September 2008 - August 2009
August 2009
Visitors to the Centre included Vasilica Stamatin, Babes-Bolyai University (Romania).
July 2009
Angharad Beckett and Nick Ellison (Sociology and Social Policy) hosted a dissemination day for researchers and teachers to discuss findings from the ESRC-funded project Disability Equality in English Primary Schools (DEEPS). An end of project conference is planned for 15 September.
CDS hosted a two-day research summer school event for respesentatives of disabled people's organsiations from European countries to develop proposals for future research collabroations arising from the EuRADE project.
Congratulations to all of our students graduating from the University this month.
June 2009
Anna Lawson (Law) and Alison Sheldon (Sociology and Social Policy) travelled to Ecuador to co-host a conference on Latin American Perspectives on disability as part of the British Academy link programme project.
Representatives of disabled people's organsiations met with key stakeholders in academic research, research policy-makers, funders, and the European Commission for a dissemination conference in Brussels arising from the FP7 EuRADE project.
Mark Priestley chaired the plenary discussion at the 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.
May 2009
Work was completed on the HEFCE-funded research project concerning Higher Education Provision and Support for Disabled Students.
The 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.
Allan Sutherland (Edward Lear Foundation) presented this month's guest seminar on 'The other tradition: from personal politics to disability arts'.
April 2009
Academics, theatre practitioners and representatives of the disability arts movement met in Leeds for the last of three workshops in the AHRC-funded project on the Performance of Disability Histories.
Sonali Shah and Mark Priestley presented papers at the Nordic Network on Disability Research conference in Nyborg (Denmark).
Visitors to the Centre included Iren Åhlund and Magnus Tideman as part of an annual visit by staff and students from Halmstad University (Sweden)
March 2009
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.
Professor 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?'
Welcome to Anna Jennings (University College Dublin) who joins the Centre as a visiting research fellow for three months. Visitors to the Centre this month also included Dag Helge Moldenhagen (Diakonhjemmet University College, Norway).
February 2009
Welcome to Dr Sarah Woodin, who joins the Centre as a Research Fellow supporting two projects - the Office for Disability Issues Rapid Evidence Assessment and the Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED).
Welcome to Anna Jennings, University College Dublin (Ireland) who joins the Centre as an international visiting research fellow for three months, and Angelo Marra, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) who joins us for six months.
Hitomi Honda (World Vision) presented this month's guest seminar on 'Disability mainstreaming in the development process'.
January 2009
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.
Representatives of more than 30 disabled people's organisations, from 13 countries, met with academics and policy makers in Brussels at the launch of the EuRADE project consultation survey, hosted by the European Parliament and the European Disability Forum.
Visitors to the Centre included a two-week study visit by Dr Emma Pearson (Macquarie University, Australia).
December 2008
Two new books were published this month: Anna Lawson's Disability and Equality Law in Britain: The role of Reasonable Adjustment, and Sonali Shah's, Young Disabled People: Aspirations, Choices and Constraints
Congratulations to Julie Ricketts who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 'The making of a Jamaican disability policy'
In celebration of International Day of Disabled People, Colin Barnes introduced a film screening and discussion of 'Todd Browning's 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).
November 2008
Mark Harrison (University of East Anglia) presented this month's visiting seminar entitled, 'Disability: Still Excluded from the Development Agenda? Messages from the disability knowledge and research agenda'.
PhD student 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’.
Anna Lawson travelled to Germany. Mark Priestley presented an invited lecture to the Nordic REASSESS PhD course in Oslo (Norway)
October 2008
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'
The School of English hosted a visiting lecture by Robert McRuer (George Washington University, USA) entitled 'Re-presenting Disability: Million Dollar Baby, Tropic Thunder, and Anti-National Sexual Positions'.
Welcome to Liz Walker (University of Newcastle, Australia) who will spend this semester in Leeds on a visiting studentship, based in the School of Fine Art.
September 2008
Twenty staff, research students and visiting fellows represented Leeds at the 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.
More than 50 former students and staff celebrated 15 years of Disability Studies teaching at Leeds at an alumni event this month. The event included presentations by Professors Colin Barnes and Mark Priestley and Drs Alison Sheldon and Laura Hemingway, with messages of support from past examiners and students unable to attend on the day.
Welcome to Linzie Carlin, Bassey Ebenso, Gabrielle Mastin and Jenny Fellows who begin their doctoral research projects this year.