Susan Collings
Senior Research Fellow
Transforming early Education and Child Health (TeEACH) Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Fellow
Transforming early Education and Child Health (TeEACH) Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Education
Academic Background-
Ph.D. The University of Sydney, Australia Philosophy | Completed: 2014
Publications (24)
Selected Scholarly Contributions
Conceptual meanings of permanency: Photovoice with care-experienced youth
2025
Supporting Carers to Coregulate With Children in Care: Learnings From Action Research With Caseworkers
2025
Assessments, assumptions and ableism: examining court-ordered parenting capacity assessments of parents with intellectual disability and cognitive difficulties
2025
Working toward reunification in New South Wales: Professional perspectives on navigating complex systems
2024
A lost opportunity: did the Disability Royal Commission let down parents with intellectual disabilities and their children?
2024
Digital Relationality, Rights, Resilience: Conceptualising a Digital Social Ecology for Children’s Birth Family Relationships When in Care or Adopted
2023
Co-Design with People with Lived Experience: Designing Resources to Communicate with Children and Young People in Care about their Family Time Contact Visits
2023
Two families joined by a child: the role of direct contact in fostering relationships between birth and carer families in permanent care
2022
Telling visual stories of loss and hope: body mapping with mothers about contact after child removal
2022
2022
“You are mum and then they are mum”: Negotiating roles, relationships, and contact in out‐of‐home care
2022
Action research with caseworkers: Responding to and reflecting on the impacts of COVID‐19 on birth family contact
2022
‘Testing it in the real world’: Using action research to apply a conceptual framework to social care planning
2021
Children’s rights in adoption from out-of-home care: how well do legislative frameworks accommodate them?
2021
Mother of a problem! Are the Needs of Mothers with Intellectual Disability Being Addressed in the NDIS Era?
2021
2020
Benefits and limits of peer support for mothers with intellectual disability affected by domestic violence and child protection
2020
“Living the life I want”: A framework for planning engagement with people with intellectual disability and complex support needs
2019
Parents with intellectual disabilities and their perspective of peer support: “It depends on how they give it”
2019
Unpacking the complexity of planning with persons with cognitive disability and complex support needs
2018
Intersectional Disadvantage: Exploring Differences Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Parents with Intellectual Disability in the New South Wales Child Protection System
2018
‘She was there if I needed to talk or to try and get my point across’: specialist advocacy for parents with intellectual disability in the Australian child protection system
2018
Home and the social worlds beyond: exploring influences in the lives of children of mothers with intellectual disability
2017
The role of formal support in the lives of children of mothers with intellectual disability
2017