Policy and Practice Advice

MDI can help facilitate the interaction between research and implementation to identify the aims, stakeholders, main messages, and strategies to best deliver policy and practice innovation and improvements for people with disability, their families and carers.

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Applied disability research aims to influence practice yet research results often do not reach, or take a long time to filter through to, those who use and those who deliver services.

MDI can help you come up with a knowledge translation framework and plan to  assist with the uptake of research evidence in the disability sector.

Contact Tessa de Vries at Tessa.devries@unimelb.edu.au for an initial conversation or to schedule an appointment with one of MDI's policy experts.

Professor Bruce Bonyhady, AM is a disability reformer, economist, one of the key architects of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and was the inaugural Chair of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) from 2013 to 2016.

Dr Sue Olney is a Research Fellow in Public Policy at the Melbourne Disability Institute at the University of Melbourne, a Visiting Fellow in the Public Service Research Group in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra, and an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Melbourne School of Government at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines market-based reform of public services with particular focus on welfare-to-work and disability services.