Karen Fisher

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UNSW Sydney

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Professor Karen Fisher is a faculty member at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Her research primarily focuses on decision-making rights and self-determination for individuals with cognitive and intellectual disabilities. Recent articles include topics such as the involvement of mental health consumers in co-designing service improvements and the accessibility of information for people with disabilities. Additionally, she explores the impacts of neoliberal policies on social service purchasing in both Chinese and Australian contexts.

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The politics of services subcontracting to NGOs in China

Open Date: 2017-08-31

Close Date: 2020-08-30

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Government purchased services for children

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-12-31

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Young people with cognitive disability: Relationships and paid support

Open Date: 2015-01-01

Close Date: 2017-12-31

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Improving the Mental Health Outcomes of People with Intellectual Disability

Open Date: 2014-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

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Accountability and user participation in Chinese child welfare nongovernment organisations

Open Date: 2012-01-01

Close Date: 2015-12-31

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Rethinking how people with cognitive disability complain

Peer-led self-advocacy for people with intellectual disability through the lens of “freedom through encounter”

Accessibility of Australian government online cancer screening information for people with intellectual disability

Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

Navigating parental involvement in self-managed personal assistance: supporting the self-determination of people with intellectual disabilities

Hub and Spokes in Intellectual Disability Mental Health Support

Mental health consumers and primary care providers co-designing improvements and innovations: a scoping review

Mental health consumers and primary care providers co-designing improvements and innovations: a scoping review

Coproduction with peer support groups: A new approach to culturally responsive social services

Towards a More Inclusive Society: A Scoping Review of Interventions and Policies for Changing Attitudes Towards People with Disability

Conceptualising the everyday harm experienced by people with cognitive disability: A scoping review of microaggression and emotional and psychological abuse

Five Factors for Effective Policy to Improve Attitudes towards People with Disability

Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia

The future of preventive health care for people with intellectual disabilities in Australia: an analysis of the Disability Royal Commission’s approach, findings and recommendations

Creating the conditions for collaborative decision-making in co-design

The demographic and diagnostic profile of women with intellectual disability and mental health disorder in New South Wales and patterns of service use: A data linkage study

How do self‐advocates use community development to change attitudes to disability?

Claiming space: photovoice, identity, inclusion and the work of disability

Attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities. Commentary on “Stereotypes of people with intellectual disabilities held by university education students” (Beunza-Garcia et al., 2023)

Factors that help people with disability to self-manage their support

How do Australian mental health services use easy read to make information accessible for people with intellectual disability?

Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing

Reaching people who are marginalized in major disability policy reform

Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector

Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons

Shifting power to people with disability in co-designed research

Usar el ‘intermedio’ para generar calidad en las relaciones de apoyo con personas con discapacidad cognitiva

Collaborators (15)

Edward Hall

Jung-Sook Lee

Catherine Needham

Michele Foster

June Alexander

Natasha Cortis

Erin Louise Whittle

Jung Yoon

Ben Harris-Roxas

Jan Idle

Anne Graham

Qian Fang

Sally Robinson

Bani Aadam

Katherine Boydell

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