Dr Claire Hutchinson
Research Fellow
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Claire is a mixed methods social scientist who conducts research in ageing, disability and quality of life. Her research focuses on consumers’ service preferences, outcome measurement, and social return on investment.
Claire gained her PhD in psychology at UniSA whilst working as a researcher on a number of disability, ageing, health and community services related projects at Flinders University. She completed her postdoc at UniSA, undertaking a social return on investment analysis of vehicle modifications for people with disability before returning to Flinders in 2019 to join the newly formed Health and Social Care Economics Group at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Claire is currently project managing an ARC Linkage project to develop a new quality of life instrument with aged care consumers for quality assessment and economic evaluation. She recently won an Australian Association of Gerontology ECR Development Grant to extend this work into culturally and linguistically diverse communities: https://www.qol-acc.org/
Given her previous experience as an occupational psychologist working in vocational rehabilitation with disadvantaged job seekers, Claire has a particular research interest in the economic participation of people with disabilities and has completed several studies on this topic including:
- a feasibility study on the use of Discrete Choice Experiments to elicit the social and economic participation service preferences of people with mild intellectual disability.
- a qualitative study with business owners with intellectual disability to identify facilitators, barriers and outcomes of engagement in microenterprise as an employment pathway.
2016 PhD Psychology, University of South Australia
1994 MSc Organisational Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, UK
1992 Graduate Diploma in Psychology, Open University, UK
1990 Bachelor of Arts, Middlesex University, UK
2021-2024- $319,061. Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage. Choosing the way forward: addressing post-parental housing transition needs of adults with intellectual disability and their older family carers. Walker, R., Bigby, C., Wiesel, I., Rillotta, F., Hutchinson, C., & Angley, P.
2021-2025 – $936,786. National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnership Grant. Defining the economic and social return on investment of cancer information and telephone support services for all Australians. McCaffrey, N., White, V., Livingston, T., Mihalopoulos, C., Paul, C., Orellana, L., Engel, L., Hutchinson, C., Hutchinson, A. & Aranda, S. (CIs), Ratcliffe, J., Desilva, D., Fradgley, E. & Steiner, A. (AIs).
2021-2022 - $50,575. Consultancy Income. Evaluation of 'Aim High': equipping students with disability for open employment, Community Bridging Services. Hutchinson, C. (lead), Alexander, J. (AI)
2021-2022 - $245,769. EuroQOL Research Grant. Unravelling the EQ-5D self-report proxy conundrum for older people. Ratcliffe, J., Engel, L., Mulhern, B., Milte, R., Hutchinson, C. & Khadka, J.
2020 - $44,220. Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Quality of Care Experience in Aged Care: expectations versus reality. Ratcliffe, J., Chen, G., Milte, R., Khadka, J. & Hutchinson, C.
2020 - $49,811. Caring Futures Institute Covid-19 Grants. Developing a digital platform for the delivery of the Quality of Life: Aged Care Consumer (QOL-ACC) measure. Ratcliffe, J., Hutchinson, C., Perimal-Lewis, L., Walker, R., Swaffer, K. & Ly, M.
2019-2020 - $19,992. Hal Kendig ECR Research Development Grant, Australian Association of Gerontology Research Trust. Measuring and valuing Quality of Life for economic evaluation and quality assessment: what is important to older people from CALD communities? CI: Hutchinson, C. AI’s: Walker, R. & Ratcliffe, J.
2019-2020 - $10,000. Flinders University Establishment Grant. Beyond open and supported employment: examining the facilitators, barriers and outcomes of microenterprise for people with ID. Hutchinson, C. (AIs) Walker, R. & Ratcliffe, J.
Project Manager for ARC Linkage (LP170100664) A good life: developing a new quality of life instrument with older Australian for economic evaluation in aged care.
Professional Affiliations
- Secretary, South Australian Division of the Australian Association of Gerontology
- Member, Australian Association of Gerontology
- Member, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Special Interest Group, AAG
- Member, Australian Health Economics Society
- Member, Emerging Researchers in Ageing, ERA Australia
Reviewer for the following journals:
- Value in Health (Q1)
- Ageing and Society (Q1)
- BMC Health Services Research (Q1)
- BMC Public Health (Q1)
- BMC Geriatrics (Q1)
- Risk Management and Healthcare Policy (Q1)
- Health Affairs (Q1)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing (Q1)
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability (Q1)
- Health and Social Care in the Community (Q1)
- Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology (Q2)
- Frontiers in Public Health (Q2)
Reviewer for the following grant schemes:
- Health and Care Research Wales (2020-2021)
- RM Gibson Early Career Research Award, Australian Association of Gerontology (2021)
- Robert Penhall Early Career Research Award, Australian Association of Gerontology (2020)
- The Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation (2019)
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