ORIMA Launches Disability Services Research Division

In Australia, full-service public sector consultancy ORIMA Research has launched a specialist Disability Services Research division (DSR), led by former National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) exec Tamara Reinisch.

ORIMA conducts studies to support public sector policy and programme initiatives, from offices in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane. Research specialities cover communications and marketing, client and stakeholder, employee, community, programme evaluation, policy development and programme management. The company also has a specialist Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander research team, which conducts culturally appropriate quant and qual research in metropolitan, regional and remote Australia.

The new DSR division will provide survey methodologies tailored to the disability sector, with research approach, design, analysis and reporting informed by disability sector advisors. According to ORIMA, the division will invest in R&D, sector collaboration and specialist skill development, in order to contribute to improving the wellbeing of people with disability by providing information and advice to inform public policy and service delivery.

Reinisch (pictured) joins after four years in the Markets and Providers Group at the NDIA, where she latterly served as Director, Growth and Innovation. Before this, she was Chief Adviser for Strategic Development to the Victoria Disability Services Commissioner; and Senior Adviser - Organisational Redesign at the Department of Human Services in Victoria; having earlier worked for the Department of Health & Human Services in Disability Client Services.

Web site: www.orima.com.au .