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.
What do people with TBI think about the pictures used in speech pathology story tasks?
Researchers at the Hunter Brain Injury Service and University of Newcastle want to find out what people with TBI think about pictures used in speech therapy.
You can read more about this study here.
You can review the consent form here.
Would you like to participate, or have questions about the study? Please contact Dr Joanne Steel at the University of Newcastle at Joanne.Steel@newcastle.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.
