Experience

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Director, Policy

  • Aug 2021 - Present



Aruma

• Australia
• Individual and Family Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Research Lead

  • Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

  Responsible for overseeing Aruma's National Research Agenda.

• Policy Officer, National Safeguarding and Excellence Team

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020



The Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University

• PHD Candidate

  • Feb 2016 - May 2021

  ARC Linkage Scholarship ‘Supported decision-making experiences of young people with cognitive disability: activating agency choice and control’

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2015 - Nov 2017

  Project managed an evaluation of the CREATE Ability Project and the National Disability Services Community Inclusion Initiative.



Social Futures

• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research and Capacity Building Project Officer (Children with Disabilities)

  • Oct 2012 - Jun 2014

  Developed and delivered the Belonging Project - an action-based, participatory research project that aimed to better understand and strengthen belonging and connection for young children with disability and their families in the Tweed Shire Community. http://www.everybodybelongs.org/here/wp-content/uploads/Belonging-Project-Report-of-Outcomes.pdf Developed and delivered the Belonging Project - an action-based, participatory research project that aimed to better understand and strengthen belonging and connection for young children with disability and their families in the Tweed Shire Community. http://www.everybodybelongs.org/here/wp-content/uploads/Belonging-Project-Report-of-Outcomes.pdf



Spiral Research and Consulting

• Research Consultant

  • Apr 2010 - Apr 2014

  Recipient of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Grants Scheme for the project: Another Barrier? Regional consumers, non-profit organisations and the NBN in the Northern Rivers Region (2010). Evaluation of the Northern Rivers Women and Children’s Services - Victims of Crime Grant Program (2012). Project Manager for The Dinner Party- research project and campaign led by Eva Cox (2012). Recipient of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Grants Scheme for the project: Another Barrier? Regional consumers, non-profit organisations and the NBN in the Northern Rivers Region (2010). Evaluation of the Northern Rivers Women and Children’s Services - Victims of Crime Grant Program (2012). Project Manager for The Dinner Party- research project and campaign led by Eva Cox (2012).



Northern Rivers Women and Children's Services

• Coordinator Lismore Women's Resource Centre

  • Jul 2009 - Nov 2011



Consumers' Telecommunications Network

• Policy and Research Project Officer

  • Mar 2008 - Jul 2009