Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn
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Biography
My commitment is to find health and social policy and practice solutions to enable disabled individuals and their families to fully participate in our societies.
Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn is an occupational therapist and international leading authority on family and disability and who has lead graduate programs in developmental disability and supervised honours and doctoral candidates from many disciplines. Gwynnyth was lead author and co-editor on the recent international publication on parents and parenting with intellectual disabilities titled Parents with Intellectual Disabilities. Past, Present and Futures - published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010 it is the first international publication to bring together the latest research on the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities and their children. Professor Llewellyn is currently Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities and Consulting Editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research and is an editorial board member of several international journals.
Gwynnyth's current research addresses Disability and ability: How young people with impairments make the transition to adulthood (ARC funded); The transition from secondary school to adulthood: Experiences and life outcomes for youth with an intellectual disability and their families funded by ARC Linkage Grant and headed up by Dr Helen Leonard, University of Western Australia; Capacity building for practitioner working with parents with learning difficulties and their children (FACHSIA funded); Improving the life chances of young disabled Australians (ARC funded) and Health and well-being indicators for children and youth with disabilities (ARACY ARC/NHMRC Network and World University Network funded). Gwynnyth is Lead Investigator on the University of Sydney and Parenting Research Centre Victoria Healthy Start National Strategy.
Teaching and Service Responsibilities
- Guest lecturer in family and disability studies to the Master of Occupational Therapy and the Bachelor of Health Sciences
- Supervision of doctoral students in family and disability studies
Committee Memberships:
- A Healthy University Working Group
- Division Board, The University of Sydney Business School
- Student Staff Consultative Committee
- Steering Committee for a WHO Collaborating Centre
- China Studies Centre Board of Management
- BMRI Governing Committee
Research Opportunities
Selected Publications
- Llewellyn, G., Traustadottir, R., McConnell, D. & Sigurjonsdottir, H.B. (2010). Parents with Intellectual Disabilities: Past, present and futures. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0470772942
- Collings, S. & Llewellyn, G. (2012). Children of parents with intellectual disability: Facing poor outcomes or faring okay? Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 37(1)65-82.
- Foley, K.R., Blackmore, A.M., Girdler, S., O’Donnell, M., Glauert, R., Llewellyn, G. & Leonard, H. (2012). To Feel Belonged: The Voices of Children and Youth with Disabilities on the Meaning of Well-Being. Child Indicators Research, (online first 25 February 2012), http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/well-being/journal/12187
- Wade, C., Llewellyn, G. & Matthews, J. (2011). Modeling contextual influences on parents with intellectual disability and their children. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 116(6), 419-437.
- Emerson, E., Llewellyn, G. , Honey, A. & Kariuki, M. (2011). Lower Well-Being of Young Australian Adults with Self-Reported Disability Reflects their Poorer Living Conditions Rather than the Presence of Health Conditions or Impairments. Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health (online), DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00810.x
- Dew, A. Balandin, S. & Llewellyn, G. (2011). Using a life course approach to explore how the use of AAC impacts on adult sibling relationship. Augmentative and Alternate Communication, 27(4), 245-255.
- Madden, R., Glozier, N., Mpofu, E. & Llewellyn, G. (2011). Eligibility, the ICF and the UN Convention: Australian perspectives. BMC Public Health, 11(suppl 4), S6.
- Emerson, E., Madden, R., Graham, H., Llewellyn, G., Hatton, C. & Robertson, J. (2011). The health of disabled people and the social determinants of health. Public Health, 12(3), 145-147.
- Honey, A., Kariuki, M., Emerson, E. & Llewellyn, G. (2011). Mental health trajectories of young people after disability onset. Disability and Health Journal, 4(2), 91-101.
- Mayes, R., Llewellyn, G. & McConnell, D. (2011). “That’s who I choose to be”: The mother identity for women with intellectual disabilities. Women’s Studies International Forum 34(2), 112- 120.
- Honey, A., Emerson, E. & Llewellyn, G. (2011). The mental health of young people with disabilities: Impact of social conditions. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 46(1), 1-10.
- Llewellyn, G., McConnell, D., Gething, L., Cant, R. & Kendig, H. (2010). Health status and coping strategies among older parent-carers of adults with intellectual disabilities in an Australian sample. Research in Developmental Disabilities 31(6), 1176-1186.
- Emerson, E., McCulloch, A., Graham, H., Blacher, J., Llwellyn, G. & Hatton, C. (2010). Socioeconomic circumstances and risk of common psychiatric disorders among parents of young children with early cognitive delay. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 115(1), 30-42.
- Hatton, C., Emerson, E., Graham, H., Blacher, J. & Llewellyn, G. (2010). Changes in family composition and marital status in families with a young child with cognitive delay. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 23(1), 14-26.
- Llewellyn, G., Bundy, A., Mayes, R., McConnell, D., Emerson, E. & Brentnall, J. (2010). The development and psychometric properties of the Family Life Interview. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 23(1), 52-62.
Selected Grants
- Healthy Start: A national strategy for children of parents with intellectual disability, Department of Family, Community, Housing and Indigenous Affairs – Invest to Grow Grant, 2011-2014, $1,182,221.
- Mental Health and Well-being in Rural Regions, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Collaborative Research Network Grant, 2011-2014, $5,280,000.
- Disability and ability: How young people with impairments make the transition to adulthood, ARC Discovery Project Grant, 2011-2015, $285,000.
- Improving the life chances of young disabled Australians, ARC Discovery Project Grant, 2009-11, $185,000.
- The transition from secondary school to adulthood: Experiences and life outcomes for youth with an intellectual disability and their families, ARC Linkage Projects Scheme (Round 1), 2008-2014, $365,000.