Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez, Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute member and adjunct assistant professor at Maynooth University was selected to participate in the 2022 Global Scholars Academy (GSA) in Budapest. The GSA is organised by Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy and Central European University and will take place from July 18-22, 2020. GSA is an intensive experience for junior faculty and post-docs scholars to engage in sustained, interdisciplinary, peer-to-peer collaboration to understand the most social, political and legal world pressing issues.
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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
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