Associate ProfessorShane Clifton

Director, Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP)

Faculty of Medicine and Health

  • Director, Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP)
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

Research projects & supervision summary

  • Intellectual disability leadership and governance evaluation (exploring the appointment of people to governance boards), (2024-2026), Philanthropic funding
  • Mapping NDIS Activities to the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF), (2025-2026), National Disability Insurance Agency
  • How does disability leadership build on and differ from lived experience and lived expertise and what does lived expertise contribute to evidence-based policy? (2024-2025), FMH start-up grant
  • Ageing with spinal cord injury, PhD student, Emma Tan, ongoing
  • Exploring a novel well-being intervention for people with spinal cord injury, PhD student, Bronwyn Simpson, ongoing
  • Lived experiences of trauma for LGBTQIA+ people within traditional religious settings, PhD (2021), Joel Hollier

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ageing with Spinal Cord Injury: Australian consumer carer and health professional perspectives
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Developing Pastoral Ministry Practices for LGBTQA+ Individuals in Traditional Evangelical Churches
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    From Engagement to Operations: An Activity Systems Analysis of AFN Coordination and Boundary Work in Disability-Inclusive Emergency Preparedness (NSW)
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    From theory to practice example: How programs can more intentionally support living well with spinal cord injury
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Stigma Employment and Disability in Indonesia