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 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
ALL Director, Prof. Mac MacLachlan in Japan
ALL Director Mac MacLachlan visits WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan, to discuss research and development issues related to Assistive Technology.
Date: Tuesday, 26 June 2018
ALL Member Dr. Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez has Book Chapter Published
Rodríguez, A. M. S. (2018). Contesting Neoliberalism: Bringing in Economic and Social Rights to End Violence against Women in Mexico. In G. MacNaughton & D. F. Frey (Eds.), Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World (pp. 173): Cambridge University Press.
Date: Tuesday, 26 June 2018
ALL Member Delia Ferri hosts second Jean Monnet Summer School “The EU and Human Rights in a time of crisis”
The opening and closing sessions will host respectively Prof. Michael O’Flaherty (Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency) and Ms Emily O’Reilly (European Ombudsman),
Date: Saturday, 23 June 2018
Katriona O'Sullivan, ALL Member has New Book Chapters Published
"Responding to the Global Access Challenge: Expanding College and Career Opportunities for Students from Low-SES Communities in Ireland." "Migrating Innovations Across National Boundaries: Starting Early Access Interventions in the United Kingdom."
Date: Thursday, 14 June 2018
ALL Member Dr. Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez at 11th Conference of States Parties, New York
Dr. Sanchez Rodriguez participated with the Humanity and Inclusion delegation in the 11th session of the Conference of States Parties (COSP) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Date: Tuesday, 12 June 2018
New Article by ALL Member Delia Ferri in 'Societies' Journal
Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities in the European Union: Paving the Road to Social Inclusion
Date: Tuesday, 12 June 2018
ALL Member Dr. Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez at Law and Society, Toronto 2018
“The 2030 Agenda: Understanding Economic and Social Rights for persons with disabilities”
Date: Thursday, 07 June 2018
ALL Members Dr Seán Commins and Dr. Richard Roche Have New Article Published in Ageing Research Reviews
Autobiographical memory, the ageing brain and mechanisms of psychological interventions
Date: Thursday, 31 May 2018