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Lectures and Seminar Series Archive

14/04/11 - Seminar by Michael Browne

Michael Browne (Doctoral Fellow, Child and Family Research Centre, NUIG): “Support networks for children with disabilities”

24/03/11 - Public Lecture by Professor Hilary Brown

Professor Hilary Brown (Professor of Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University)

“Violence and Abuse Against People with Disabilities”

09/03/11 - Seminar by Dr. Suzanne Guerin

Dr. Suzanne Guerin (Acting Director, Centre for Disability Studies, UCD): “Research on ageing and intellectual disability”

16/02/11 - Public Lecture by Dr. Helen Carr and Prof. Caroline Hunter

Dr. Helen Carr (Senior Lecturer, University of Kent, Law School) and Professor Caroline Hunter (Barrister, University of York, Law School

“Paternalism? Risk? Contract? Rights? Are judicial approaches to adult social care in the UK at a dead-end?”

 

28/01/11 - Seminar by Prof. Margaret Barry

 

Professor Margaret Barry (Professor of Health Promotion and Public Health and Director of he Health Promotion Research Centre, NUIG): "Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing: Concepts, Practice and Policy". Presentation available here.

21/01/11 - Public Lecture by Dr. Christine Linehan

Dr. Christine Linehan (Senior Research Officer, National Disability Authority)

“Developing an Indicator Set to Monitor the National Disability Strategy”

13/12/10 - Lifecourse Institute Seminar by Dr Ignacio Campoy Cervera

Dr Ignacio Campoy Cervera (University of King Carlos III, Madrid) with response by Danielle Kennan (Child and Family Research Centre).

“Rethinking the Concept of ‘Best Interests’ of Children, a radical by-product of the UN Disability Convention”

03/12/10 - Seminar by Mary Kealy

Mary Kealy (CEO, Brothers of Charity Clare): “Transformation of Support Delivery for People with Disabilities”- Event Flyer

KeyRing Living Support Network Seminar - Event Flyer

24/11/10 - Seminar by Sandra Corr

Sandra Corr (Service User and Researcher): “Attitudes Towards People with Disabilities – A Research Project by Sandra Corr”

15/10/10 - Lifecourse Institute Seminar by Dr Cedric Bryant

Dr Cedric Bryant (Chief Science Officer, American Council on Exercise) - Event Flyer

“Just the Facts: Answers to Common Health & Fitness Questions”

22/09/10 - Lifecourse Institute Seminar by Padraig Flynn, Terry Stewart & Dr. Arthur O'Reilly

Padraig Flynn (Ireland’s former EU Commissioner in the Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs), Terry Stewart (Former Director, European Commission, Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs) and Dr Arthur O’Reilly (former Chief Executive of the National Rehabilitation Board and the National Disability Authority)

“EU Policy Entrepreneurship – How EU disability policy was made and the lessons for the Lifecourse.”

 

22/09/10 - Seminar by Feliza Ali

Feliza Ali (Disability Programme Co-coordinator with the Bolivian field team of development agency International Service): “Disability Rights in Bolivia ”. Full information here.

30/04/10 - Seminar by Dr. Aisling Parkes

Dr. Aisling Parkes, Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, UCC on “Not Seen or Heard: Children with Disabilities, Special Needs Schools and the Ryan Report”.

Dr. Parkes presented a seminar on the rights of children, as advocated by the international UN treaty and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and critically examined Ireland’s own track record of ensuring the rights of children. Her presentation focused on the Irish government’s implementation plan of protecting children’s rights in the wake of the Ryan Report – in particular their focus on an increased role for social workers, a Guardian ad Litum, HSE ’exit interviews’, and a ’consultation exercise’ for those in care. There was also a proposal for a rewording of Constitution, which makes reference to equality and rights of child’s voice to be heard. However, she notes that this was published in July, only 2 months after the Ryan Report, suggesting that there was not much time for consultation and planning.

26/02/10 - Seminar by Edel Tierney

Edel Tierney, Director of Research and Policy Development, National Federation of Voluntary Bodies on “The Implementation of a National Intellectual Disability Research Strategy -opportunities and challenges”. The full version of the Powerpoint Presentation used for the seminar can be accessed online.

The National Federation of Voluntary Bodies published its Intellectual Disability Research Strategy in 2008. In this seminar, Edel explains how the strategy was developed, what the main priorities are, and what progress has been made to date in the various research areas. A particular focus was placed on research into living options and relationships for people with intellectual disabilities. Edel also discussed the work of the Inclusive Research Network – an organisation of people with intellectual disabilities who have come together to decide their own research agenda and to do research on topics which affect their lives.

29/01/10 - Seminar by Dr. James Cunningham

Dr. James Cunningham, Director of Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, NUIG on “Academic Entrepreneurship: The Role and Activities of Principal Investigators of Publicly Funded Research”

Dr Cunningham presented a seminar on his recent research examining academic entrepreneurship within Ireland and best-practice internationally. In particular, his presentation focused on the Role and Activities of Principal Investigators (PI’s) of Publicly Funded Research. In other jurisdictions, PI’s have support mechanisms to foster best practice. However, in Ireland, PI’s have been defined primarily on their previous publication track record, with little tangible support provision built into place. As a result, PI’s can become more susceptible to pressure and often do not have the skills to manage large-scale projects.

18/12/09 - Seminar by Professor Gearóid Ó Laighin

Professor Gearóid Ó Laighin, Head of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, NUIG on “A possible role for NUI Galway in facilitating the development of assistive technology products for persons with disabilities?”

This seminar discussed how accessible technology can improve the lives of people with disabilities and Gearóid talked about how the National University of Ireland, Galway, can contribute to developing affordable accessible technology. Many types of accessible technology devices are relatively simple to make but are very expensive to buy. Gearóid described the various stages of product design, testing, manufacture and distribution and demonstrated how the National University of Ireland, Galway, could carry out many aspects of this work. He also showed how producing these products could be a valuable source of income for the university as well as a resource for the local community.

20/11/09 - Seminar by Dr. Joanne McCarthy

Dr. Joanne McCarthy, Senior Executive Officer – Policy and Research, Disability Federation of Ireland on “Ensuring that Research can Impact on Public Policy: Challenges and Achievements”

In this seminar, Joanne summarised the main policy and fiscal challenges facing the disability sector in Ireland. Of particular concern was the financial mismanagement of funds, in particular the traceability of the ’multi-annual funding’ which was made available to the disability sector. Throughout each of the policy challenges, she identified ways in which research can impact on public policy. Regrettably, the podcast is not available for viewing.

30/10/09 - Seminar by Dr. Gemma Donnelly-Cox

Dr. Gemma Donnelly-Cox,Academic Director, Centre for Nonprofit Management, TCD on “Civil Society Organisation Governance: Issues in the current context”

Dr Donnelly-Cox’s seminar examined what has been happening within the Irish voluntary sector in the wake of the current Post-Celtic Tiger economic climate. There is now significant pressure on the sector, in particular because of the historical reliance on the state for support. However, she makes the point that it is very easy when there’s a dramatic change to look at the financial crisis as a marking point.  The reality is the whole landscape has been changing for some time, including the Charities Act 2009, increasing heterogeneity, greater demand for more professionalized services, role tensions between advocate and service provider, and the ’Value for Money’ review.  She concludes by advocating more transparent relationships with organisations’ beneficiaries, and identified ways that organisations have innovatively found new ways of operating.

The full version of the Powerpoint Presentation used for the seminar can be accessed online.

02/10/09 - Seminar by Eilionóir Flynn

Below is a video podcast of the first seminar in the CDLP Seminar Series 2009-2010, delivered by Eilionóir Flynn, on on “Advocacy for People with Disabilities – An Innovative Enforcement Mechanism for Human Rights”. Due to a technical error in recording, this video clip does not contain the last four slides of the presentation. However, the full version of the Powerpoint Presentation used for the seminar can be accessed online.

Advocacy can help people with disabilities to understand their rights, as advocates provide people with relevant, accessible information about their entitlements and can take further action to help people to enforce these rights. In this seminar, Eilionóir proposes that since advocacy aims to enforce rights, it should be regulated in accordance with human rights principles, such as: access to justice, autonomy, dignity, inclusion and participation. The Irish advocacy system is examined (Personal Advocacy Service and community and voluntary advocacy organisations funded by the Citizens Information Board) and recommendations for reform in light of human rights principles are proposed.

11/09/2009 - Public Lecture by Professor Oddny Arnardottir

Professor Oddny Arnardottir, Reykjavik University, Iceland, co author of 'The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – European and Scandinavian Perspectives' gave a public lecture at NUI Galway on 11/09/2009, entitled: 'What does Equality Mean for Persons with Disabilities? Lessons from the new UN Treaty on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities'. A video podcast of the event is now online.

14/04/2008 - Public Lecture by Professor Jerome Bickenbach

It was with great pleasure that the Centre for Disability Law and Policy hosted a public lecture on April 14th 2008 entitled ’The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - New Dawn or False Hopes?’. Guest Lecturer, Professor Jerome Bickenbach, kindly gave the lecture and discussed the concept of equality that underpins the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Pictured right is Professor Jerome Bickenbach and Professor Gerard Quinn (Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway).

The Centre for Disability Law and Policy would like to sincerely thank all of those who attended the lecture. The materials from the event are available as follows:

• Video from the lecture, please download here: http://videostream.nuigalway.ie/disability_law
• PowerPoint presentation given by Professor Bickenbach
• Full text of The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Professor Bickenbach’s biographical details

To facilitate disability access, the lecture materials have also been prepared in audio format (Robobraille documents) and plain text versions as follows:

• Professor Bickenbach PowerPoint Presentation in Robobraille ( MP3 audio file)
• UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Robobraille ( MP3 audio file)
• Plain text document of PowerPoint presentation.
• Plain text document of UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.