Professor Roger Stancliffe
BSc(Hons, University Medal) (Psychology) Newcastle Australia, MA (Hons) PhD(Special Education) Macquarie. FAAIDD FIASSID
Professor of Intellectual Disability
Course Director, Master of Health Science (Developmental Disability
) Leader, Disability Services workstream, Centre for Disability Research and Policy
C43J - J Block Cumberland Campus
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Roger Stancliffe is a researcher in the intellectual and developmental disability field with a special interest in community living. Roger leads the Disability Services stream at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Disability Research and Policy. He is Course Director of the Master of Health Science (Developmental Disability) .Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Disability Studies (1997-2007) in Sydney, and a Research Associate at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA. He maintains an ongoing collaboration with disability researchers at the University of Minnesota.
Roger’s research focuses on making a difference in the everyday lives of people with intellectual disability, and on the services and families that support them. His research interests include choice, self-determination, community living, retirement and community participation, Active Support, physical activity, individual planning, deinstitutionalisation, and cost effectiveness of services. His teaching interests involve topics related to people with intellectual disability, such as community living and Active Support. He has published over 120 research articles and chapters.
His most recent book is Costs and Outcomes of Community Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities (2005). He was Editor of the Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability from 2003 to 2008 and is a Consulting Editor to six international research journals on intellectual disability.
Roger is a regular presenter at national and international conferences on intellectual disability. He is a Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) and the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID), and is the recipient of the 2011 AAIDD Research Award.
Research interests
Roger's research interests include choice, self-determination, community living, retirement and community participation, Active Support, physical activity, individual planning, deinstitutionalisation, and cost effectiveness of services.
Teaching and supervision
- Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching on intellectual and developmental disability, including several units in the Master of Health Science (Developmental Disability).
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Supervision of research students, including honours, masters and PhD students.
Associations
Member of:
- Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (ASID)
- American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) - Fellow
- International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) - Fellow
Awards and honours
- 2012 Appointed as a member of the NHMRC Partnership Projects Grant Review Panel 2012-14.
- 2011 American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) research award 2011.
- 2010 Winner (with colleagues from the University of Minnesota) of the NARRTC (formerly National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers) Best Paper Award for the most outstanding research paper published in 2009 by researchers from the 38 RRTCs in universities across the United States.
- 2008 Elected as a Fellow of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID).
- 2003 National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, Bethesda Maryland, Small Business Innovation Research Program Review Committee Chair.
- 2003-08 Editor Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability.
- 2002 Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).
- 2000-2009 Appointed as a member Office of the Protective Commissioner/ Office of the Public Guardian Advisory Council.
- 1999 ASSID National Research Prize.
- 1996 Ph.D. thesis awarded the 1996 Australian Association for Research in Education national doctoral thesis award.
- 1996 Ph.D. thesis selected for a presentation to the Academy on Mental Retardation. Recognised by the Academy as an Outstanding New Researcher in Mental Retardation.
Selected grants
2011
- Embedding sustainable physical activity into the everyday life of adults with intellectual disability; Stancliffe R, Davis G, Bauman A, Jan S; National Health and Medical Research Council/Partnership Projects.
- A study exploring sexuality knowledge assessment tools for peope with an intellectual impairment; Gore V, Stancliffe R; Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (NSW)/Research Support.
2009
- Transition to retirement for adults with chronic disabilities: increased community capacity; Bigby C, Bishop E, Walton T, Balandin S, Stancliffe R, Bigby C, Balandin S; Australian Research Council/Linkage Projects (LP).
2008
- Rehabilitation Research and Training Centre on Community Living and Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; Lakin K, Stancliffe R; US Department of Education (USA)/Rehabilitation Research and Training Centres.
- Development and Analysis of Multi-State Database; Lakin K, Stancliffe R; US Department of Education (USA)/Rehabilitation Research and Training Centres.
2007
- Moving beyond crisis management: Creating a future for people with disabilities living with ageing parents; Parmenter T, Stancliffe R, Knox M, Donelly M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery.
Selected publications
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