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Supporting Research and Learning in Rehabilitation

The Burwood Academy is a dynamic organisation committed to delivering research excellence and outcomes that improve the lives of people living with disability.

Research that matters by people who care!

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Research

Research raises important questions and contributes solutions to large societal problems. We conduct consumer-based disability and rehabilitation research, focusing on translating the findings into actions and outcomes that really matter.

Our research framework consists of four key elements:

  1. Remaining healthy
  2. Engaging rehabilitation
  3. Maximising participation
  4. Creating an enabling society
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Engaging PLEx

Our engagement with people with lived experience is underpinned by the following:

  • The person with the lived experience includes whanau and others linked to the individual.
  • Those affected by a decision have a right to be part of the decision making process.
  • Their input will influence that decision.
  • Nothing about us, without us.
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Education

We deliver educational excellence to researchers, clinicians, tertiary students and people who are living with disability.

The BAIL Scholarship provides opportunity for Masters and PhD students to gain competence in Independent Living (IL).

Our regular presentations offer a wide range of opportunities to further develop knowledge and understanding of Independent Living (IL) and connect with others in the sector.

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Knowledge Translation

We apply a culture of knowledge translation research across all that we do.

This spectrum of activities which moves research from the laboratory, the research journal, and the academic conference into the hands of people and organisations who can put it to practical use will help to close the current 18 year gap between research findings becoming common practice.

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Peer Group Presentations

Peer Group 8th March 2023: Connecting with our Research Community

13/01/2023
To kick off 2023, we are working towards our first BAT Peer Group meeting in March. This will be a forum exploring research priorities in the realms of lived experience of disability along with health, wellbeing and rehabilitation and how to bring them to bear in our workplaces and community.
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Peer Group 9th November 2022: Early Vocational Rehabilitation following Neurological Disability Study

20/10/2022
Jen, Rachelle and Julianne from Univeristy of Otago and Burwood Academy are set to share overall learnings from the EVocS project at our next Peer Group meeting on the 9th November. This will be of relevance to health care providers working with people with spinal cord injury and acquired brain injury, and to vocational providers in general.
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Peer Group 8th September 2022: Annette Rotheram

20/09/2022
What makes a conversation successful when one person has aphasia?​ Development of a patient reported outcome measure. Results from a scoping review and nominal groups with couples with aphasia
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Recruiting Now!

06/10/2022
We are seeking participants for a study on what makes for positive relationships between Disabled People and Community Disability Support Workers in Canterbury.
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Announcing Burwood Academy’s new General Manager

14/09/2022
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Peer Group 21st July 2022: Dr Debbie Snell

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is common among people with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (TSCI), but rates vary across studies associated with different approaches to TBI diagnosis. In this presentation, Debbie will present the findings from a population-based perspective cohort study reviewing rates of co-occuring TBI among people with TSCI.

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Dr Johnny Bourke, Inaugural CMRF Emerging Researcher Fellow

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Peer Group 21st June 2022: George Stilwell

Quantitative strength analysis of people with C5-C7 tetraplegia. George presents the findings from his PhD studies that were completed with the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Canterbury.

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