{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260100240"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260100240","attributes":{"code":"DE260100240","administering-organisation":"The University of Sydney","announcement-administering-organisation":"The University of Sydney","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-07-01","anticipated-end-date":"2029-06-30","grant-summary":"Sex technology to support sexuality for people with physical disability. People with physical disability in care are denied their sexuality, but sex technology unlocks a future without sex stigma and limitations. This project aims to determine the role, ethics, and requirements of sex technology to support sexuality for this group. This project expects to create new knowledge in human-computer interaction, digital media studies, and design using a new method and framework that introduces queer theory. Expected project outcomes include new research methods co-designed with experts and people with lived experience and practical know-how about sex technology design, implementation, and governance. This should provide significant benefits, such as major new collaborations, awareness-raising, and demystification.","funding-current":531064.00,"funding-at-announcement":526855,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Adam","familyName":"Poulsen","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-0001-3894 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Adam","familyName":"Poulsen","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-0001-3894 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The University of Sydney","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The University of Sydney","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"NSW"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4608","name":"Human-Centred Computing","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"460806","name":"Human-Computer Interaction","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"470102","name":"Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"220407","name":"Human-Computer Interaction","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"230108","name":"Gender and Sexualities","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"280116","name":"Expanding Knowledge In Language, Communication and Culture","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Netherlands","Norway","United States of America"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"In Australian healthcare environments and services, people with physical disability are denied their sexuality. Sex technologies like smart vibrators, virtual reality pornography, romantic chatbots, and sex robots could empower this group to achieve sexual wellbeing, justice, pleasure, and health. Yet, little is known about sex technology use, attitudes, design, ethics, social impact, regulation, and governance in care. This DECRA develops a ground-breaking and taboo-busting research study that will uncover this information, pave a way forward to best design, regulate, and implement these technologies, and demystify stigma about the sexuality of people with physical disability that persists in care services and the public. New collaborations, ongoing consultation, and regular research-to-plain language translation of practical research insights will be established between care services, the sex technology industry, people with lived experience, community groups, and the general public. This project aligns with Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021–2031 by exposing new avenues to equitably meet each individual’s needs in care with emerging technologies. As the Government’s National Disability Insurance Scheme continues to dismantle funding for sex and intimacy support for people with physical disability, developing practical, meaningful, and sustainable alternatives is essential going forward."}}}