Each month the Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP) and the (CDS) host online seminars to showcase disability research translation from our members and collaborators.
As part of NSW Aboriginal Languages Week, we proudly invite you to the Fourth Annual Aboriginal Sign Language Forum, a celebration of the rich diversity, history, and future of the continent’s Indigenous sign languages.ÌýThe forum will bring together community members, researchers, educators, interpreters, and allies to explore the cultural, linguistic, and social significance of Indigenous sign languages, and to celebrate the leadership of Deaf First Nations peoples in their preservation and revitalisation.
In 2023, together with the Disability At Work Network, we invited artists with lived experience of disability to express their hopes and dreams through their artwork, and enter in the running for a selection of jury-awarded prizes. After the success of that event, we ran the competition again in 2025 with the theme Change and Hope.
This unique showcase unveils dreams of the future – personal, universal, challenging, and inspiring – as envisioned by artists whose perspectives have been shaped by their lived experiences of disability.
Thank you to everyone who was able join us for the 2026 Disability Leadership Forum at the ±¬ÁÏÍõ on the 12th of February!
We were grateful to bring together people with disability, collaborators, researchers, practitioners and allies to explore what disability leadership means across sectors, and how we can strengthen it in practice.
You can find video recordings of the full forum online, available in four parts here:
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Engagement board set up at the DLF for in-person guests to interact with throughout the day. Board illustrated by Ben Crothers..
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LinkOur Centre's researchers are at the forefront of systemic change as editors and authors of landmark publication, A Research Agenda for Lived Experience and Disability Policy. The book shares perspectives on embedding lived experience at the heart of policymaking, with particular emphasis on creating more inclusive, equitable, and responsive systems, and illustrates that policy is more effective and impactful when informed by those directly affected. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who worked towards this publication, as you accelerate the shift towards evidence informed, person centred, and inclusive approaches to disability policy.
Get a copy of the book here: .
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Following the announced cuts to the NDIA's social and community budget, members of CDRP have been active in national conversations concerning the future of the NDIS and its recipients. One such action includes a formal written submission to the Inquiry into the Integrity of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, authored by Prof Jen Smith-Merry, Dr Joel Hollier, and Dr Ivy Yen. You can download and read the submission by clicking on the link below:Ìý
Submission: Inquiry into the Integrity of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
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Building on the success of , this handbook aims to further expand global conversations on disability by centring Indigenous knowledge, awareness, cultural practices, and lived experience. We seek chapter contributions that will advance the disability and Indigenous understandings of disabilities from a global representation but also how disability has been interpreted through various pivotal points in our past.
Your participation is vital to shaping a comprehensive and meaningful collection. For further details and to guide your contribution, please see here: Call for Contributions: Global Indigenous Disability Knowledge Systems
Or you can contact the editors directly:
Mailing address
Susan Wakil Health Building,
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