Professor Gerry Redmond

Over the past 20 years, Gerry’s research has focused on marginalisation as experienced by young people in Australia and other countries – at school, with their peers, and in the community. He’s particularly interested in amplifying young people’s voices through his research and supporting them to talk about their lived experience. We hear very little from young people themselves about how their experiences impact the opportunities available to them, and what they do to protect themselves and their families from the effects of poverty and marginalisation.

Gerry’s research does not offer ‘easy fixes’ to these problems of marginalisation. There are no simple remedial interventions. The purpose of his research is to focus the attention of people with power - advocates, policymakers and practitioners in health, education, community services and local government - on what young people themselves see as the challenges in their lives, and supports that can help them overcome these challenges.

Gerry is a sociologist and social policy analyst. Before coming to Flinders in 2012, he worked at the University of Cambridge (UK), UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (Italy) and the University of NSW. He has won over $5 million in funding, and has been Chief Investigator on five Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, most recently the Wellbeing in Adolescence project. He has authored 50 journal articles, and has a Google Scholar H-index of 26. He has advised the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on child, youth, gender and family statistics. He is currently a member of the ARC College of Experts (2020-2022). Most importantly, he advocates for amplifying the voices of young people who are the least heard but who have the most to gain from policymakers and others in power hearing them.
 

Professor Sally Robinson

Sally leads research and academic practice in Disability and Community Inclusion.

Sally's research with children, young people and adults with disability is about what helps them feel safe, well and happy at difficult times in their lives. Most of her work is done in teams that include people with disability as researchers as well as asking them for their views. She also works with governments and organisations about how to listen to the things that matter to disabled people.  
 

Professor Joanne Arciuli

Joanne studied at Macquarie University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at University College London. She spent 12 years at The University of Sydney and, during that time, was promoted from lecturer through to full professor. In 2020, she moved to Flinders University to take up the role of Dean of Research in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Her interdisciplinary research program on child development and disability has been funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) since 2007 and she enjoys collaborating with a diverse group of colleagues and organisations from around Australia as well as the UK, Norway, Singapore, US, Italy, Israel, The Netherlands, and China.

She has served on several national and international Boards (Luke Priddis Foundation, Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, and the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia), and served as an Associate Editor on two journals and on the Editorial Boards of an additional 3 journals. She co-edited a book on Communication in Autism and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Developmental Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Developmental Psychology, Cognition, Autism, Child Development, Journal of Educational Psychology, Hearing Research, Exceptional Children, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Research in Developmental Disabilities, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
 

Professor Eric Emerson

Eric Emerson is globally renowned in the field of disability research and has been Chief Investigator Partner Investigator of multiple projects in the UK, where he is Emeritus Professor of Disability and Health Research, Lancaster University, and in Australia, where he is Professor of Disability Population Health at the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney. Eric has authored over 280 publications (books, book chapters and journal articles) and supervised 20 PhD students to completion.

Dr Sally Chance

Sally is a qualitative researcher. She is an experienced disability arts ally and was the founding artistic director of Adelaide-based Restless Dance Theatre.

Dr Ellen Fraser Barbour

Ellen works for Purple Orange as a Research & Policy Lead. She is a researcher and recently completed her PhD at Flinders University in Disability & Community Inclusion.