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Brigit Mirfin-Veitch (2020)Research Associate Professor

BA(Hons) PhD

Email brigit.mirfin-veitch@otago.ac.nz

Associate Professor Brigit Mirfin-Veitch is a Research Associate Professor with the Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies. As a sociologist, Brigit has a strong interest in understanding the social lives of people with learning (intellectual) disability and is committed to initiating and achieving social change through research.

Brigit's research covers a wide range of topics, but she is particularly focused on health and wellbeing, access to justice issues, and parenting by people with a learning disability. She is experienced in qualitative research methodologies, and regularly undertakes transformative evaluation projects, education, and advisory roles within the disability sector.

Brigit is also the Director of the Donald Beasley Institute and an Adjunct Associate Professor within the School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia (since 2018).

Brigit is currently supervising a number of PhD students, all pursuing disability-related doctoral research.

Publications

Hale, L., Jones, B. H., Dewes, O., Keown, S., Mirfin-Veitch, B., Wilkinson, A., Keen, D., Norris, P., McKinlay, E., Perry, M., … Trip, H., Ingham, T., & Longnecker, N. (2026). Taunakitanga Takitini, reframing self-management support for all in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protocol for a participatory case study program of research. JMIR Research Protocols, 15, e89658. doi: 10.2196/89658 Journal - Research Other

Bowden, N., Schluter, P. J., Asaka, U., Dacombe, J., Hii, J., Lee, J., Mirfin-Veitch, B., … Szymanska, K., … Vu, H., & Lawrence Lodge, R. (2025). Mortality risk of youth with neurodevelopmental conditions: An Aotearoa New Zealand nationwide birth cohort study. JAMA Pediatrics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.4335 Journal - Research Article

McKenzie, N., Mirfin-Veitch, B., Trip, H., & Conder, J. (2024). It's your death: You've got to say what you want! Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 68(7), (pp. 665). doi: 10.1111/jir.13166 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

McKenzie, N., Mirfin-Veitch, B., Trip, H., & Conder, J. (2024). My plan for a good life, right to the end: An accessible approach to advance care planning. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 49(4), 475-487. doi: 10.3109/13668250.2024.2362979 Journal - Research Article

Watene, R. F., Mirfin-Veitch, B., & Asaka, U. (2023). Disabled person-led monitoring of the UNCRPD in Aotearoa New Zealand: Maximising the potential of civil society in the implementation of Article 33.3. In S. Robinson & K. R. Fisher (Eds.), Research handbook on disability policy. (pp. 85-99). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781800373655.00014 Chapter in Book - Research

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