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.
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.
