Podcasts
The Living with Disability Research Centre has a large archive of podcast resources.
Our staff recently produced a podcast series based on the book Disability Practice: Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery (Bigby & Hough, 2023).
This page also contains links to various guest appearances by our researchers on other podcasts.
Disability Practice: Safeguarding Quality and Service Delivery
A new podcast series based upon the book of the same name, which is available as a free e-book from Springer.
Each episode coincides with one of the book’s chapters, featuring discussions the chapter’s author and a series of take-home messages to apply to disability service delivery.
This series has been facilitated by Emeritus Professor Christine Bigby AO, Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, and Dr Alan Hough, director of Purpose at Work, who co-edited the Disability Practice book.
Link to read and free download: https://bit.ly/45WTl1y
Group homes for people with intellectual disability
In this episode of the Behaviour Speak Podcast, Professor Christine Bigby speaks about her many years conducting research on identifying the key indicators of good group homes.
2019 Podcasts
How to design effective supports to facilitate community participation. NDIS Sector Development Podcast, National Disability Services (NDS).
Professor Christine Bigby and Fiona Still discuss what community participation is and how service providers can design effective supports to facilitate community participation.
What makes a good group home? ASID Research to Practice.
Professor Christine Bigby and colleagues talk about ongoing research into the factors that make group homes good for people with intellectual disability.
ABC Radio National Life Matters
Professor Christine Bigby and Chantelle Robards appeared on the ABC Radio National Life Matters program on Tuesday 27 March, 2018 at 9:06am. They discussed the progress of the NDIS, described as the biggest social policy reform in Australia since Medicare.
Professor Christine Bigby is Director of the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University.
Chantelle Robards was a speech pathologist and is now an advocate for allied health professionals in NSW who work with the NDIS.