Seed Funding Projects 2021

Finding better outcomes for children and caregivers through improved care pathways for those with complex medical needs

This project aims to improve service delivery to and the tertiary care hospital experiences of children with medically complex cerebral palsy and their caregivers.

Opening Eyes to the Experience of Vision Loss

This project aims to identify the support needs of people with early-stage vision loss.

Designing Learning Spaces for Diversity, Inclusion and Participation – Pilot Project

The objective of a planned multi-year research program is to ensure that students with disability—and indeed all students—are included and supported by educational facilities in both mainstream and dedicated special school settings.

Experts of Experience: The Voice of the Client in Service Governance and Innovation in the NDIS. Step One: Participant Engagement Process

This project focuses on project design, how best to recruit participants, how to pay them for their time, how to balance the recruitment of different cohorts in the sector, and how to recruit researchers with life experience of disability to work in the project once it is fully funded.

Health Justice Partnerships in inner city Melbourne: A lived experience evaluation by women experiencing psychosocial disability, domestic violence and legal problems during the COVID-19 pandemic

This project will address this research gap by focusing on Victorian women experiencing these issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Attitudes of Australian autistic communities to Applied Behaviour Analysis, Positive Behaviour Support and social skills interventions

This project seeks to investigate the attitudes of children and young adults with lived experiences of autism towards three frameworks for autism intervention that are popular within Australian schools.

Exploring approaches to build the self-advocacy capabilities of young job seekers with cognitive disabilities to engage in the labour market

This project will to build on the Youth Employment Study (YES) that aims to understand what helps young people find and maintain work.

Work-life in Wodonga: Co-design workshops for housing and work opportunities with people with disabilities in regional Victoria

This project will investigate relationships between inclusive and diverse medium-density housing and accessible neighbourhood infrastructure, highlighting what is necessary to enable, promote, and sustain work-life opportunities for people with disability in Wodonga.