Disability-Studies@Leeds... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:25:57 GMT Feed43 Proxy/1.0 (www.feed43.com) 360 1642950253c1496bb224d7376ac8cf86 Findings from the Evaluation of Provision and Support for Disabled Students in Higher Education were published by the Hi... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Evaluation of Provision and Support for Disabled Students in Higher Education were published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

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]]> 4c5ae8f13155fe10aebe1a5698c5f3b9 Welcome to Vasi Stamatin who joins the Centre as a visiting PhD student for six months from Babes-Bolyai University (Rom... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> 93381e95b8e0964a29635e25295c2d9f Congratulations to all of our Disability MA students who graduate this month. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> 6d1971f8b2e70bad5876ffe22c78f09e Representatives from 27 countries joined European Commission staff for the second annual meeting of the ANED network. Ma... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm ANED network. Mark Priestley (Sociology and Social Policy) presented ANED evidence on employment policies to the European Economic and Social Committee, and made a plenary speech on independent living to the European Day of Disabled People conference in Brussels.

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]]> 2cb5a8f056d25b365ec38e2f9fbf5a15 Sonali Shah (Sociology and Social Policy) hosted a dissemination conference combining themes from the AHRC Beyond Text w... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm AHRC Beyond Text workshop project and the 'Time of Our Lives' project.

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]]> 926350b5656d9a7a9931aa5a527da543 Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University) presented this month's guest seminar on 'Disability, International Deve... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University) presented this month's guest seminar on 'Disability, International Development and the Majority world: critical concerns for a global disability studies'.

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]]> 6c2a003321ff0384303df5fff17b585c Mark Priestley, Sarah Woodin and Anna Lawson attended the second annual meeting of the Academic Network of European Disa... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) in Brussels.

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]]> 4123cc9ed6eaeef6a66d4551408246b2 A new report was published for the Office for Disability Issues assessing research evidence in support of the UK Governm... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm research evidence in support of the UK Government's Independent Living Strategy. Sarah Woodin (Sociology and Social Policy) and Bryan Matthews (Transport Studies) presented the findings to the ODI Evidence Day in London.

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]]> 26928bd994d4a117cd91c84f473ae072 Dr Alison Wilde (Univeristy of York) presented this month's guest seminar: 'Who do we want to be? Disability, impairment... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Dr Alison Wilde (Univeristy of York) presented this month's guest seminar: 'Who do we want to be? Disability, impairment and cultural representation'

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]]> 5264e97e9c7cdbd20f46febb0e0945ff A short video called 'Performing Lives' was produced, highlighting process and findings from the AHRC Beyond Text worksh... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm short video called 'Performing Lives' was produced, highlighting process and findings from the AHRC Beyond Text workshops

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]]> b3b676a4128513d0a4ada0ba986fb29b Dr Bill Armer (University of Leeds) presented this month's seminar on 'A Developing Social Conscience, or Applied Eugeni... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Dr Bill Armer (University of Leeds) presented this month's seminar on 'A Developing Social Conscience, or Applied Eugenics? A brief overview of selected UK social policies since 1902'

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]]> 878d9adc7b8dc66c6dd931d8862b2311 Welcome to David Shannon (Law), Holly Jones (Behavioural Sciences), Linzi Carlin and Gordon Cardona (Sociology and Socia... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> 62fc17a63fbf8cceea0525813a0796d3 Welcome to Professor Masatsugu Hori, Kumamoto Gakuen University (Japan) who joins the Centre as a visiting research fell... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> ac8daddcbcc8258533114517192a35d3 Key findings from the ESRC-funded project Disability Equality in English Primary Schools were reported in an article in ... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Disability Equality in English Primary Schools were reported in an article in Disability Now.

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]]> 0e239e17dbce66eebecb081a4ac7f02f Visitors to the Centre included Yumika Shirase, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (Japan). http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> 4a8ad25a50d4e9d6350d0e93e1937c2b Visitors to the Centre included Vasilica Stamatin, Babes-Bolyai University (Romania). http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> e56feeef231f52dc5e19213dd6bed389 Angharad Beckett and Nick Ellison (Sociology and Social Policy) hosted a dissemination day for researchers and teachers ... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Disability Equality in English Primary Schools (DEEPS). An end of project conference is planned for 15 September.

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]]> beec8eff82b0a7dab0be882f8a2bf48e CDS hosted a two-day research summer school event for respesentatives of disabled people's organsiations from European c... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> 9c03060d888103c9708025b6a1ac726c Congratulations to all of our students graduating from the University this month. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> 6e9c4380846490c997b9c11b418ebe63 Anna Lawson (Law) and Alison Sheldon (Sociology and Social Policy) travelled to Ecuador to co-host a conference on Latin... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm British Academy link programme project.

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]]> 4040515246f89bc0d72b3cd5b2f74f27 Representatives of disabled people's organsiations met with key stakeholders in academic research, research policy-maker... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm a dissemination conference in Brussels arising from the FP7 EuRADE project.

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]]> 4b22a1811ac4968ea1018df17de947ae Mark Priestley chaired the plenary discussion at the Symposium on the legal capacity of persons with disabilities in lig... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Symposium on the legal capacity of persons with disabilities in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), hosted by the European Consortium of Foundations on Human Rights and Disability and the European Disability Forum, in Brussels.

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]]> c522b14881f0b11a40df824c7aba519d Work was completed on the HEFCE-funded research project concerning Higher Education Provision and Support for Disabled S... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Higher Education Provision and Support for Disabled Students.

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]]> 676da58654a698c23bf289fa8d5acc07 The Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) project is commissioning reports on the development and imple... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) project is commissioning reports on the development and implementation of support for independent living in 29 European countries. The second meeting of the ANED Scientific Board was held in Brussels.

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]]> fed3af3f4ae90d0a9012559ef320e106 Allan Sutherland (Edward Lear Foundation) presented this month's guest seminar on 'The other tradition: from personal po... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Edward Lear Foundation) presented this month's guest seminar on 'The other tradition: from personal politics to disability arts'.

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]]> 0942aae15918db3ce6530eb763d291f0 Academics, theatre practitioners and representatives of the disability arts movement met in Leeds for the last of three ... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm AHRC-funded project on the Performance of Disability Histories.

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]]> 54a582bea2abe31d7d2da5a99af2139a Sonali Shah and Mark Priestley presented papers at the Nordic Network on Disability Research conference in Nyborg (Denma... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Nordic Network on Disability Research conference in Nyborg (Denmark).

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]]> a7357f2dc2f8044726db95ede450a3cf Visitors to the Centre included Iren Åhlund and Magnus Tideman as part of an annual visit by staff and students from Hal... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> d8e18c45fd245f4a12c1f82352532b3e The Second European Conference on Multidimensional Equality Law was hosted by the Centre for European Law and Legal Stud... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm The Second European Conference on Multidimensional Equality Law was hosted by the Centre for European Law and Legal Studies, in association with the Centre for Disability Studies, including key papers on intersections with disability.

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]]> 7d62ec7e24df8b7abda85800efbdabb1 Professor Nora Groce (University College London) presented this month's guest seminar on 'Rethinking disability and deve... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Nora Groce (University College London) presented this month's guest seminar on 'Rethinking disability and development: what dialogue should we be having with global health and development organizations?'

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]]> 00fff2d39c9c292e651a161592ce972d Welcome to Anna Jennings (University College Dublin) who joins the Centre as a visiting research fellow for three months... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> bf736c3671ddd4922834870a4dd11283 Welcome to Dr Sarah Woodin, who joins the Centre as a Research Fellow supporting two projects - the Office for Disabilit... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Office for Disability Issues Rapid Evidence Assessment and the Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED).

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]]> 85609d156867474540ff440e8216abb0 Welcome to Anna Jennings, University College Dublin (Ireland) who joins the Centre as an international visiting research... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> d6c636c238822e0e78bf7cb500c8474d Hitomi Honda (World Vision) presented this month's guest seminar on 'Disability mainstreaming in the development process... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm World Vision) presented this month's guest seminar on 'Disability mainstreaming in the development process'.

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]]> 364079b9421a91051d2eb2e732c17b59 Sarah Francis (School of Classics) hosted a seminar event on ‘Redefining Disability in the Ancient World’ in collaborati... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Sarah Francis (School of Classics) hosted a seminar event on ‘Redefining Disability in the Ancient World’ in collaboration with the University of Kent, focusing on understandings of disability in the Greco-Roman world. 

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]]> 2226b79177838c659680772b453864cd Representatives of more than 30 disabled people's organisations, from 13 countries, met with academics and policy makers... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm EuRADE project consultation survey, hosted by the European Parliament and the European Disability Forum.

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]]> 01f1a5bbcafa8bd780e8ec47cdeaa94e Visitors to the Centre included a two-week study visit by Dr Emma Pearson (Macquarie University, Australia). http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> 06598068efad81fe2168e04268cdb4e6 Two new books were published this month: Anna Lawson's Disability and Equality Law in Britain: The role of Reasonable Ad... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Disability and Equality Law in Britain: The role of Reasonable Adjustment, and Sonali Shah's, Young Disabled People: Aspirations, Choices and Constraints

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]]> 96df8180f6c7c526c5545e0e31bc17bd Congratulations to Julie Ricketts who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 'The making of a Jamaican disability polic... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm The making of a Jamaican disability policy'

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]]> d20a8463badf675058ae6f116f8f185f In celebration of International Day of Disabled People, Colin Barnes introduced a film screening and discussion of 'Todd... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Freaks' and Leonard Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago) presented a visiting lecture in the School of English. Mark Priestley represented CDS at the European Day of Disabled People in Brussels (Belgium).

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]]> 673050decc8922bd0d6058a784d18b47 Mark Harrison (University of East Anglia) presented this month's visiting seminar entitled, 'Disability: Still Excluded ... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> e0a48b2ca13c9dbc44795e5706129fde PhD student Beatriz Miranda (Ecuador) was awarded second place in the Jo Campling Memorial Prize 2008 for a student essa... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Beatriz Miranda (Ecuador) was awarded second place in the Jo Campling Memorial Prize 2008 for a student essay on the theme of ‘ethics and social welfare’.

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]]> 387c68eb636659e077cebe2f3163a1ef Anna Lawson travelled to Germany. Mark Priestley presented an invited lecture to the Nordic REASSESS PhD course in Oslo ... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm -- Delivered by Feed43 service

]]> 9e72997c2a095e24a921acca383b7666 Margaret Price (Spelman College, USA) presented this month's visiting seminar, entitled 'Assaults on the Ivory Tower: Re... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Margaret Price (Spelman College, USA) presented this month's visiting seminar, entitled 'Assaults on the Ivory Tower: Representations of madness in the discourse of media school shootings'

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]]> 2b4fb8e96170bbd659a975073bc4b25f The School of English hosted a visiting lecture by Robert McRuer (George Washington University, USA) entitled 'Re-presen... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Robert McRuer (George Washington University, USA) entitled 'Re-presenting Disability: Million Dollar Baby, Tropic Thunder, and Anti-National Sexual Positions'.

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]]> d329755e610a2e7bb616fe860ee5c2b5 Welcome to Liz Walker (University of Newcastle, Australia) who will spend this semester in Leeds on a visiting studentsh... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm University of Newcastle, Australia) who will spend this semester in Leeds on a visiting studentship, based in the School of Fine Art.

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]]> 76941284cf0a3ddea7215bdecf8d76e4 Twenty staff, research students and visiting fellows represented Leeds at the 4th Biennial UK Disability Studies Confere... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm 4th Biennial UK Disability Studies Conference (held at Lancaster University, UK) and presented a total of 12 papers or posters. The FP7 EuRADE project funded three observers from European disabled people's organisations, and the British Academy Latin America project funded delegates from Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico.

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]]> 49251358b0a6e8a79e876f2618c281b1 More than 50 former students and staff celebrated 15 years of Disability Studies teaching at Leeds at an alumni event th... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm messages of support from past examiners and students unable to attend on the day.

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]]> a6441d5ac794c0c2a4a528e0be330f1a Welcome to Linzie Carlin, Bassey Ebenso, Gabrielle Mastin and Jenny Fellows who begin their doctoral research projects t... http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/news.htm Linzie Carlin, Bassey Ebenso, Gabrielle Mastin and Jenny Fellows who begin their doctoral research projects this year.

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