Staff

Course Co-ordinator: Russell Shuttleworth Ph.D., M.S.W., M.A. (Antropology), B.A. Hons (Anthropology)

Dr. Russell Shuttleworth, a medical anthropologist, has a primary research interest in sexuality and disability and an extensive background in qualitative research. He has a passion for conceptually innovative research that makes a difference! He is developing an interdisciplinary model for international collaborative research in sexuality and disability with the University of Sydney as the hub. Russell is keen to involve both colleagues and postgraduate students in developing a holistic sexuality and disability research agenda that transcends disciplinary differences.

For several years, Russell chaired the San Francisco Bay Area’s Sexuality and Disability Research Consortium, a discussion group on sexuality and disability research issues. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with men with cerebral palsy on their search for sexual intimacy, and he has also completed several life histories of notable disabled men focusing on their sexual narratives. Russell also has a longstanding interest in disability studies and has conducted social justice research with disabled people on many issues including social barriers to health care for people with speech impairments and the construction of identity for disabled political leaders. Other areas of interest include aging and sexuality; masculinity and disability; culture mental health and aging; anthropology and disability; and qualitative research methods.

Russell has extensive experience in the development of educational programs in sexuality and disability. For fall semester 2008, Russell developed an interdisciplinary unit of study in Sexuality and Disability that focused on research issues, which is being offered in Web CT in the Graduate Program in Sexual Health. He is currently modifying the unit of study Sexuality and People with Developmental Disability in the Graduate Program in Developmental Disability, maintaining its major focus on people with an intellectual disability but adding a module on those people with developmental disability whose impairments are primarily physical, as well as incorporating discussion of some recent cutting edge issues in sexuality and disability such as facilitated sex and use of sex worker services. Other courses he is teaching at Sydney University include Aging and Sexuality and Qualitative Health and Social Research.

For relaxation Russell enjoys blowing some mean blues harp, doodling with coloured inks, and listening to multi-genre music.

Telephone: +61 2 9351 9647
Fax: +61 2 9351 9166
Email: r.shuttleworth@usyd.edu.au

Research Assistant: Angela Dew M.A.(Hons), B.A. (Sociology)

Angela has worked in the field of disability for the past 25 years in the government and non-government sectors in direct service provision, management, teaching and research. Angela's particular area of interest has been the de-institutionalisation of people with disabilities and their subsequent integration and participation in their local communities. Angela’s other areas of interest include the ageing of people with disabilities, particularly women. Angela is currently undertaking doctoral research in the role of adult siblings in the lives of their brothers and sisters with disabilities and how to manage transitions of care.

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Telephone: +61 2 9351 9050
Fax: +61 2 9351 9166
Email: a.dew@usyd.edu.au