Latest news, research and events from the Melbourne Disability Institute at the University of Melbourne
Customised Employment Support
Enhance your capacity to lead and deliver disability employment services that use an individualised approach, consistent with the requirements of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Who should apply? These courses are for experienced disability support workers who want to upskill to provide customised employment support and leaders wishing to support staff to utilise this method successfully. It is particularly suited to mid-level and above managers who supervise disability employment consultants.
Australia’s COVID-19 response and people with disability
By Professor Anne Kavanagh | Chair of Disability and Health, Centre for Health Equity Melbourne School Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne On March 15 2020, leading health and disability researchers called for urgent action from state and federal governments to develop a targeted response to COVID-19 for people with disability, their families and the disability service sector. Read more.
National Disability Research Partnership
The National Disability Research Partnership (NDRP), announced today by the Hon. Stuart Robert MP, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Minister for Government Services, and the Hon. Anne Ruston, Minister for Families and Social Services, brings together experts in disability policy and research to deliver a world-class disability research and policy hub. The NDRP will aim to facilitate a collaborative, translational research program through partnerships between academics, people with disability, their families and carers, peak advocacy and consumer groups, governments and service providers to conduct cutting-edge policy-relevant research that
enables people with disability to participate fully in society.MDI is pleased to be leading this initiative together with an interim working party made up of researchers from some of Australia’s leading universities. The working party will help facilitate the establishment of the NDRP over a two-year period, actively engage with key stakeholders to facilitate collaboration and guide the initial deliverables of a research agenda, governance model and demonstration projects, all of which will be shaped together with the disability community.
Find out more.
Democratising Disability Data: Update on the effort to achieve safe and secure access to disability data and statistics to provide the evidence needed to optimise services and policy to facilitate better lives of Australians with disability, their families and carers. We are pleased to see significant steps towards improved access to disability data and statistics, and are grateful to the coalition of researchers, advocates, service providers and other stakeholders who have been working with us to help shape this progress. Read more.
New Survey: Are you living with multiple sclerosis (MS), a healthcare provider, disability support worker, or carer for a person with MS, or part of an MS advocacy group Researchers at University of Melbourne and Murdoch University want to hear how the Australian MS community has been affected by COVID-19 or the Australian bushfires.
For more information about the Crisis Resilience in MS project and to take part in the brief online survey, go to https://bit.ly/C-RIMS
Upcoming Events and OpportunitiesFind out about opportunities and events that are happening in the community below. Interested in promoting your event, sharing a job posting, research opportunity or another item of interest? Send the details through to Sara.Donaldson@unimelb.edu.au.
Call for Papers - Now open for the 8th National Brain Injury Conference
Brain Injury Australia invites people with a brain injury, their family members, researchers, clinicians, allied health professionals, service providers and policymakers to submit presentation proposals for Brain Injury Australia’s 8th National Brain Injury Conference – to be held from November 23rd to 25th 2020 in The Holme Building on the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney, sponsored by the University and its Brain and Mind Centre. For the first time, the 8th National Brain Injury Conference will include concurrent sessions. So please feel free to submit multiple presentation proposals. Submit
here Deadline for presentation submissions: 5pm Friday 7th August 2020
Notification of acceptance: 5pm Monday 17th August 2020
For any enquiries regarding presentation submissions or the Conference program, please email: admin@braininjuryaustralia.org.au
Find out more about the conference: https://braininjuryconference.com.au/
Seed Funding Round - The Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
The Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute is calling for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) to a combined seed funding round that seeks to support a number of sustainability-focused, transformative research projects. Project proposals should seek to address one or more of MSSI’s central research themes of climate change, water and future cities, with projects at the nexus of two or more of these themes welcomed.
However, other sustainability-focused research proposals such as sustainable food, circular economies and biodiversity are also within scope. Find out more:
https://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/news/mssi-seed-funding-2021
ONEINFIVE PodcastAt the end of last year, MDI launched ONEINFIVE, a new podcast which explores some of the most complex issues facing people with disability today. All seven episodes are available for download through
iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Pocketcasts or RSS
The Melbourne Disability Institute was established in 2018 to build a collaborative, interdisciplinary and translational research program to improve the lives of people with disability. The MDI program of research aims to capitalise on national reforms and active partnerships with the disability sector to deliver evidence for change and is centered around providing much-needed evidence for the disability sector and broader community to address the complex problems facing people with disability, their families and carers.
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