Dr Lisa Stafford

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Personal details
Keywords
Disability, Spatial Justice, Inclusive Communities and regions, Universal Design and Sustainable neighbourhood, transport and open-space planning, Social and economic participation, participatory research methods, lived Experiences & phenomenology, Children and young people with disabilities and diverse children's geographies, Place-based, Education to work pathways, Participation
Research field
Human geography, Policy and administration, Urban and regional planning
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) - Member Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) - Full Member Disability Leadership Institute (DLI) - Member Centre for Universal Design Australia - Member
Teaching
Supervision topics include:
- Disability Social & Economic Participation
- Disability and childhoods
- Inclusive Communities & Spatial Justice
- Universal Design
- Person Environment Studies & Everydayness
Supervision research methods include:
- Phenomenology - Lived experiences
- Interpretative Policy Analysis
- Post-occupancy evaluations
- Participatory research methods
Teaching: Current lecturer/unit coordinator - SWB306 - People, Community, Disability; SWB102 - Human Development and Behaviour; SWB212- Community and Place Base Practice in School of Public Health and Social Work. Past teaching: School of Design’s undergraduate theoretical subjects: DTB403 Design Psychology and DTB504 Design in Society. Also guest lectured in Masters level unit LCN601 – Designing Spaces for Learning on topics of inclusion and universal design.
Publications
QUT ePrints
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Filter publications:
2023
- Chamorro-Koc, M., Beatson, A., Marston, G., Stafford, L. & Amaral, C. (2023). Seamless journeys to Work: For Young People with Physical / Neurological Disabilities. Queensland University of Technology. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238184
2022
- Stafford, L., Harkin, J., Rolfe, A., Morley, C. & Burton, J. (2022). Frontline Workers' Challenges in Hearing Children's Voices in Family Support Services. Australian Social Work, 75(1), 96–110. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207475
- Morley, C., Rolfe, A. & Stafford, L. (2022). Empowering Children’s Voices: Final Report: Synthesis of all three stages of the study. Queensland University of Technology. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/239152
2021
- Beatson, A., Riedel, A., Chamorro-Koc, M., Marston, G. & Stafford, L. (2021). Factors influencing the journey to work for young people with physical and/or neurological conditions. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(9), 1270–1278. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197263
- Stafford, L., Harkin, J., Rolfe, A., Burton, J. & Morley, C. (2021). Why having a voice is important to children who are involved in family support services. Child Abuse & Neglect, Article 104987, 115. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209156
2020
- Stafford, L., Adkins, B. & Franz, J. (2020). Bounded at the driveway's edge: body-space tensions encountered by children with mobility impairments in moving about the neighbourhood street. Children's Geographies, 18(3), 298–311. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/128359
- Beatson, A., Riedel, A., Chamorro-Koc, M., Marston, G. & Stafford, L. (2020). Encouraging young adults with a disability to be independent in their journey to work: A segmentation and application of Theory of Planned Behaviour approach. Heliyon, Article e03420, 6(2), 1–10. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197450
- Stafford, L. (2020). Disrupting ableism in social work pedagogy with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and critical disability theory. In Morley, C., Ablett, P., Noble, C. & Cowden, S. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work (pp. 359–372). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199654
- Beatson, A., Riedel, A., Chamorro-Koc, M., Marston, G. & Stafford, L. (2020). Increasing the independence of vulnerable consumers through social support. Journal of Services Marketing, 34(2), 223–237. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199825
- Harkin, J. A., Stafford, L. & Leggatt‐Cook, C. (2020). Influences on children's voices in family support services: Practitioner perspectives. Child and Family Social Work, 25(4), 955–963. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202420
- Chamorro-Koc, M., Beatson, A., Sartori do Amaral, C., Tuzovic, S., Stafford, L. & Marston, G. (2020). Seamless journeys to work: A multifaceted approach to exploring daily journeys to work experiences of young people with disabilities. Proceedings of DRS2020 Synergy, 3, 1201–1215. Design Research Society (UK). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203847
- Chamorro-Koc, M., Beatson, A., Sartori do Amaral, C., Stafford, L., Marston, G. & Adkins, B. (2020). Connecting the dots for seamless journeys to work: From lived experiences to seamless scenarios of mobility. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design4Health, 1, 94–103. Sheffield Hallam University. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205935
- Stafford, L., Marston, G., Mitchell, S., Beatson, A. & Chamorro-Koc, M. (2020). Insights into young people with disabilities’ education to work journeys: Submission to Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability on Employment Issues. Commonwealth Government of Australia. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/204719
- Stafford, L. (2020, December). Planning Inclusively: Disrupting ‘Ableism’ to Make Communities Just for All. QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Papers, 1–4. QUT Centre for Justice. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210846
2019
- Stafford, L. & Marston, G. (2019). Using interpretive policy analysis to uncover meanings about disability employment and income policy regarding young adults and education-employment pathways. In SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2, (pp. 1–17). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/124097
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/lisa.stafford
Selected research projects
- Title
- Inclusive Community Planning for People with Disabilities in Regional Areas
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE190101512
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- Title
- Seamless Journeys to Work for Young Adults with Physical Disabilities
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP150100168
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.