This month, professors Jackie Leach Scully and Terry Cumming from the Institute were invited to take part in a discussion on disability and disasters on the UNSW Institute for Global Development (IGD)'s podcast Thinking on Development
The UNSW Disability Innovation Institute has launched its Associates Program, which we hope will benefit everyone involved. Through the Program, the Institute seeks to invigorate disability research and further nourish collaboration at UNSW.
Earlier this month, Institute Director Professor Jackie Leach Scully took part in a discussion of Deaf culture for the Sydney Opera House's Antidote Festival.
The UNSW Disability Innovation Institute is working with UNSW IT and with teaching support to produce guidelines to ensure that online gatherings are inclusive to people with disability.
As the Sydney lockdown continues and pandemic measures spread to the rest of the country, most people are working from home again. Some of us at UNSW have not been on campus for weeks or months.
The UNSW Disability Innovation Institute joins with a number of international disabled people's organisations to express concern about people with disability in Afghanistan.
Here we are again in a Sydney midwinter, and once more in lockdown. Like almost everyone else the UNSW Disability Innovation Institute team are all working from home again, and it does sometimes feel like Groundhog Day.
Rosemary Kayess and Jackie Leach Scully from the UNSW Disability Innovation Institute have worked alongisde Therese Sands from Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) to produce a response to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and
The possibility of manipulating the genetic makeup of living organisms has been discussed for many decades but always remained in the realm of science fiction, largely because the available methods were inefficient and unpredictable.
Last month we were able to break the news that colleagues from the DIIU and from Sydney Children’s Hospital successfully applied for funding from NSW Ministry of Health to support research into the provision of genetic services to people with
This month we interviewed Emeritus Professor Leanne Dowse, DIIU's Associate Director and Chair in Intellectual Disability and Behaviour Support at UNSW.
The DIIU’s new research project, funded by the NSW Ministry of Health, brings our expertise in inclusive methods to an emerging area of interest: genomic healthcare and disability.
