Associate Professor Roger Stancliffe

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Associate Professor Roger Stancliffe is Associate Professor of Disability Studies at The University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences. His teaching interests relate to intellectual and developmental disability. He is a researcher in the developmental disability field with a special interest in community living.

He was the lead investigator in many Australian research and evaluation projects on deinstitutionalisation and community living during his time as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Developmental Disability Studies (1997-2007) in Sydney.

Previously, he has worked in the developmental disability field as a Research Fellow and a Research Associate at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA.

His research interests include choice, self-determination, community living, Active Support, individual planning, deinstitutionalisation, and cost effectiveness of services.

His most recent book is Costs and Outcomes of Community Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities (2005).

He is a member Office of the Protective Commissioner/ Office of the Public Guardian Advisory Council, and a Consulting Editor to six international research journals on intellectual disability. In 2002 he was appointed as a Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) and in 2008 he was elected as a Fellow of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID).