Our projects | Disability Innovation Institute

The Disability Innovation Institute carries out research funded by competitively awarded grants.

In addition, members of UNSW who have a formal association with the Institute often have their own research projects which contribute to the disability research community of UNSW.

The Institute has also given seed funding to a number of research groups across different Faculties at UNSW to support interdisciplinary, disability-inclusive research. You can read more about our seed funded projects here.

Current Projects

ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)

Automated Decision-Making (ADM) includes intelligent technologies in which computers make decisions, with varying levels of human oversight. These technologies have the potential to drive profound change across many areas of our lives.

Epigenetics and pregnancy care in Australia for socially marginalised women

Collaboration starting 2021 to examine how the science of epigenetics, producing new knowledge about the intergenerational transmission of health and disease, is shaping antenatal care in Australia.

TARGeT: Theories of Autonomy in Reproductive Genomic Technologies

Advances in DNA sequencing mean pregnant people are now offered information on a rapidly expanding array of potential disabilities and disabling conditions.

GeneEQUAL: Genomics education inclusive of people with intellectual disability

Collaboration starting 2021 to examine how the science of epigenetics, producing new knowledge about the intergenerational transmission of health and disease, is shaping antenatal care in Australia.

OrQA: Organ Quality Assessment

This technology is being developed to provide transplant surgeons with more information and support their assessment or organ suitability for the patient.

Disability Matters

A major six year multi-national project focused on disability, health and science research funded by the Wellcome Trust Award.

Past Projects

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Human rights implications of COVID-19 vaccine passports

This is an empirical ethics research project that aims to examine the potential impacts of a ‘vaccine passport’ using a human rights lens.

The study will identify the human rights impacts that the introduction of a vaccine passport could have on populations who experience vulnerability and/or marginalisation in the health context.