Ali Lakhani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6303064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Lakhani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Lakhani |
| SIGNATURE | LAKHANI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3209-7831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Inclusive housing for people with disability
The Down to 10 Days campaign was an advocacy initiative aimed at reducing long delays in housing approvals under Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a federal self-directed funding program for people with disability. Delays in securing appropriate housing often resulted in prolonged hospital stays or inappropriate placements, significantly impacting individuals’ well-being and independence. The campaign, led by a coalition of…
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions
This article offers a more-than-human perspective on an equine assisted learning programme undertaken by marginalised young people attending a flexi-school in Australia. In contrast with therapist led equine programmes, our research examined horse assisted activities as a site of embodied learning. Paying attention to the affective dimension of horse-human relationality we explored how student and teacher narratives articulated learning in terms …
Exploring the relationship between loneliness and volunteering amongst Australian adults
Loneliness is a multifaceted and intricate experience that impacts individuals socially and emotionally. This study's findings confirmed that having protective and enhancement motives to volunteer was associated with increased loneliness. Social motives to volunteer were associated with a tendency to have lower levels of loneliness, possibly due to the positive impact of building and maintaining social relationships through volunteering. Understa…
Predictors of resilience for people with spinal cord injury over two periods of Covid-19 social distancing restrictions
Psychological health, and participation and autonomy are determinants of resilience during periods of crisis. Health and social care providers and public health departments should prioritise programs promoting these domains, to counter the negative impact of social distancing
Characteristics and Health Service Use of a Longitudinal Cohort of Carers Aged over 45 in Central and Eastern Sydney, Australia
Carers are a large portion of the Australian community. In 2018, 2.65 million Australians identified as carers, and almost one-third (32.6%) of this group were primary carers. There is currently a lack of understanding of the impact of being a carer on a person’s health and wellbeing compared to non-carers. This research was undertaken to understand the health status, health risks, and health outcomes for carers in Central and Eastern Sydney, Aus…
Healthcare services for people with acquired disability in South-East Queensland, Australia
This study described access potential in South-East Queensland, to healthcare services commonly used by people with acquired disability; and investigated the association between service proximity and perceived service obstacles. First, we described accessibility by conducting a spatial analysis to create maps of potential accessibility to health services in South-East Queensland. Queensland statistical area level 2 (SA2) locations were combined w…
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings
What happens post‐lockdown for people with disability? Autonomy, quality of life, service access and health changes for people with spinal cord injury in Victoria, Australia after Covid ‐19 social dis…
Social distancing restrictions are undoubtedly important for controlling the spread of COVID-19 however, they are also adversely impacting population health and health service access. It is important that priority populations with a disability which may already have adverse health, access to health services, and autonomy and participation compared to those without disability, are able to receive preventative health and social care during periods …
Teaching traditional indoor school lessons in nature
The natural environment is associated with better behaviour and academic performance in children. However, research to date has been cross-sectional and it is important for experimental studies to investigate if a causal relationship exists. Further, participant samples from areas characterised as disadvantaged are underrepresented in the research. This study investigates the effect that lessons in nature have on disadvantaged young people's beha…
Introducing the Percent, Number, Availability, and Capacity [PNAC] Spatial Approach to Identify Priority Rural Areas Requiring Targeted Health Support in Light of Covid‐19
During December 2019, a new coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, China.1 The spread of COVID-19 since identification has quickly emerged as a global issue with the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic on March 11.2 To date (March 29, 2020), there have been over 716,000 reported cases across 177 countries/regions, with deaths approaching 34,000.1 Those who are older than 65 years of age generally face the most extreme conseque…
Strengthening collaboration through collective impact
Increasing health inequalities and entrenched social problems demands systemic change that challenges the status quo of current programs and policies and enhances intersectorial collaboration between government, service providers, and communities. Collective Impact (CI) is one approach aimed to support local communities solve complex and systemic problems. A case study design is used to describe a rural Australian community’s approach to strength…
Engaging Disenfranchised Youth through an Equine Assisted Activities Program
Evidence suggests equine-assisted activities may provide psychological benefits to young people “at-risk.” Results are presented from an equine program among 14- to 16-year-old children (N = 7), mostly boys (N = 6), attending a non-traditional flexi-school in Australia. Thematic analyses were undertaken on observations by facilitators, researchers, and a school teacher, and interviews with a school teacher. Key themes suggest that program partici…
Participatory music-making and well-being within immigrant cultural practice
Music participation is a way of life for many cultures and is an activity that is often passed on generationally. It can become especially important as a leisure activity for maintenance of self- and national identity for people who have migrated to countries of contrasting cultures, such as Australia. This article describes exploratory, qualitative research into the ways in which participatory music-making within communities from immigrant backg…
Using the natural environment to address the psychosocial impact of neurological disability
Perspectives of self-direction
Perspectives of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Limited research investigates future participants’ perspectives of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) – Australia’s first national attempt towards self-directed disability service provision. To identify future participants’ perspectives, seventy people with disability in South-East Queensland participated in an interview. Over half the participants demonstrated having little to no knowledge of the NDIS. Participants’ expected that: (…
The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment among People Attending a Homeless Service in Far North Queensland with a Majority Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People
ObjectiveTo establish the point prevalence of cognitive impairment among a representative group of homeless people in Cairns. The sample included a large number of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.MethodThis research was conducted among an opportunistic sample of participants residing in a homeless shelter. An interview administered cross‐sectional survey was conducted with 60 participants over 12-weeks. The Kimberly Indigenous Cog…
Art processes
Background: The creative process potentially complements the ABI condition. Given the potential of art to empower people with impaired cognitive capacity and communication skills, it was hypothesized that art therapy techniques could be used to ascertain the perspective of adults with ABI surrounding their housing and support preferences.Method: Visual research methods informed the research protocol reported in this paper. Participants’ pictures …
Play Cave … play in a basket
Play is an underrated, misunderstood and undervalued experience. There is a plethora of literature relating to play, particularly with respect to play and learning in the early years. However, play can also be used as a strengths-based, early intervention and prevention activity that assists families to build and strengthen interactions, attachments and relationships. This paper explores the notion of authentic play experiences and investigates h…
Short and long term outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse (Cald) and at-risk communities in participatory music programs
Study protocol
It is anticipated that the findings of this study will enable stakeholders to incorporate consumer housing preferences into commercial decisions. Housing designers and developers will benefit from the creation of a parsimonious set of consumer-led housing preferences by which to make informed investments in future housing and contribute to future housing policy. The research design has not been applied in the Australian research context or elsewh…
Evidence for Using Farm Care Practices to Improve Attachment Outcomes in Foster Children
They [do more than] Interrupt Us from Sadness
This paper reports on the outcomes of an exploratory narrative study on the impact of participatory music making on social determinants of health (SDOH) and wellbeing for refugees in Brisbane, Australia. A key component of this exploratory research was to map health and wellbeing outcomes of music participation using an existing SDOH framework developed by researchers in the field of health promotion (Schulz & Northridge, 2004). This paper maps r…
Perspectives of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Limited research investigates future participants’ perspectives of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) – Australia’s first national attempt towards self-directed disability service provision. To identify future participants’ perspectives, seventy people with disability in South-East Queensland participated in an interview. Over half the participants demonstrated having little to no knowledge of the NDIS. Participants’ expected that: (…
Participatory music-making and well-being within immigrant cultural practice
Music participation is a way of life for many cultures and is an activity that is often passed on generationally. It can become especially important as a leisure activity for maintenance of self- and national identity for people who have migrated to countries of contrasting cultures, such as Australia. This article describes exploratory, qualitative research into the ways in which participatory music-making within communities from immigrant backg…
Strengthening collaboration through collective impact
Increasing health inequalities and entrenched social problems demands systemic change that challenges the status quo of current programs and policies and enhances intersectorial collaboration between government, service providers, and communities. Collective Impact (CI) is one approach aimed to support local communities solve complex and systemic problems. A case study design is used to describe a rural Australian community’s approach to strength…
What happens post‐lockdown for people with disability? Autonomy, quality of life, service access and health changes for people with spinal cord injury in Victoria, Australia after Covid ‐19 social dis…
Social distancing restrictions are undoubtedly important for controlling the spread of COVID-19 however, they are also adversely impacting population health and health service access. It is important that priority populations with a disability which may already have adverse health, access to health services, and autonomy and participation compared to those without disability, are able to receive preventative health and social care during periods …
Engaging Disenfranchised Youth through an Equine Assisted Activities Program
Evidence suggests equine-assisted activities may provide psychological benefits to young people “at-risk.” Results are presented from an equine program among 14- to 16-year-old children (N = 7), mostly boys (N = 6), attending a non-traditional flexi-school in Australia. Thematic analyses were undertaken on observations by facilitators, researchers, and a school teacher, and interviews with a school teacher. Key themes suggest that program partici…
The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment among People Attending a Homeless Service in Far North Queensland with a Majority Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People
ObjectiveTo establish the point prevalence of cognitive impairment among a representative group of homeless people in Cairns. The sample included a large number of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.MethodThis research was conducted among an opportunistic sample of participants residing in a homeless shelter. An interview administered cross‐sectional survey was conducted with 60 participants over 12-weeks. The Kimberly Indigenous Cog…
Art processes
Background: The creative process potentially complements the ABI condition. Given the potential of art to empower people with impaired cognitive capacity and communication skills, it was hypothesized that art therapy techniques could be used to ascertain the perspective of adults with ABI surrounding their housing and support preferences.Method: Visual research methods informed the research protocol reported in this paper. Participants’ pictures …
They [do more than] Interrupt Us from Sadness
This paper reports on the outcomes of an exploratory narrative study on the impact of participatory music making on social determinants of health (SDOH) and wellbeing for refugees in Brisbane, Australia. A key component of this exploratory research was to map health and wellbeing outcomes of music participation using an existing SDOH framework developed by researchers in the field of health promotion (Schulz & Northridge, 2004). This paper maps r…
Play Cave … play in a basket
Play is an underrated, misunderstood and undervalued experience. There is a plethora of literature relating to play, particularly with respect to play and learning in the early years. However, play can also be used as a strengths-based, early intervention and prevention activity that assists families to build and strengthen interactions, attachments and relationships. This paper explores the notion of authentic play experiences and investigates h…
Short and long term outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse (Cald) and at-risk communities in participatory music programs
Study protocol
It is anticipated that the findings of this study will enable stakeholders to incorporate consumer housing preferences into commercial decisions. Housing designers and developers will benefit from the creation of a parsimonious set of consumer-led housing preferences by which to make informed investments in future housing and contribute to future housing policy. The research design has not been applied in the Australian research context or elsewh…
Evidence for Using Farm Care Practices to Improve Attachment Outcomes in Foster Children
Art processes
Background: The creative process potentially complements the ABI condition. Given the potential of art to empower people with impaired cognitive capacity and communication skills, it was hypothesized that art therapy techniques could be used to ascertain the perspective of adults with ABI surrounding their housing and support preferences.Method: Visual research methods informed the research protocol reported in this paper. Participants’ pictures …
Perspectives of self-direction
Perspectives of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Limited research investigates future participants’ perspectives of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) – Australia’s first national attempt towards self-directed disability service provision. To identify future participants’ perspectives, seventy people with disability in South-East Queensland participated in an interview. Over half the participants demonstrated having little to no knowledge of the NDIS. Participants’ expected that: (…
The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment among People Attending a Homeless Service in Far North Queensland with a Majority Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People
ObjectiveTo establish the point prevalence of cognitive impairment among a representative group of homeless people in Cairns. The sample included a large number of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.MethodThis research was conducted among an opportunistic sample of participants residing in a homeless shelter. An interview administered cross‐sectional survey was conducted with 60 participants over 12-weeks. The Kimberly Indigenous Cog…
Using the natural environment to address the psychosocial impact of neurological disability
Engaging Disenfranchised Youth through an Equine Assisted Activities Program
Evidence suggests equine-assisted activities may provide psychological benefits to young people “at-risk.” Results are presented from an equine program among 14- to 16-year-old children (N = 7), mostly boys (N = 6), attending a non-traditional flexi-school in Australia. Thematic analyses were undertaken on observations by facilitators, researchers, and a school teacher, and interviews with a school teacher. Key themes suggest that program partici…
Participatory music-making and well-being within immigrant cultural practice
Music participation is a way of life for many cultures and is an activity that is often passed on generationally. It can become especially important as a leisure activity for maintenance of self- and national identity for people who have migrated to countries of contrasting cultures, such as Australia. This article describes exploratory, qualitative research into the ways in which participatory music-making within communities from immigrant backg…
Teaching traditional indoor school lessons in nature
The natural environment is associated with better behaviour and academic performance in children. However, research to date has been cross-sectional and it is important for experimental studies to investigate if a causal relationship exists. Further, participant samples from areas characterised as disadvantaged are underrepresented in the research. This study investigates the effect that lessons in nature have on disadvantaged young people's beha…
Introducing the Percent, Number, Availability, and Capacity [PNAC] Spatial Approach to Identify Priority Rural Areas Requiring Targeted Health Support in Light of Covid‐19
During December 2019, a new coronavirus (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, China.1 The spread of COVID-19 since identification has quickly emerged as a global issue with the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic on March 11.2 To date (March 29, 2020), there have been over 716,000 reported cases across 177 countries/regions, with deaths approaching 34,000.1 Those who are older than 65 years of age generally face the most extreme conseque…
Strengthening collaboration through collective impact
Increasing health inequalities and entrenched social problems demands systemic change that challenges the status quo of current programs and policies and enhances intersectorial collaboration between government, service providers, and communities. Collective Impact (CI) is one approach aimed to support local communities solve complex and systemic problems. A case study design is used to describe a rural Australian community’s approach to strength…
Healthcare services for people with acquired disability in South-East Queensland, Australia
This study described access potential in South-East Queensland, to healthcare services commonly used by people with acquired disability; and investigated the association between service proximity and perceived service obstacles. First, we described accessibility by conducting a spatial analysis to create maps of potential accessibility to health services in South-East Queensland. Queensland statistical area level 2 (SA2) locations were combined w…
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings
What happens post‐lockdown for people with disability? Autonomy, quality of life, service access and health changes for people with spinal cord injury in Victoria, Australia after Covid ‐19 social dis…
Social distancing restrictions are undoubtedly important for controlling the spread of COVID-19 however, they are also adversely impacting population health and health service access. It is important that priority populations with a disability which may already have adverse health, access to health services, and autonomy and participation compared to those without disability, are able to receive preventative health and social care during periods …
Predictors of resilience for people with spinal cord injury over two periods of Covid-19 social distancing restrictions
Psychological health, and participation and autonomy are determinants of resilience during periods of crisis. Health and social care providers and public health departments should prioritise programs promoting these domains, to counter the negative impact of social distancing
Characteristics and Health Service Use of a Longitudinal Cohort of Carers Aged over 45 in Central and Eastern Sydney, Australia
Carers are a large portion of the Australian community. In 2018, 2.65 million Australians identified as carers, and almost one-third (32.6%) of this group were primary carers. There is currently a lack of understanding of the impact of being a carer on a person’s health and wellbeing compared to non-carers. This research was undertaken to understand the health status, health risks, and health outcomes for carers in Central and Eastern Sydney, Aus…
Exploring the relationship between loneliness and volunteering amongst Australian adults
Loneliness is a multifaceted and intricate experience that impacts individuals socially and emotionally. This study's findings confirmed that having protective and enhancement motives to volunteer was associated with increased loneliness. Social motives to volunteer were associated with a tendency to have lower levels of loneliness, possibly due to the positive impact of building and maintaining social relationships through volunteering. Understa…
Inclusive housing for people with disability
The Down to 10 Days campaign was an advocacy initiative aimed at reducing long delays in housing approvals under Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a federal self-directed funding program for people with disability. Delays in securing appropriate housing often resulted in prolonged hospital stays or inappropriate placements, significantly impacting individuals’ well-being and independence. The campaign, led by a coalition of…
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions
This article offers a more-than-human perspective on an equine assisted learning programme undertaken by marginalised young people attending a flexi-school in Australia. In contrast with therapist led equine programmes, our research examined horse assisted activities as a site of embodied learning. Paying attention to the affective dimension of horse-human relationality we explored how student and teacher narratives articulated learning in terms …
Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works)