ASID NSW Event: The Disability Royal Commission: One Year On
ASID NSW hybrid event
The Disability Royal Commission: One Year On
Thursday 28 November 2024
10:00am - 3:30pm (AEDT - Sydney Time) - registration from 9:30am
In Person: Susan Wakil Health Building (D18), Western Avenue
University of Sydney, Level 2 – Room 207
and Online via zoom webinar
Event Flyer
What is this discussion about?This event is about the Disability Royal Commission which looked at the abuse of people with intellectual disabilities. You will hear from leading academics, peak bodies, people with intellectual disabilities and service providers about what the Royal Commission found. They will talk about how this is the same or different from research. They will also talk about what has happened in the past year and what needs to happen next. The topics are supported decision-making, inclusive governance, mainstream housing, parenting, and living in a rural area. There will be time to talk about what needs to change. A graphic facilitator will create a picture of what the people presenting and attending the event talk about. The event is hybrid. You can attend in person or online. |
Speakers:
| Christine Bigby |
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Christine Bigby is a Professor of Social Work at LaTrobe University and Director of the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
She researches practice that supports the engagement and social inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities. She works in collaboration with disability service providers and self advocates.
Chris has been on the Board of ASID for some years and was the founding editor of the ASID practice Journal, Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disability.
Chris is a longstanding fan of folk music and trying hard to become a fitness fanatic.
| Bernadette Curryer |
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Bernadette has been involved in the disability sector as a parent, advocate, and researcher. She has a strong interest in the self-determination of adults with intellectual disability. She is currently working at Side By Side Advocacy in Parramatta, leading a research project exploring the inclusion of people with intellectual disability in the decision-making and governance of disability and community organisations.
| Katrina Sneath |
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Katrina is a passionate advocate for people with disability. She enjoys public speaking and meeting new people. She worked with the Inclusive Governance Project as a co-researcher. Her message is: “Believe in yourself and don’t let your disability get in the way of anything”.
| Ilan Wiesel |
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Ilan Wiesel is an Associate Professor in urban geography at the University of Melbourne. His research is focused on questions of social inclusion and exclusion for people with intellectual disabilities, with a particular focus on housing, social relations and everyday encounters.
| Stuart Wark |
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Stuart Wark works at the School of Rural Medicine at the University of New England in Armidale. He has worked with people with intellectual disabilities for over 30 years. Stuart is currently also a Committee Member for the NSW Division of ASID.
| Susan Collings |
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Dr Susan Collings is a Senior Research Fellow at the Transforming early Education and Child Health (‘TeEACh’) Research Centre at Western Sydney University. Susan’s applied research aims to tackle the social inequalities that impact on the lives of children and families facing adversity using participatory and arts-based approaches. Susan has made a contribution to evidence about the lives and barriers faced by families headed by parents with intellectual disability and holds positions on Australian and international research and advocacy groups committed to improving outcomes for these families. Susan lives on the traditional lands of the Wadi Wadi people of the Dharawal nation.
Maeve Kennedy |
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Carolyn Smith |
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