Blog of Dr Darryl Sellwood

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

Tag: Research

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Exploring lived experiences through narratives: Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell” (2013)

    This past week I have started to write the methodology chapter of my thesis again. It has been a document that I have been throwing stuffed into from other pieces I have wrote along the way, such as ethics applications and presentations, but now it is time to develop it into a chapter. A part…

  • A Sound of a Smile Research Paper, ISAAC 2010

    Sellwood, D. Wood, D. and Raghavendra, P. (2010). The Sound of a Smile: Comparing User Perspectives of Two Alternative Telecommunications Services for People with Complex Communication Needs (CCN). Paper presented at the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Biennial Conference. July 26-31, Barcelona. Abstract: This project aims to investigate user perspectives on the usefulness of…