Blog of Dr Darryl Sellwood

Provocative, disruptive and sometimes subversive — inventor of the Bummunicator!

Category: Highlight

  • Oh, Data, data data! Those were days!

    My friend, Matt, in London, has been blogging for over a decade now. His blogs aren’t long but are often thought provoking. I often don’t agree with many of his ideas, but I do admire him as a friend. So, every now and then we will catch up on Facebook for a chat. Last week,…

  • Is it Coffee Time Yet?

    Well, a third of the year has gone past already!!! It has been a busy one for me. As usual, I have many things on the go. The year started with finishing off loose ends on a project funded by the Caring Futures Institute’s COVID-19 grant scheme. I was working as a qualitative researcher, conducting…

  • 2020 Act I, Anything Goes!

    I began to write this blog in the first week of March 2020. For some reason I never got back to finishing the blog entry. However, the way the year 2020 has shaped up to be, I think it is worth posting titled “2020 Act I, Anything Goes!” We are living in interesting times which…

  • The PhD Thesis 2019

    Update: The thesis received a Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. Lived experiences of people with complex communication needs: Romantic and sexual relationships by Darryl James Sellwood Thesis Submitted to Flinders University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Disability and Community Inclusion College of Nursing & Health Sciences July 2019 Supervisors: Associate…

  • Adjusting to post-PhD life

    About three weeks ago I submitted my PhD thesis. A six-year piece of work. It has been a full-on experience with its struggles, yet we got there. I won’t say much about the thesis at moment as it is with two examiners being assessed. It is a quite interesting time at moment trying to adjust…