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Dr Martin Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Rehabilitation for the School of Health & Social Services at Massey University in Palmerston North. Martin's doctoral research was on the sociology of the body, specifically the paraplegic body and the ways traumatic paraplegics reintegrated body, self and society and this affected life changes and subjectivity. In 2007, Martin won HRC funding to carry out a longitudinal study into the transition from spinal unit to community for those with spinal cord impairment. The study will last for four years, cover all New Zealand and will be carried out with colleagues from the University of Otago's Injury Prevention Research Unit. Martin is editor of the New Zealand Journal of Disability Studies, a member of the Health Research Council's Injury & Rehabilitation Portfolio Advisory Group and was a Ministerial appointment to the National Ethics Advisory Committee, 2000-2007.
Kath McPherson
