Blog of Dr Darryl Sellwood

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

Category: PhD

  • If Reading My Thesis Feels Like a Chore, Here’s a Podcast Instead!

    Let’s be real: reading a PhD thesis is not everyone’s idea of a good time. I get it—hundreds of pages of academic jargon and charts might not scream “entertainment.” But what if I told you that you could get the juicy bits of my PhD findings in just 20 minutes? Yep, I’ve turned my research…

  • 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…

  • This site has been cited twice in year

    I am pretty slack with writing blog posts. My last post was at the beginning of the year and now it’s April! The past week I was thinking I should to start writing short blog entries, yet having to worry about heading also a blog, you feel you have to write something more than one…

  • New Year – Clear goal! Complete a PhD thesis!

    A New Year.! Yet a very clear goal! A look back over some of my blog entries I noticed I started my PhD journey by writing that I would write about it on the way through. Well, I probably have not achieved this as much as I would have hoped. The entries have been sporadic…

  • The Adelaide Disability Pride March 2015

    Friday, I went to the Disability Pride March in Adelaide and on reflecting on it, there is so much to unpack. I won’t unpack it all here now. Yes, weather was quite hot, held on a weekday mid-day and there would have been many people who were there in spirit due to the fact that…