STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Paul Ramcharan
Position:
Honorary Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
Email:
paul.ramcharan@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- Post-parental care planning for rural people with intellectual disabilities (Led by University of South Australia). Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2019 from (2020 to 2022)
- Masters by Research Scholarship in social work with CISVic, Doncare and South East Community Links (Jinny Mcgrath). Funded by: Doncaster Community Care Counselling Center (Doncare) Scholarship from (2019 to 2021)
- The Choosing for Yourself Toolkit. Funded by: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Contract from (2012 to 2013)
- Best practice guide for Disability Support Providers (DSPs) employing support workers within NDIS. Funded by: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Contract from (2012 to 2013)
- Developing a Research Tool for inclusive research around self advocacy history - extra funding to fund RMIT based Research Assistant. Funded by: Australian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability Research Grant pre-2014 from (2009 to 2010)
8 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
Disability, Disability policy, Disability advocacy, Human Rights and Disability, Restrictive practices and Disability.
- Dearn, E.,Ramcharan, P.,Weller, P.,Brophy, L.,Johnson, K. (2023). Supported residential services as a type of “total institution”: Implications for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) In: Australian Journal of Social Issues, 58, 279 - 295
- David, C.,Johnson, B.,Ramcharan, P. (2023). NDIS partnership working? Paradoxes, contested spaces and aspirations of disability leaders, family carers and disability services In: Australian Journal of Social Issues, 00, 1 - 17
- Ramcharan, P.,David, C.,Marx, K. (2020). You are here! Negotiating liminality in place in the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme In: Qualitative Social Work, 19, 359 - 379
- West, R.,Ramcharan, P. (2019). The emerging role of Financial Counsellors in supporting Older Persons in financial hardship and with management of Consumer-directed Care packages within Australia In: Australian Journal of Social Issues, 54, 32 - 51
- Garnham, B.,Bryant, L.,Ramcharan, P.,Yu, N. (2019). Policy, plans and pathways: The 'crisis' transition to post-parental care for people ageing with intellectual disabilities in rural Australian carescapes In: Ageing and Society, 39, 836 - 850
- West, R.,Ramcharan, P. (2017). Evaluation of the Financial Consumer Rights Council - dignity and debt: financial difficulty and getting older initiative In: Financial Consumer Rights Council Melbourne, Australia
- Grant, G.,Pollard, N.,Allmark, P.,Machaczek, K.,Ramcharan, P. (2017). The social relations of a health walk group: an ethnographic study In: Qualitative Health Research, 27, 1701 - 1712
- West, R.,Ramcharan, P.,Basser, L. (2017). Apparently we have human rights to health? Health and human rights frameworks of people with disabilities in Victoria In: Australian Journal of Human Rights, 23, 24 - 41
- Durham, C.,Ramcharan, P. (2017). Insight into brain injury: Factors for feeling and faring better, Springer, Singapore
- Ramcharan, P.,David, C.,Jones, M.,Moors, R. (2015). I'm a person not a job: establishing core competencies for change in Brotherhood of St Laurence Residential Aged Care In: Brotherhood of St. Laurence Melbourne, Australia