Frequent colleague of the Institute and lived experience researchers and advocate Julie Loblinzk (centre left, above) has been awarded the 2022 J Moss Award by Self Advocacy Sydney in recognition of her 'outstanding work in the field of intellectu
Our Academic Leads and Associates have been very busy over the past couple of years, and some of their work has paid off in the form of recently published journal articles.
After the long Christmas and New Year (and summer) break, the UNSW Disability Innovation Institute is busy once again, with a full program of events and communications in the coming months, and plans for producing more resources available to the U
The UNSW Disability Innovation Institute's Academic Lead Engagement Rosemary Kayess spoke to the First Nations People Strategic Advisory Group at the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability in her
It’s a little early in December to be doing a retrospective view over the past 12 months, and in any case we have plans for a full-scale Annual Review of 2021, to be available early next year.
Institute Director Prof. Jackie Leach Scully has been announced as a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australian Health Ethics Committee 2021-2024.
The Federal Government has announced $12.5 million in funding to fully establish the National Disability Research Partnership, which Institute Director Jackie Leach Scully has been involved with as a member of its working party.
This time of year sees an odd change in pace, as some activities slow down before the long summer break while others become frantically busy in an attempt to finish them before the end of the year.
The Institute’s Emeritus Professor Leanne Dowse, alongside other UNSW colleagues, recently completed a report for the Australian Government’s Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
The Institute is welcoming a visitor: Alice Bennett, a student from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), is completing a placement with us as part of her Masters in Cultural Leadership.
Congratulations to the Institute's Academic Lead, Professor Iva Strnadová, on the publication of the sixth edition of Inclusion in Action, which she co-edited with Professors Michael Arthur-Kelly and Phillip Foreman from Newcastle Un
In Australia and globally, the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine rollout remain at the forefront of the news. This is especially the case for anyone involved in disability issues.
For those of us in Sydney, as the number of people singly and doubly dosed with the COVID vaccination rise there is some sense of emerging from the lockdown tunnel.
