Credits
This website and the content is a part of the Love, Intimacy and Disability Study - a multidisciplinary, cross-Australian disability rights study - promoting holistic sexual health support for people living with a spinal cord injury in Australia - giving people with a spinal cord injury the autonomy in taking action on sexual expression.
The Love, Intimacy and Disability Study is a multidisciplinary cross-Australian study involving researchers from various clinical and research backgrounds:
Dr Marita Heck - Griffith University - QLD Australia - Research Leader, Clinical Nurse Consultant and Midwife
Associate Professor Roxanna Nasseri Pebdani - University of Sydney - NSW Australia - Research Leader, Rehabilitation Counselling
Dr Michèle Verdonck - University of the Sunshine Coast - QLD Australia - Research Leader, Occupational Therapist, ARATA Australian Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Association Board member https://www.arata.org.au/
Professor Jonathan Mason - Cairnmillar Institute - VIC Australia - Research Leader, Clinical Psychology
Ms Asmita Mudholkar - James Cook University - QLD Australia - Research Co-Leader, Senior Academic Lead, Occupational Therapy
Dr Andrew Allen - University of the Sunshine Coast - QLD Australia - Research Co-Leader, Clinical Psychology
Ms Blaze Ireland - Research Co-Leader - Clinical Occupational Therapist
Mr Tim Cudmore - Researcher with Lived Experience
Mr Kieron D’Netto - Researcher with Lived Experience
Ms Stephanie Collas - Researcher with Lived Experience
We would like to thank our Occupational Therapist and Psychology students for supporting us in making the world a better place for sexual quality of life for people living with a disability.
We would further like to thank our team members living with a disability for their invaluable input and their voice to implement change.
Scientific Research Output LIDS Research
Sex-Positive Sexuality Post-Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Metasynthesis
Ireland, B., Pebdani, R. N., Heck, M., Mudholkar, A., & Verdonck, M. (2024). Sex-positive sexuality post- spinal cord injury: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis.. Rehabilitation Psychology. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rep0000573
Thank you Abbey Abdul, Elia Power, Isabelle Beddoes, Jamey Marks, Elizna Smit, Emily Treeby, Hayley Stephens, and Belinda Makin for creating the content of the Sex Positive Community website in two individual honours projects.
Thank you Beau Clarke, Emma McKinlay, Ripley Lethlean and Christina Baumann for creating the content pages, information for parents living with a disability, and the educational tool for Occupational Therapists in an individual honours project.
A special thanks goes to Blaze Ireland and Connor Doig for their invaluable contribution to the LIDS project in their honours and masters projects.
An extra special thanks goes to Tamara Beavin for developing the Sexual Consent page.
SexPositiveOt Website designed by Elizna Smit, Emily Treeby, Hayley Stephens and Belinda Markin.
Sexpositive Community Website designed by Dr Marita Heck.
