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Dr Ellen Fraser-Barbour, Dr Michelle Tso, Professor Karen Fisher and Professor Sally Robinson.
Introduction by Professor Jackie Leach Scully. 

Acknowledgement of Country

We would like to acknowledge that we are hosting this symposium from the lands of the Bedegal People (the UNSW Kensington campus). 

We also acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the various lands on which we all meet today and pay respects to Elders past and present and celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal peoples and their ongoing cultures and connections to the lands and waters of NSW.
 

Format 

• A video message from Disability Matters Project Lead, Dan Goodley
• Introduction by DIIU Director, Professor Jackie Leach Scully
• Our speakers: Dr Ellen Fraser-Barbour, Dr Michelle Tso,  Professor Karen Fisher and Professor Sally Robinson
• 5 minute comfort break
• Questions from the audience
• Close and thank you

Housekeeping

• Having cameras on is completely optional
• If you wish to access English live captioning, you can turn this on by clicking the Live Transcription option in the meeting toolbar below
• The symposium will be recorded and made available on the Disability Matters website
• All papers and speaker materials and will be made available on the website, a copy of this PowerPoint will be available after the event as well
• Please direct questions to the Q&A box in the toolbar below, these will then be read out loud later on
• If you feel you need to leave the session at any point for any reason you are free to do so

A video message from Disability Matters Lead, Dan Goodley

Speaker: Dan Goodley

Disability Matters is a major six year pan national program with disability health and science research, and it's funded by a Wellcome Trust discretionary award. I'm Dan Goodley, I'm the principal investigator and I work in the iHuman Research Institute at the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield. Now, a key ambition of Disability Matters is to make disability the driving subject of research and scholarship. And one element of our program promotes scholarship that demonstrates the contribution of disability studies to a host of fields and disciplines. So we're running a number of short and accessible online symposia hosted in Canada, the UK, India, Singapore and Australia, over the next five years. This one, held in the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of New South Wales is a welcome addition to our Symposia Series. So thanks to all the speakers, the participants and organisers. And of course, a big thank you to our Co-investigator Professor Jackie Leach Scully.
 

Welcome and introduction by Professor Jackie Leach Scully, Director of the Disability Innovation Institute UNSW Sydney

About Professor Jackie Leach Scully 

Jackie’s research interests include several topics across bioethics, but her work is particularly known for a focus on ‘disability bioethics’, specifically looking at selective reproductive technologies, genomics, prostheses and assistive devices, people with disabilities in disaster and humanitarian response, and concepts of vulnerability and justice. In addition, she has a strong focus in feminist bioethics and is currently Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Society of Arts of the UK, holds an honorary professorship at Newcastle 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ, Professor of Social Ethics and Bioethics at UNSW and has been an activist for disability rights for over 30 years.

About the DIIU

The UNSW Disability Innovation Institute is a world first initiative, focusing on disability research, education and knowledge exchange. Its team members take pride in undertaking work that's radically inclusive, and that crosses disciplinary boundaries. The Institute's approach is to see disability not as a problem to be solved, but an integral part of the human condition to be encountered and engaged with rather than feared. 

We are proud to be a part of such an important project, thank you so much for joining us online. 

It is with great pleasure that we introduce our speakers for today’s symposium.

Speakers

Dr Ellen Fraser-Barbour 

Dr. Ellen Fraser-Barbour, Policy and Research Leader - I bring an embodied approach to knowledge given my combination of lived, academic and professional experience. I am passionate about work to do with preventing and confronting discrimination and harm against people with disability.  Research can be a valuable social justice tool, offering ways for disabled people to be critical thinkers and heard and listened to.  

Link to paper

Dr Michelle Tso 

Michelle Tso has a teaching background in high school education and recently completed her PhD thesis on the peer interactions of high school girls on the autism spectrum. She works as an Inclusive Research Development Officer at the Disability Innovation Institute and as a post-doc Research Associate with GeneEQUAL. Her research interests are in inclusive research and span education and health, particularly supporting the wellbeing of students and adults on the autism spectrum or with intellectual disability.  

Link to paper

Professor Karen Fisher and Professor Sally Robinson 

Karen Fisher is a Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre UNSW. She is a disability and mental health policy researcher in Australia and Asia.

Sally Robinson is Professor of Disability and Community Inclusion at Flinders 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ. She does research with children, young people and adults with disability about what helps them feel safe, well and happy at difficult times in their lives. Most of her work is done in teams that include people with disability as researchers as well as asking them for their views. She also works with governments and organisations about how to listen to the things that matter to disabled people. 

Link to paper
 

Q&A Session 

Thank you to our speakers, we will now open up to the audience for questions. 
 

Close 

Thank you from the Disability Innovation Institute UNSW to our speakers and to everyone for attending today. 

A big thank you to Dan Goodley, Rhea Halsey and the Disability Matters Team for your excellent project oversight and assistance with organising this event. We are very proud to be a part of such an important international project. 

We welcome you to connect with us by email diiu@unsw.edu.au. You can learn more about our work on our website .