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Global PhD & Researchers Colloquium on Disability Law & Policy
The Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway, is pleased to host the first Global PhD & Researchers Colloquium on Disability Law & Policy 26-27 April 2010 at the Carlton Hotel in Galway City. The Colloquium will take place annually and will rotate to the other academic Centres thereafter. Photographs from the event have now been posted in our gallery.
The Colloquium is organised in association with a consortium of three leading national and international academic centers. The three centers are:
- The Centre for Disability Law and Policy (NUI Galway)
- The Burton Blatt Institute (Syracuse University, New York)
- The Richard Crossman Chair of Social Welfare & Social Planning, University of Haifa (Israel)
Programme
The Colloquium programme is available here. A booklet of Abstracts is available here. The programme is also available as an audio MP3 file. Over 60 papers have been selected to contribute to the following panel themes:
A:
The Right to Legal Capacity
B:
The Right to Independent Living
C:
Towards Effective National Strategies for the Implementation of the UNCRPD
D:
Definitions of Disability
E:
Civil Society – Nothing About Us Without Us
F:
Intersectionality of Disability: Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Age
G:
Employment Law & Policy
H:
Mental Health Law & Disability
I:
The Right to Inclusive Education
J:
Regional & Comparative Disability Law
K:
Bioethics & Disability
L:
Development Aid, Humanitarian Intervention & Disability
M:
The Right to Accessibility
There will also be a roundtable discussion where a group of leading researchers in the field of disability law and policy will discuss their research records, their involvement in policy entrepreneurship (putting research to work) and their advice for the next generation of disability law and policy researchers.
Colloquium Materials
As some individuals who presented at the colloquium event may wish to publish their work in due course, it should be noted that these materials are only for event attendees and
should not be circulated more widely. The CDLP would be most grateful if attendees could respect this please. If for access reasons you would like to obtain the materials as a Microsoft Word file, please contact contact Sinead Harrison at
nuigalway.ie">events.cdlp
nuigalway.ie.
Speedtext notes
Presentations & Papers
- Booklet of Abstracts
- Breda Casey: 'Supporting the Civic Engagement of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities through access to Inclusive 3rd Level Education'
- Iris Elliott: 'Civil Society Engagement with UN Treaties: inter-sectoral learning from women human rights activists in Ireland'
- Paul Emong: 'Implementation, Impact and Further Development of the Ugandan Disability Law at Higher Education'
- Xiao Junyong, Wang Jing, Chen Jiali: 'Employment Status and Legal Protection of Persons with Disabilities in China'
- Valerie Karr: 'International Perspectives of Persons with Disabilities on Human Rights, Self-Determination, and Quality of Life'
- Tabitha Collingbourne: 'Contradiction in Terms? The UK, socio-economic rights and Article 19 CRPD''
- Noelin Fox: 'Independent Living – the Potential of the European Court of Human Rights'
- Donal Rice: 'Legislating for Web 2.0 – implications for the revamp of the Irish Disability Act (2005)'
- Liz Brosnan: 'Why We Need To Learn Legalese: Human Rights Based Approach and the Principle of Mental Health Service User Involvement'
- Tirza Leibowitz: 'Living in the Community – Disentangling the Core Right'
- Sheelah Flatman Watson: 'Implementation of Equitable Enrolment Processes and Equality of Opportunity in Irish Primary Education Environments: the case of pupils with a diagnosis of an intellectual and/or pervasive developmental disability'
PhD Colloquium, 26 April 2010