Professor Christine Bigby

Professor Christine Bigby is Director of the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University. She has a long track record of working in partnership with disability support and advocacy organisations investigating the effectiveness of programs and practice to support the social inclusion of adults and older people with intellectual disabilities. She has led a team studying the practice of supported decision making since 2015 and a longitudinal study of the quality of support in group homes since 2009. She has won the Research award of the Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability four times since 1993. Professor Bigby was a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council from 2019- 2023 and has published 10 books, 51 book chapters, 192 journal articles and numerous research reports. She is the founding editor of the Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and has served as President of the Australasian Society of Intellectual Disability since 2022.