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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.

This year for the first time the Institute was able to award top-up bursaries to UNSW students registered for a higher degree by research.

Concerns about the prioritisation of disabled people, or lack of it, have rumbled throughout the pandemic.

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

In the past month the DIIU has been able to reach out to the disability research community across UNSW and beyond in some exciting ways.

In May, the DIIU welcomed Dr Georgia van Toorn as a postdoctoral fellow within the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-making and Society (ADMS).

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

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.
 

May each year marks two days of significance to those interested in equality and justice: the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), on 17 May, and 

The past month has seen growing concern about how Australia’s coronavirus vaccination programme is currently failing people with disability.

Although short, the Easter break meant that early April was relatively quiet for the DIIU. Shortly before that, however, we were able to present our first webinar of 2021.

On paper at least, Australia’s coronavirus vaccination programme prioritizes people living in specialist disability and aged care settings in phase 1a, and shortly after people with certain disabilities and health conditions in phase 1b.

Controversial proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have drawn a lot of attention in the media and from disability advocacy organisations.