At the end the Research Week, Professor Delia Ferri has been awarded Maynooth University Research Achievement Award 2020, which is awarded in consideration of specific achievements over the last 3-5 years. She has also received the 2020 Faculty of Social Science Research Achievement Award. Professor Ferri is a recipient of a European Research Council Consolidator grant for her research project entitled Protecting the Right to Culture of Persons with Disabilities and Enhancing Cultural Diversity through European Union Law: Exploring New Paths (DANCING). She is co-investigator in the project SHAPES, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme and led by the ALL Institute. She also holds a position of co-investigator in the project Rethinking Digital Copyright Law for a Culturally Diverse, Accessible, Creative Europe (ReCreating Europe), funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme and coordinated by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa. She has published several academic publications in multiple languages including a monograph, a textbook, four edited volumes and articles in internationally ranked peer reviewed law journals. Moreover, Delia has taken part into different policy-oriented studies on the rights of persons with disabilities, participatory processes and cultural diversity.
See more information on Professor Ferri's work here.
ALL Institute: Assisting Living & Learning
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ALL Institute Partners in New Global Assistive Technology Initiative
The ALL Institute is delighted to announce that it is a member of a consortium led by the Global Disability Innovation Hub (Link) that has received €12m from UK Aid - Britain’s Department of International Development
Date: Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Dr. Unai Diaz-Orueta Symposium Presentation at the Mid-Year International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in Prague
"Process-based approach to neuropsychological assessment: from screening tools to comprehensive assessment"
Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2018
ALL Member, Dr. John Owuor, Presenting at Conference, Athens, Greece
5th IASSIDD Europe Congress Diversity & Belonging: Celebrating Difference
Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2018
ALL Member Fleur Boot Facilitates CRE Programme on Intellectual Disability and Assistive technology
Bengaluru, India
Date: Saturday, 14 July 2018
Dr. Unai Diaz-Orueta Gives Workshop at the University of Deusto, Bilbao Invited by Basque-Navarrese Society of Neuropsychology
"Neuropsychological Assessment of Older People: the relevance of a process-based approach"
Date: Wednesday, 11 July 2018
New Article: Fleur Boot, John Owuor and Mac MacLachlan, ALL Members publish in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
Access to assistive technology for people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review to identify barriers and facilitators
Date: Tuesday, 10 July 2018
ALL Member Dr. Unai Diaz-Orueta Invited Speaker at the Summer Course series in the University of the Basque Country
Topic: "Cognitive ageing: current and future challenge (in collaboration with the clinical neuropsychologists Dr. Iban Onandia (University of the Basque Country) and Mr. Javier Oltra-Cucarella (University of Alicante).
Date: Monday, 09 July 2018
New Article Published: ALL Director Mac MacLachlan in Disability and Rehabilitation
"The perceived needs-access gap for health services among persons with disabilities in a rural area within South Africa"
Date: Friday, 29 June 2018
ALL Institute Director Mac MacLachlan presents a paper at Tokyo University
Symposium on Older People and Assistive Technology, referencing recent publications on Assistive Technology Policy and Systems Thinking for Assistive Technology
Date: Thursday, 28 June 2018
ALL Director, Mac MacLachlan at the National Rehabilitation Centre for Persons with Disability, Japan
ALL Institute Director, Mac MacLachlan and Prof Eilish McAuliffe (UCD) visited Takenobu Inoue, Director of the Dept of Assistive Technology, at the National Rehabilitation Centre for Persons with Disability, in Saitama, Japan; with whom they are working on a joint project.
Date: Wednesday, 27 June 2018