Opportunities
Get involved
We have many different projects happening – please get in touch with us to be involved!
Our current projects include:
Conversation skills training for people with acquired brain injury
convers-ABI-lity is a 10 week program for people with ABI and their communication partners (family, friends and support workers) to develop skills for most conversations together. The program involves self-guided activities and videocall sessions with a speech pathologist.
For more information, contact Dr Rachael Rietdijk on rachael.rietdijk@sydney.edu.au.
Participate in training to improve social media skills after brain injury
We are looking for people who have an acquired brain injury who are interested in learning more about using social media after their injury.
We are asking people to:
- complete an online social media training course (2 hours), and
- practice their social media skills in a closed Facebook group (for 8 weeks).
If you’d like to do the course you can sign up for access on the social-ABI-lity page.
If you would like to find out more about the course or the Facebook groups, please contact Dr Melissa Brunner on melissa.brunner@sydney.edu.au.
A tool to improve your interactions with people with a brain injury
interact-ABI-lity is a free short course designed for family members, friends, support workers, and professionals working in brain injury.
- Hear from people with a brain injury and their family members
- Learn about communication changes
- Learn how to support people with their communication
- Gain a certificate of completion
Read more about the course and sign up for access on the interact-ABI-lity page.
For more information, contact Dr Rachael Rietdijk on rachael.rietdijk@sydney.edu.au.
Try out some Virtual Reality apps & tell us what you think: Virtual Reality in TBI Rehabilitation
We’re looking for people with traumatic brain injury and speech pathologists in Sydney to trial and provide feedback about using virtual reality (VR) for assessing conversation skills. Participating in this study involves:
- Completing some communication assessments via Zoom (participants with TBI only)
- Testing VR apps with the research team at The University of Sydney Camperdown campus
- Providing feedback about the VR apps and tasks.
If you would like more information about this study, please contact Sophie Brassel on sophie.brassel@sydney.edu.au.
Interview: Dating after brain injury
Have you had a traumatic brain injury?
Were you single after your injury?
Are you willing to take part in a Microsoft Teams interview about your experiences of dating?
The purpose of this study is to explore a person’s experiences of dating after a brain injury. We want to learn about:
• Why you want to date?
• How do you find a date?
• How do you know if a date is going well?
Dr Nicholas Behn (City University London) and Professor Jacinta Douglas (La Trobe University) are doing a research study to find out more about how people with a brain injury experience dating.
If you are interested in participating, please look at the flyer and read the participant information sheet.
If you would like to discuss this study further, please contact Dr Nicholas Behn on nicholas.behn@city.ac.uk.
Survey for educators of speech pathology students: TBI Bank Grand Rounds
We are looking for educators who teach in the field of communication disorders and traumatic brain injury to participate in a short online survey. We want to evaluate current use of TBIBank Grand Rounds by educators and obtain recommendations on how it could be enhanced for future use.
If you are interested in participating, please click the following link to the survey (including the participant information statement and consent process). This project has ethical approval from the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (2022/547).
If you would like to discuss this project further, please contact Dr Elise Elbourn at elise.elbourn@sydney.edu.au
TBI Research Registry
If you would like to stay informed or be involved in our future research projects, please contact Professor Leanne Togher on leanne.togher@sydney.edu.au to be included in our TBI Research Registry.
The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research Registry is a contact list to support our research to improve services for people with communication difficulties after a traumatic brain injury, their family members, and friends.
