Projects

SEED PROJECT: Co-producing resources for clinicians and people with Spinal Cord Injuries in Queensland: Enhancing patient decision-making and access to information.

How does waiting for access to The Metro South Pain Rehabilitation Centre affect patients’ use of high risk monitored medicines?

Australian Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Study (AUS-mTBI)

Developing a sustainable approach to research capacity building for the Queensland Branch, Australasian Faculty Rehabilitation Medicine (AFRM)

SEED PROJECT: Development of the ROBIN (Returning hOme after Brain INjury) smart device application

SEED PROJECT: Design Café – Innovation Through Lived Experience

SEED PROJECT: If, How and Why Patients Modify and Personalise Their Rooms in Inpatient Neurorehabilitation Environments

SEED PROJECT: Navigating rail transport after acquired brain injury

SEED PROJECT: Complications of post-flap surgery in people with spinal cord injury.

SEED PROJECT: Sleep disturbances following spinal cord injury: Understanding help-seeking behaviour and co-designing a sleep management resource

Scoping the technology landscape of Day Hospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services

Trajectories of Rehabilitation across Complex Environment (TRaCE) 3.0

SEED PROJECT - EPIC-Tech - Engineering and Physiotherapy Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Technology

Driving disruption interventions for acquired brain injuries in the community-based rehabilitation setting

SEED PROJECT - Supporting Friendships and Social Connections for People with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI): Real Strategies for Sustainable Change.

SEED PROJECT: Can we enhance the home modification process and outcomes using 3D visualisations of activities of daily living (ADLs)?

SEED PROJECT - What effect does virtual reality-based nature exposure have on anxiety and depression in people with brain injury in a hospital rehabilitation ward?

Investigating the most effective method to communicate data for clinical decision making in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

SEED PROJECT - Sustained employment following acquired brain or spinal cord injury: Case studies involving employees, employers, and service providers.

PhD Scholarship Success - welcoming Hannah Gawne as PhD candidate

SEED PROJECT - Implementing principles of health literacy into rehabilitation practice using a change champion/co-design approach: A pilot and feasibility evaluation

Complex Rehabilitation in Systems under Immense Stress (CRISIS): Secondary complications and access to services during system disruption for people with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

The Transition2sub-acute Project (T2SA)

The Dignity Project: Disability-led innovation to improve the patient journey

Home to Hospital

Understanding what self-advocacy means after brain injury: Having a say in your care and rehabilitation

Building the Research Capacity of Rehabilitation Clinicians

Growing Assistive Technology Solutions in Queensland: A collaboration with the National Injury Insurance Agency Queensland (NIISQ Agency).

Dimensional Assessment Modelling for Neglect Detection (DIAMOND): A Novel Application for Brain Injury

The influence of time-of-day on physiological and perceptual responses to exercise in people with spinal cord injury living in the community

Adapting TBI Express communication partner training for leaders of a community peer support group for adults with acquired brain injury (ABI): is it feasible, acceptable and potentially effective?

Assessing cognitive-communication skills in the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) return to work population

Getting research closer to practice: Using a research capacity building framework to develop and evaluate a clinician-researcher position in occupational therapy

A review of the processes of care for the management of people with a spinal cord injury on the orthopaedics wards at the Princess Alexandra Hospital

Evaluating the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary hypertonicity service to inform the development of a state-wide service model for management of hypertonicity post brain injury

Evaluating the Translation of the Adapted Physical Activity Program into the Acquired Brain Injury Translational Rehabilitation Service: Application of the RE-AIM Framework

Sustainable Cognitive-Enriching Specialised Disability Accommodation

Partnering with clinicians to illuminate the contribution of Rehabilitation Nursing to Multidisciplinary Care Teams

Advanced Queensland Telehealth Project

BIONICS QUEENSLAND CHALLENGE: Hearoes and the Hopkins Centre Unite to Win “Early Innovation Award”

Musculoskeletal Health and Persistent Pain

Innovative Accommodation for individuals with ABI

The Disability Accommodation Landscape in Queensland

Valuing Home Modifications

Accelerating technology uptake during a pandemic: enabling and extending delivery of rehabilitation

AI- Enabled Spatial Attention Assessment and Training System

Describing the use of Technology in Rehabilitation in a Queensland Tertiary Hospital and Healthcare Setting

READY Study: Readying hospitalised patients with disability who need NDIS supports for discharge

The GUARDian Research Project

The impact of the introduction of the HabITec Lab at the Princess Alexandra Hospital

CHLD Network: Child Health, Learning and Disability

Communication Partner Training Project

First Australian Holistic Health: Development of a Multi-Dimensional Model of Suicidal Ideation and Suicide-Related Behaviours

Home Modification Design and Innovation

Nutrition Prescription: Healing Pressure Injuries in Spinal Cord Injury

The International Spinal Cord Injury (InSCI) Community Survey Project and Australian arm (Aus-InSCI)

The NOVELL Redesign project: Neuroscience Optimised Virtual Environment Living Lab

Accessible Transport Network- Disability, Mobility and Dignity

Designing the social environment for people with ABI in the community using communication partner training: A blueprint for social connection

ARC Adjudicating Rights for a Sustainable National Disability Insurance Scheme

Community access and participation following acquired brain injury

Enabled VIP

Travel Experiences, Motivations, Patterns, and Attitudes from people with neurological injury and conditions (TEMPA-neuro)

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) Clinical Trial

Diabetic study

The UPLIFT program

Understanding neuropathic pain following breast cancer treatment

Virtual reality study to combat persistent pain

Brain plasticity in spinal cord injury pain

Musculoskeletal Health and Persistent Pain Research Lab

Design and feasibility testing of a Graded Motor Imagery application to manage neuropathic pain in people with spinal cord injury

Exploring the experience of fatigue for people with a traumatic brain injury and their carers to inform evidence-based clinical management

ROAMM: Restoring Occupations And coMMunity participation

What are the factors that determine the optimal timing of physical therapy during acute inpatient rehabilitation after spinal cord injury?

Clinical Guides: Supporting children on the Autism Spectrum with minimal verbal language

BEEHIVE Neurorehabilitation Lab

The Dignity Project

Preventing adversarial compensation processes: A qualitative study on design and operational features contributing to conflict, dispute and collaboration barriers in the Queensland CTP system

Making complex interfaces work for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

HCQ Consumer Engagement Evaluation

Nerang Alliance

Clinicians’ views on the facilitators and barriers that influence the provision of persistent pain management to refugees attending the Persistent Pain Clinic at PAH.

Developing the Guddi for Young People Methodology

Evaluating the translation of the adapted physical activity program into the TRS: Application of the REAIM framework

Establishing community characteristics contributing to the psychosocial health of refugee and asylum seeking populations with a disability

Is increased community participation associated with favourable mental health outcomes among people with spinal cord injury?

Supporting ethical inclusion of people with acquired disability in research: consumer informed approaches

Virtual reality as a novel therapeutic tool in tertiary persistent pain clinics: A patient perspective

Meeting unmet needs following minor stroke 

HabITec: The sociotechnical space

Back2Work Project

Evaluating the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary hypertonicity service to inform the development of a state-wide service model for management of hypertonicity post brain injury

Broad project area - mapping networks of service provision in rural communities

Compassion in rehabilitation nursing: a study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences of compassion in caring in the inpatient rehabilitation setting

Complex adjustment to physical injury in rehabilitation: Translating knowledge of resource, support and learning needs of staff into best practice training and clinical care

Establishing community characteristics contributing to the psychosocial health of refugee and asylum seeking populations with a disability

Evaluation of the implementation of a novel interdisciplinary role-based approach to goal setting in the slow to recover brain injury rehabilitation setting

Integrating an Evidence-Based Clinical Exercise Physiology Service Model into a Comprehensive Multiprofessional Rehabilitation Service for People with Brain Impairment: A Translation Approach

Subjective quality of life after acquired brain injury in adulthood: A systematic review of available evidence-based measures

Effective pain management in everyday life: Developing a model of peer support for persistent pain

Predictors of Self-Rated Health Post-Injury: Findings from claimants in Queensland

Profiles of Vocalisation Change in Children with Autism receiving Early Intervention

Care transition types across acute, sub-acute and primary care: Case studies of older people with complex conditions and their carers

What are clinician perspectives of the Logan Hospital Rehabilitation Unit design?

The significance of resilience on the longer-term wellbeing of family

Way forward: Evaluation of culturally supportive leadership of Indigenous Mental Health Workers in Metro South and Metro North

Developing an evidence-based framework for vocational rehabilitation in early transitional brain injury service

Impact of central obesity and body composition on energy needs and wound healing in people with spinal cord injury undergoing surgical repair of chronic pressure injuries

Translating the National Disability Insurance Scheme into practice: examining choice, collaboration and capacity in the specialist rehabilitation setting

Understanding family workload following traumatic injury

Disability concentration and access to rehabilitation services: a pilot spatial assessment applying geographic information system analysis

Investigating the relationship between spatial environments and quality of life and health service use for people with spinal cord injury

Sleep among patients with brain injury in hospital: A systematic review

Outcomes in long duration spinal cord injury: ten year follow up

The efficacy of housing alternatives for people with an acquired brain or spinal injury: A systematic review

Complex Adjustment to Physical Injury in Rehabilitation: Translating knowledge of resource, support and learning needs of staff into best practice training and clinical care

Integrating an Evidence-Based Clinical Exercise Physiology Service Model into a Comprehensive Multiprofessional Rehabilitation Service for People with Brain Impairment: An Integrated Knowledge Transla

Potential of smartphone apps to assist people with spinal cord injury

Transforming a research idea to a research project and beyond: the impact of a masterclass on facilitating research participation among rehabilitation nurses

Consumer Engagement Strategy

Understanding environmental determinants of sleep quality in patients’ with traumatic brain injury: Improving quality of care in inpatient populations

Community environment and the health and well-being of people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review

EPIDOROS-V2

The provision of Livable Housing design: The costs and benefits to Australian society

Evaluating the first purpose-built housing complex in Australia for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people with complex disability

Using virtual reality to improve the health and wellbeing of people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review

Using Virtual Reality to Impact the Psycho-Emotional Health of People Who Have Experienced Injury and are Receiving Rehabilitation in Hospital

Optimising the delivery of persistent pain management to people with a refugee background in a multicultural context: A retrospective chart audit

Singing Cords: Peer led group singing to enhance breathing, voice and wellbeing

AT HOME ASSIST: A decision support tool for professionals engaging in inclusive housing development

Farming 4 Care: Using nature to cultivate resilience in young people

Inclusive Housing Development: Developing and Testing a Decision System (ARC Linkage Grant ID: LP140100446)

Urban Green Space and Wellbeing

Can people with catastrophic injuries access occupational therapy and physiotherapy: a pilot project applying geographical information system technology

Is the functional independence measure (FIM) equivalent between spinal cord (SCI) and acquired brain injury (ABI) patients: assessing measurement bias

The impact of natural and built environments on brain activity: a systematic review

Using the natural environment to address the psychosocial impact of neurological impairment: a systematic review

Understanding family workload and capacity following catastrophic injury

Adapted Physical Activity Program (APAP)

Compassion in rehabilitation nursing: A study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences of compassion in caring in the inpatient rehabilitation setting.

Participation in life after traumatic spinal cord injury – an analysis of person perceived determinants and the implications for rehabilitation

Person-centred care in a digital environment: An exploration of health professional use and experience of integrated electronic medical records (ieMRs) in spinal injury rehabilitation settings

The feasibility of using mouthpiece ventilation post-extubation for acute tetraplegia in the Intensive Care Unit

Validity testing of a new conceptual framework for rehabilitation, post spinal cord injury

Trajectories of Rehabilitation across Complex Environments (TRaCE)

Epidoras: tracking gaps and needs in the delivery of health, rehabilitation and disability services in Queensland

Developing a neurocognitive design environmental assessment model (review and frramework)

Research Support for Review of Services to Young People with OOHC

Developing and testing a decision system for identifying housing options, mapping preferences and evaluating priorities in the disability market

Assault and Brain Injury (Aabi) Project

Creating an inpatient peer support group to enhance the psychosocial functioning of brain injured patients