Christine Bigby AO has a long track record of working in partnership with disability support and advocacy organisations investigating the effectiveness of programs and practice to support the social inclusion of adults and older people with intellectual disabilities. She has led a team studying the practice of supported decision making since 2015 and a longitudinal study of the quality of support in group homes since 2009. She has published 10 books, 57 book chapters, 200 journal articles and numerous research reports. Together with colleagues at the Living with Disability Research Centre she has developed evidence based online training in Active Support, Frontline Practice Leadership, Supported Decision Making, Enabling Risk and Supporting Inclusion, as well as the Observing Practice Quality a tool for measuring the quality of support. She currently serves as president of the Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.