Much Ado About Publishing
Episode One: Dr. Roxanna Pebdani
Roxanna Nasseri Pebdani, (PhD, CRC, SFHEA) is Director of Participation Sciences in the Sydney School of Health Sciences. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the American University of Paris, a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counselling from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Counsellor Education from the University of Maryland. She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington. She has been at the University of Sydney since July 2018.
Dr. Pebdani’s work with Taylor & Francis
Pandemic productivity in academia: using ecological momentary assessment to explore the impact of COVID-19 on research productivity
The unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns on mothers around the world were identified as a concern in the early months of the pandemic.
Featured in Higher Education Research & Development
Rethinking device abandonment: a capability approach focused model
It is estimated that approximately 97 million people in the world have complex communication needs and may benefit from alternative and augmentative communication…
Featured in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
A call to action for disability and rehabilitation research using a DisCrit and Disability Justice framework
Disability and ableism exist within a societal context that does not ignore the many facets of a person’s identity, however often our disability research does not recognize how experiences vary…
Featured in Disability and Rehabilitation
Roxy’s Favorite Articles and Researchers
how people’s lives and relationships have changed over twenty years (n = 8). The themes include imagery
and identity, access to relationships, social context and attitudes. Ageing brought greater self-acceptance,
and also lower salience of impairment…
Dr. Pebdani would love to give a shout out to various colleagues and coworkers as they played pivotal roles in her career.
Kurt Johnson
Jim Bellini
Mel Keep
Ryan Naylor
Josh Burns
What Roxy is reading right now:
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors–until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.
Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
