About Erin

Dr Erin Louise Whittle is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Disability Studies. She has an extensive research background in gender, intellectual disability and access to services. Her PhD, completed at UNSW Sydney, examined access to mental health services for women with intellectual disability.

She has previously worked at the Department of Developmental Disability and Neuropsychiatry, UNSW (3DN), the Black Dog Institute UNSW, and Faces in the Street, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. She has a particular expertise in qualitative and mixed method research, in particular using various qualitative methods and the analysis of large scale lined data sets. She has an interest in inclusive research methods and has been a part of the CDS Inclusive Research Network since 2021.

Qualifications

PhD, BA (Hons) USYD, Masters of Public Health UNSW