmental outcome measure for Australian Aboriginal children
This project is supporting the development of the ASQ-TRAK Extended; the validation of the ASQ-TRAK Extended; and the examination of the feasibility and the cost of implementing the ASQ-TRAK Extended.
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Exploring the interface of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and Disability Employment Services (DES) and the influence on employment outcomes for Australians with disabilities
This project seeks to understand stakeholder perspectives and concerns on the functioning and positioning of NDIS/DES interface within the broader education, training and employment sector.
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Myth busting and number crunching: the disability pay gap
This project will conduct an in-depth analysis of the “disability pay gap” – which will inform an online interactive tool to bridge the gap between evidence and understanding.
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Improving paediatric advance planning for children with severe neurodisability
This study aims to understand how paediatricians conceptualise ACP when caring for children with life-limiting conditions (LLC) who are unable to participate in decision-making for his/herself.
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Using total population data to produce policy-relevant evidence to increase access to services for Aboriginal children with intellectual disability / autism spectrum disorder in Western Australia
This project will use total population data from Western Australia to understand why Aboriginal children with developmental disability are less likely to receive disability services prior to school than non-Aboriginal children.
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Pathways for responding to conflict and high risk behaviours in families: A feasibility study based on families living with a child/young person with autism
This study seeks to better understand the intersections between increased stress, familial conflict, high risk behaviours, and absence of social support for families living with a child/young person with ASD.
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Digitising Social Care: An Alternative Vision for Australia’s Digital Future of Care
This project aims to describe the current information technology readiness of the social care sector, including the current state of information continuity between this sector and the health system.
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Violence against people with disabilities: maximising the use of data to inform the Royal Commission
This project will inform the upcoming Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against people with disability by providing the most up-to-date population-based estimates on the prevalence of violence among people with disability in Australia.
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Cultivating wellbeing by empowering families: Establishing evidence for and impact of the Now and Next Program
This project will launch an inter-disciplinary, collaborative longitudinal impact study, with the intention of informing proactive policies and approaches to early childhood disability care.
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From Shelter to Security: An Exploration of Crisis Accommodation
This research project is to evaluate the economic and social impacts of this housing pilot program and examine possibilities for upscaling the model.
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National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Legal Clinic
This project established the NDIS Legal Clinic at Melbourne Law School, which is the first of its kind in Australia.
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Towards a better understanding of how to reduce social stigma among medical students: A qualitative study
The project aims to address the prejudicial and stigmatising views of healthcare professionals regarding persons with mental health conditions.
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Dental Health for People with Intellectual Disability
This project aims to improve the oral health of people with intellectual disability and increase the volume of people with intellectual disability being treated in community and private dental practice settings.
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DigiTech4All: Optimising inclusive pedagogies for teaching the Digital Technologies curriculum
This project will investigate effective teaching strategies so that students with disabilities and additional needs are included in Digital Technologies lessons alongside their peers.
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African Australians with disability and the NDIS: Exploring the support and service needs of African Australians with disability
This project explores the experiences of African Australians with disability seeking access to the NDIS.
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This is me: Exploring how inclusive music workshops can support mental health and quality of life in autistic children and young adults
This project examines and evaluates the benefits of group music making on the mental health and quality of life of participants from three different age groups of upper primary school aged children.
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Linking therapy and community participation through cycling (CycLink) for children with disabilities: a feasibility study
This study investigates the feasibility of a cycling program for children with disabilities that is co-delivered by physiotherapists and community sport and recreational professionals with the goal of improving community participation in cycling.
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The prevalence and causes of hearing loss in the Kandal Province of Cambodia using the Rapid Assessment of Hearing Loss (RAHL)
This project aims to provide evidence on the prevalence and causes of hearing loss in one province of Cambodia for people aged 50 and over.