Disability and Mental Health
SPRC disability and mental health research focuses on applied Australian Asia Pacific cross-disciplinary research with a critical social approach. The Centre, and colleagues across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, promotes the social perspective of disability and mental health in education and research to maximise Australia’s capacity to ensure an equitable, participatory and accessible society.
Through engaging with researchers who are people with disability and other disability researchers as principals in research, we promote the inclusion of people with disability and mental illness in research work, research training, and other events. The Centre aims to improve research outcomes by identifying opportunities for collaborative research and encouraging higher degree research. We contribute to the capacity of disability and mental health organisations to engage in public policy debates on the basis of credible research and policy positions developed according to their priorities and perspectives.
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Edited collection on Disabled Mothers -CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on DISABLED MOTHERS*
Co-editors: Gloria Filax and Dena Taylor
Publication Date: 2014
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: DECEMBER 31, 2011!
While there are several books on raising children with disabilities, the literature is scant on experiences of disabled women who are raising children OR the experiences of those parented by a woman with disabilities. Bringing together disability with mothering has the potential to challenge dominant narratives of both mothering AND disability. Noticing dominant ideas, meanings, and/or stories/narratives (normative discourses) regarding both 'mothering' and 'disability' expose the limits beyond which disabled mothers live their daily lives. More information
The Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) for the ASEAN region has issued a call for research proposals from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore on disability inclusive public policy, accessible virtual and distance education, and international education networks.
http://aseanidpp.org/idpp-call-for-proposals-1
