Academic grants
2022 NHMRC GNT2006240 Developing a model of preventive health care for people with intellectual disability Partnership project, CI1 Julian Trollor, Harris, Kavanagh, Fisher, Long, Reppermund, Harris-Roxas, Spooner, Sharma $2,479,755
2021 NHMRC Understanding the Health and Service System Needs of People with Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Cognitive, and Neurological Disorders - Establishment of an interdisciplinary Big Data Hub. CI1 Trollor, Reppermund, Sachdev, Brodaty, Srasuebkul, Christensen, Vajdic, Mather, Dowse, Fisher, Baldry, Dean. Public Health and Chronic Disease Grant Program National Palliative Care Projects $175,945
2021 ARC LP210200536 Confronting everyday harms: preventing abuse of people with disability (CI Sally Robinson, Karen Fisher, Claire Spivakovsky, Heikki Ikäheimo; PI Jeffrey Chan, Aaron Hart, Robbi Williams, Samantha Frain $466,852
2019 ARC DP190102711 Making complex interfaces work for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, (CI Michele Foster, Paul Henman, Karen Fisher) $300,000
2017 ESRC, The politics of services subcontracting to NGOs in China, (CI Jude Howell, London School of Economics and Political Science, PIs Xiaoyuan Shang, Karen Fisher, Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr, Regina Enjuto-Martinez), $250,000
2016 ARC LP160100188, Building China’s welfare state: government purchased services for children, (CI Xiaoyuan Shang, Karen Fisher, Natasha Cortis, PI Jude Howell (LSE), Lihua Tong (BLARC) $285,000
2015 ARC LP150100013, Young people with cognitive disability: relationships and paid support, (CI Sally Robinson, Ann Graham (SCU), Karen Fisher, Kelley Johnson, PI Ed Hall (Dundee)), 2016-19, $360,000.
UNSW grants
2024 CI Georgia Van Toorn, Karen Fisher et al. co-esigning disability-inclusive disaster respone in the Philippines, Australian Human Rights Institute and UNSW Disability Innovation Institute, $20,000
2020 CI Karen Fisher, Rosemary Kayess, Sally Robinson, Frances Quan Farrant, Self managing NDIS packages: promising practices for people left behind, Disability Innovation Institute UNSW, Seed Funding $30,000
2020 CI Qian Fang, Karen Fisher, Bingqin Li, Culturally responsive disability support with Chinese people in Sydney, Disability Innovation Institute UNSW, Seed Funding $30,000
2019 CI Bingqin Li, Karen Fisher, Zhiming Cheng, Disability employment and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Disability Innovation Institute UNSW, Seed Funding $30,000
2019 CI Catherine Spooner, Mark Harris, Karen Fisher, Ben Harris-Roxas, Patrick Bolton, Jane Taggart, Pathways to Preventive care for People with Severe Mental Illness, Disability Innovation Institute UNSW, Seed Funding $30,000
2017 Arts and Social Sciences Grant, UNSW, Digital economies and people with disability in Australia and China, CI Haiqing Yu, Karen Fisher, Bingqin Li, Gerard Goggin, $11,000
Other Competitive Grants
2024 CI Karen Fisher, Sandra Gendera, Evaluation of Bondi Prevention and Recovery Centre (PARC), Independent Community Living Australia (ICLA), $35, 487
2024 CI Karen Fisher, Sandra Gendera, Sally Robinson, Evaluation of Community for Everyone, Side by Side Advocacy, Hunter Circles, $100,000
2023 CI Karen Fisher, Sandra Gendera, Gianfranco Giuntoli, Evaluation of Good Sammy Enterprises Open Employment Trials, Paul Ramsay Foundation and anonymous $350,000
2023 CI Karen Fisher, Sandra Gendera, Evaluation of the DREAM Network, Children and Young People Disability Australia (CYDA), $60,000
2022 CI Karen Fisher, Christy Newman, Kerryn Drysdale, Ciara Smyth, Our Voices, Our Lives, Our Way project, National Ethic Disability Alliance, LGBTIQ+ Health, DSS NDIS ILC $75,000
2021 CI Karen Fisher, Sally Robinson, Rosemary Kayess, Christiane Purcal, Gianfranco Giuntoli, Jan Idle, Christy Newman, Policy to change community attitudes toward disability, Disability Royal Commission
2021 CI Karen Fisher, Sally Robinson, Sandra Gendera, Michele Bellon, NACBO capacity building evaluation, Purple Orange
2021 CI Karen Fisher, Sally Robinson, Sandra Gendera, Michele Bellon, Our Voice SA evaluation, Purple Orange
2020 CI Karen Fisher, Sally Robinson, Sandra Gendera, June Alexander, Ellen Fraser-Barbour, Road to Employment evaluation, Purple Orange (NDIS PITC), $65,000
2020 CI Karen Fisher, Julian Trollor, Christiane Purcal, Janelle Weise, Peri O’Shea, Frederick Zmudzki, Evaluation of the Intellectual Disability Mental Health Hubs, NSW Health, $200,000
2020 CI Karen Fisher, Julian Trollor, Christiane Purcal, Janelle Weise, Peri O’Shea, Frederick Zmudzki, Evaluation of the Intellectual Disability Mental Health Residual NDIS Funding, NSW Health, $260,000
2019 CI Karen Fisher, Rosemary Kayess, Sandra Gendera, Enable In Action Research, People With Disability Australia, $75,000
2018 CI Karen Fisher, Christiane Purcal, Gianfranco Giuntoli, Peri O’Shea, Frederick Zmudzki, Evaluation of the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative Plus (HASI Plus), NSW Health, $400,000
2018 CI Karen Fisher, Christiane Purcal, Laura Davy, Ayah Wehbe, Rosemary Kayess, Sally Robinson, National Disability Strategy Review, Dept of Social Services, $100,000
2017 CI George Argyrous, Peersan, Patricia Rogers, Keryn Hassal, Karen Fisher, Macfarlan Christiane Purcal, Sally Robinson, Rosemary Kayess, Peer Support Review, NDIA, $600,000
2017 CI Karen Fisher, Christiane Purcal, Gianfranco Giuntoli, Peri O’Shea. Frederick Zmudzki, Evaluation of the Community Living Support and Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (CLS-HASI), NSW Health, $600,000
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