Griffith University

RN, BA, PhD

Contact details for Professor Jayne Clapton

Research expertise

Professor Clapton's main research is the relationship between ethics and disability. Doctoral thesis and ongoing research focuses on confronting moral exclusion for people with disability (including biotechnology agendas). Also interested in professional ethics and human service practices. Feminist studies.

Publications

• Clapton, J. & Clements, N. (2010). Complex options or complex needs? Addressing the housing and support needs of people withimpaired decision-making capacity who experience chronic homelessness. Full version (PDF 194k)
  
• Clapton, J. & L, Chenoweth, L. (2009). Paper presented at the Queensland Shelter 2009 conference ?Making sense of the big picture: Pathways to Affordable Housing in Queensland?. Brisbane,
• Clapton, J. & Clements, N. (2009). Understanding homelessness for people with impaired decision making capacity in Queensland: A research project, presented at the Australian Guardianship and Administration Council 2009 conference ?Social Inclusion: The Future of Ageing, Disability and Substituted Decision-Making?. Brisbane, 19-20 March.
• Clapton, J. (2008). Seeking inclusion: Understanding moral spaces. Paper presented at People with intellectual disabilities: Citizens of the world, the 13th IASSID International Congress Cape Town 25-30 August 2008.
• Clapton, J. (2008). Ethically transforming inclusion: from being `in? or `out? to being integral. Paper presented at People with intellectual disabilities: Citizens of the world, the 13th IASSID International Congress Cape Town 25-30 August 2008
• Clapton, J. (2008). Inclusion, Illusion or Confusion. The implementation of individualised funding for people with intellectual disability. The Third Annual Roundtable on Intellectual Disability Policy, 24th October, 2008, La Trobe University.
• Clapton, J. (2008). 'Care': Moral concept or mere organisational suffix? Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. (Special Issue on Managerialism and intellectual disability), 52 (7), 573-580.
• Clapton, J. & Knox, M. (2007). The right to a home ? the impact of service provision for people with an intellectual disability in their home. Paper presented at the ASSID Conference Fremantle, 5-7 November, 2007
• Kendall, E., Muenchberger, H., and Clapton, J. (2007). Trends in Rehabilitation in Australia: Time to revive the humanitarian core. Disability and Rehabilitation, 29(10), 817-823.
• Kendall, E. and Clapton, J. (2006) Time for a Shift in Australian Rehabilitation? Disability and Rehabilitation, 28 (17), 1097 - 1101.
• Clapton, J. (2006). Burden, bioethics and intellectual disability: Exploring Burdensome Concepts, Griffith Health Conference, Gold Coast, Dec, 2006.
• Clapton, J. (2006). `Ethics & Practice: A relationship to be managed or discovered?? Presented with Colleen Geyer, Uniting Care Australia and Uniting Missions National Conference, Brisbane , 26-28 March, 2006
• Clapton, J. (2006). ?We may have to use explosives yet but it will be a dangerous operation? (drawing on an analogy of the trapped Tasmanian miners). Lock `Them? Up: Disability and Mental Illness Aren?t Crimes Conference, Brisbane17-19 May, 2006. Invited Keynote Address.
• Clapton, J. (2005). The In?s and Out?s of Community, Ethics and Regional Participation, Disability and Rural Practices, Lismore Sept 2005
• Clapton, J. (2005). Crafting Conceptual Research for Community Change, ASSID conference, Auckland, Oct 2005
• Clapton, J. (2004). Where?s there?s a motif there?s a method. IASSID International Conference, Montpelier, France. June 2004
• Clapton, J. (2004). `Care?: Moral concept or merely an organisational suffix? IASSID International Conference, Montpelier, France. June 2004
• Clapton, J. (2004). Burden and Bioethics: Discussing Burdensome Concepts. IASSID International Conference, Montpelier, France. June 2004
• Clapton, J. (2004). Burden, Bioethics and Disability: Discussing Burdensome Concepts., International Bioethics Assoc International Conference, Sydney Nov 2004
• Clapton, J. (2004). Let?s Talk About Burden (invited), University of Otago Bioethics Group, as a visiting scholar to the Donald Beasley Institute, Dunedin. Oct 2004
• Clapton, J. (2004). Burden, Bioethics and Disability (invited), QUT Ethics Seminar Series presentation, Brisbane, Oct 2004
• Clapton, J. (2003). Ethics of re-membering and remembering: Considering disability and biotechnology. New Zealand Bioethics Journal (Special issue on disability and bioethics), 4 (2), 21 - 31.

Book Chapters

• Clapton, J. (2008). Ethics of Re-membering and remembering: Considering disability and biotechnology. In N. Sunderland, P. Graham, P. Isaacs and B. McKenna (Eds.), Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Clapton, J. (2005). The quilter's journal: Reflecting on 'what is inclusion?' Witnesses to Change: Families, Learning Difficulties and History (Ed.). London: Open University Press.
• Clapton, J. (2004). Disability, Ethics and Biotechnology: Where are we now? In C. Newell and A. Calder (Eds.), Voices in Disability and Spirituality from the Land Down Under (pp. 21-31). New York: The Haworth Pastoral Press.

Book

• Clapton, J. (2009). A Transformatory Ethic of Inclusion. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.