July has been a busy month for the UNSW Disability Innovation Institute, with many of us attending conferences or other gatherings in different parts of the world.
This month we spoke to Institute Associate Dr Scott Brown, Assistive Technologies Lead at the UNSW Art & Design Creative Robotics Lab about his recent project, Creating Welcoming and Inclusive Campuses, which created an autism-friendly space o
Disability featured strongly at the biennial World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) and the satellite conference on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, held in Basel, Switzerland from 1
The UNSW Disability Innovation Institute teamed up with the UNSW Library and Art Collection as part of their collaboration with Studio A, Trophy Dreams. Studio A is a supported art
It has been good to see life returning to the UNSW campus over the last few months, post the various COVID lockdowns but still with measures in place to maximise everyone's safety.
The Institute's Professor Iva Strnadová and Emeritus Professor Leanne Dowse, along with Dr Joanne Danker, Dr Brydan Lenne, Julie Loblinzk, Dennis Alonzo, Scott Eacott and Institute Associate Michelle Tso, collaborated with 24 schools and with the
The NSW Department of Education engaged the Institute's Academic Lead Education Professor Iva Strnadová and its Emeritus Professor Leanne Dowse, along with Dr Joanne Danker and Institute Associate Michelle Tso, to review literature on evidence-bas
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.