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September 2011 - August 2012

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August 2012

‘Changing Lives Changing Times’, a performance by students from the Cathedral Academy of Performing Arts and Cockburn School will be held at Cockburn High School (Leeds) on Wednesday 17 October to conclude the ESRC Performing Disability Histories project, and as a prelude to this year’s Disability History Month.

July 2012

Welcome to Prof Esther Raya Diez (University of La Rioja, Spain) who joins the Centre as a Visiting Professor for one month.

Congratulations to all our students who graduated in the University of Leeds degree ceremonies this month.

Sonali Shah travelled to Santiago (Chile) to present work from the ESRC performance project at the International Federation for Theatre Research conference.

June 2012

A major new online policy research resource was launched this month with the first release of DOTCOM (the Disability Online Tool of the Commission), based on the ANED research programme and providing public access to data on more than 1,500 disability policies in 34 European countries.

Ieva Eskyte, Betul Yalcin and Mark Priestley travelled to Madrid (Spain) for the second joint training event of the DREAM Initial Training Network project, hosted by our industrial partner Technosite.

May 2012

This month saw publication of The New Politics of Disablement by Mike Oliver and Colin Barnes

Welcome to Jamal Haji Mohammadi (University of Hamburg, Germany) who joins the Centre as a Visiting Researcher for three weeks.

Visitors to the Centre this month also included Dr Lenka Krhutova (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic).

April 2012

CDS hosted a national conference on The Future of Inclusive Education, arising from research conducted at Leeds and chaired Angharad Beckett. The event was attended by more than 100 academics, practitioners, disabled students and parents.

Welcome to Oliver Lewis, Director of the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (Budapest, Hungary) who becomes a visiting lecturer in the School of Law.

The British Sociological Association conference was held at Leeds this year and members of CDS participated.

March 2012

Mark Priestley represented CDS at the Office for Disability Issues roundtable consultation on updating the evidence base to support development of the British Government’s national Disability Strategy.

Dr Maria Berghs (University of York) presented this month’s CDS seminar on ‘The Symbolic Closure of ‘Disabled’ Memory in Sierra Leone’.

Colin Barnes, Simon Prideaux, Mark Priestley and Nick Ellison participated in the first in a series of White Rose Collaboration Fund seminars on welfare to work and disability benefits.

February 2012

Leeds was the venue for a five-day training event for the Marie Curie DREAM Initial Training Network project, involving 30 Early Stage Researchers, academic and industrial partners.

Anna Lawson travelled to the Academy of European Law (Germany) as a visiting lecturer.

Dr Chris Till (Leeds) presented this month’s CDS seminar on disability and masculinity.

January 2012

A happy new year to all our subscribers.

The Disability Press published a new book, Creating a Society for All: Disability and Economy, edited by Akihiko Matsui, Osamu Nagase, Alison Sheldon, Dan Goodley, Yasuyuki Sawada and Satoshi Kawashima.

December 2011

Congratulations to all of our students who graduated this month from the MA schemes in Disability Studies, and to Philomena Commons, Armineh Soorenian and Fernando Fontes, who received her doctoral degrees.

We were pleased to welcome Ian Hunter (the South Australia Minister for Disability), Dr Shannon Schedlich-Day (Chief of Staff) and Dr David Caudrey (Director of Disability in South Australia) for a consultation on policy proposals for service personalisation and individualised budgets.

Recent guest seminars were presented by Prof Nick Watson (University of Glasgow) and Dr Tom Campbell (Leeds).

November 2011

Anna Lawson and Sarah Woodin joined researchers, activists and policy stakeholders from nine countries in Vienna to discuss interim findings and recommendations from the Fundamental Rights Agency study on the rights of people with intellectual impairments and mental health conditions.

Researchers from 30 countries met with staff from the European Commission and disabled people’s organisations in Brussels for the fourth annual meeting of the Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED). The meeting was accompanied by award of a €1.95m contract from the European Commission for a further three year programme of work.

The first meeting of the Marie Curie DREAM Initial Training Network was held in Brussels to introduce the 14 early stage researchers to European policy agendas and to share proposals for their linked research projects. CDS was represented at the meeting by Ieva Eskyte, Betul Yalcin and Mark Priestley.

October 2011

This month’s visiting seminar was presented by Judy Hunt (Associate member of UPIAS) on ‘The origins of the UK disabled people's movement: Learning from history’.

Sonali Shah and Mark Priestley travelled to Prague to provide methodological training on life course methods and analysis for researchers from Ireland, Austria, Spain and the Czech Republic on the Quali-TyDES research project.

Mark Priestley presented work in progress on monitoring disability policies in European countries to Member States’ government representatives at the EU Disability High Level Group in Brussels.

September 2011

Welcome to Betul Yalcin and Ieva Eskyte, who join the Centre for three years as Marie Curie Research Fellows on theDREAM project researching the interface between state policies, private sector companies and disabled people as employees and consumers of goods and services.

Welcome also to Deborah Fenney, who begins her doctoral research on barriers to environmental citizenship for disabled people.