Welcome
Research in Disability and Community Inclusion (RDCI) is a website to share the research of academic staff working in Disability and Community Inclusion at Flinders University.
Working in partnership with people with disability and a wide range of government, community services, and advocacy organisations, our research aims to:
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Promote human rights
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Privilege the experiences and priorities of people with disability
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Develop understanding about how we can jointly promote social inclusion and challenge marginalisation of people with disability
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Generate knowledge useful for policy and practice
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Interested in studying with us?
We offer a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate study programs. You can find out more about these here.
Partners
Our research is conducted with and for a wide range of partners across government and non-government sectors and in community organisations. We work closely with people with disability and their organisations in our research.
These include:
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Association of Frontotemporal Degeneration (USA)
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Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety
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Australian Association of Gerontology
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Australian Research Council
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Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation
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Charles Perkins Centre Active Ageing Research Node, University of Sydney
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Commonwealth Department of Health
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Department of Social Services
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National Alliance of Capacity Building Organisations
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National Disability Research Partnership
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National Health and Medical Research Council
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NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
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NSW Council for Intellectual Disability
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Our Voice SA
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Purple Orange
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Queensland Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
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Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
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SA Council for Intellectual Disability
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UNSW Social Policy Research Centre
Researchers in Disability and Community Inclusion are members of the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University.
