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0000-0003-1504-7517
Current Organisations
RMIT University
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La Trobe University
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University of Queensland
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RMIT University City Campus
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Victoria University
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Publisher: University of Queensland Library
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.14264/0C1B929
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-08-2023
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.280
Abstract: In 2022, a new Federal Labor government introduced an NDIA Act amendment and initiatives that indicate a reorientation to partnership working and integration of co‐design principles. “Partnership working” reflects collaborative aspirations where parties commit to trust, shared goals and respect for erse knowledges and experiences. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) espouses a partnership approach and rights‐based values, yet the neoliberal emphasis on in idual choice and marketisation within a social insurance model can privilege certain voices and produce adversarial processes and dynamics. Our focus group research with disability leaders, family carers and disability service professionals explored experiences in the NDIS planning phase with a focus on the extent to which partnership principles operated in practice. Our findings suggest embedded paradoxes time and resources are required to build the trust and relationships central to interpersonal partnerships between in iduals, carers and services but are undermined by organisational and structural factors such as workload pressures, administrative burden and adversarial practices produced in a cost containment context. Tensions in partnership working must also negotiate carers' workload and responsibilities with the autonomy of people with disability. We argue that partnership working is difficult to achieve where structural and systemic limitations and assumptions influence everyday practices. Partnership must operate from empowerment and relational, rather than transactional, principles if genuine participatory and inclusive practice is to be achieved.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2020
Abstract: The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion for people with disabilities and the places in which they live are being challenged in Australia with the transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This paper reports on the experiences of a place-based and participatory action research project in regional Tasmania which sought to co-create citizenship opportunities with co-researchers living with disability. We report on our experience of negotiating this ambitious and emergent project through the uncertain and shifting terrain of the contemporary neoliberal policy and service context. We highlight the rich gains as well as the significant relational, contextual and procedural challenges of operationalising and staying true to bottom up and strengths-based community development principles. Key learnings relate to risks of creating liminal spaces for community action, about power and authority, and about the skills, resources and labour needed to unearth and mobilise in idual and community strengths. We argue that there remains a significant tension between the aspirations of collective action and contemporary services and policy structures that reproduce liminality, silent positioning and place denial. This research challenges traditional disability centric notions of inclusion and place and has implications for the NDIS, for policies at risk of reproducing disabling dynamics, for service innovation and collaboration and for all social workers and others working to develop more inclusive communities.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-10-2020
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.139
Abstract: We show how policy discourses construct consumer choice, performance measurement and quality standards as key technologies in the marketisation of disability services and aged care in Australia. The emergence of performance outcome measurement and increased consumer access to these through erse consumer facing and interactive platforms enables the state to “govern at a distance” through the management and shaping of outcome indicators rather than delivery of services. The state does this by creating market competition and establishing outcomes which reflect the construction people using services as informed and rational consumers rather than citizens. This construction and operationalisation frame marketisation as a rational solution to broken systems, assume choice is unproblematic and ignore erse capacities to access and use information, resource differentials and contextual variables such as market maturity and service availability. The benign marketisation of human services thus discriminates against those who are already marginalised and disadvantaged unless equity strategies are clearly in place.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-10-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-03-2020
DOI: 10.1111/JRE.12729
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 05-2023
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1039/D2RA03979F
Abstract: Our work developed a 3D SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection platform in non-invasive saliva s les using S1-RBD protein-immobilized 3D melt electrowritten poly(ε-caprolactone) scaffolds.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.ACTBIO.2022.07.023
Abstract: Periodontal regeneration is characterized by the attachment of oblique periodontal ligament fibres on the tooth root surface. To facilitate periodontal ligament attachment, a fibre-guiding tissue engineered biphasic construct was manufactured by melt electrowriting (MEW) for influencing reproducible cell guidance and tissue orientation. The biphasic scaffold contained fibre-guiding features in the periodontal ligament component comprising of 100 µm spaced channels (100CH), a pore size gradient in the bone component and maintained a highly porous and fully interconnected interface between the compartments. The efficacy of the fibre-guiding channels was assessed in an ectopic periodontal attachment model in immunocompromised rats. This demonstrated an unprecedented and systematic tissue alignment perpendicular to the dentin in the 100CH group, resulting in the close mimicry of native periodontal ligament architecture. In addition, the histology revealed high levels of tissue integration between the two compartments as observed by the perpendicular collagen attachment on the dentin surface, which also extended and infiltrated the scaffold's bone compartment. In conclusion, the 100 µm fibre-guiding scaffold induced a systematic tissue orientation at the dentin-ligament interface, resembling the native periodontium and thus resulting in enhanced alignment mimicking periodontal ligament regeneration. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Periodontitis is a prevalent inflammatory disease affecting a large portion of the adult population and leading to the destruction of the tooth-supporting structures (alveolar bone, periodontal ligament, and cementum). Current surgical treatments are unpredictable and generally result in repair rather than functional regeneration. A key feature of functional regeneration is the re-insertion of the oblique or perpendicularly orientated periodontal ligament fibre in both the alveolar bone and root surface. This study demonstrates that a highly porous scaffold featuring 100 µm width channels manufactured by the stacking of melt electrospun fibres, induced perpendicular alignment and attachment of the neo-ligament onto a dentine surface. The fibre guiding micro-architecture may pave the way for enhanced and more functional regeneration of the periodontium.
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