Prof @UTS_Business | Social impact | D&I | disability employment transport entrepreneurship sport tourism events | Power wheelchair user🧑🏻🦼
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Why do people with #disability in Australia have a 43% higher rate of #selfemployment & #entrepreneurship than the nondisabled? Read our article exploring the phenomenon - #Entrepreneurs with disability: Australian insights through a social ecology lens tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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. @UTS_Business School has partnered with AFFINITY to launch a new campaign highlighting how business and business research can make a positive contribution to the world
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Paris is adding another page to Paralympic history but what will its legacy be?
Great to work with David Legg, Tracey Dickson & Barbara Almond on our 2 cents worth
#Paris2024 #Paralympic #Disability #Accessibility #Legacy #sport
theconversation.com/paris-is… via @ConversationEDU
A really important paper on the experiences of disabled spectators at English football. Well done @Connor_Penfold!
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Everyone in Oz please take note of @drkerrynphelps sensible suggestions in the face of significantly increasing COVID, flu, RSV & whooping cough that is rampant at the moment. Do it for yourself, your loved ones & your colleagues not to mention vulnerable children and adults.
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Meet an #ARATAaus #AATC2024 keynote speaker, @simon_darcy As Professor of Social Inclusion @UTS_Business @UTSEngage Simon is a transdisciplinary mixed methods researcher & power wheelchair user bringing insider perspective to research #policy & #practice for an #inclusive society
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No surprise @FinancialReview is at it again. They detest #NDIS because it's part of the modern world where we meet & pay for need. I agree with @billshortenmp "The alternative to having the scheme is to go back to what existed beforehand, and that was a disaster." #auspol.
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New article published with @simon_darcy
Managing the co-creation of accessible and inclusive family recreation retail encounters: A critical incident analysis
doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser…
@UOCecoempresa @uoc
This is an important study for the hospitality industry in that it moves beyond physical access to include food preparation for people with swallowing or other impairments where food texture is an essential ingredient of dining out @UTSDisability @UTSSocialImpact @UTS_Business – at Sydney, New South Wales
Eating out is still isolating for people with disabilities, finds @DisabilityRehab study.
@BronwynHemsley say more needs to be done to improve and enhance the dining experience for people with disabilities like improved training for hospitality staff
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An important special issue on new cosmopolitanisms from @UTSePRESS at a time where civil society is being challenged around the globe
@UTSSocialImpact @UTSFass @UTSDisability @UTS_Business
epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journa… – at Sydney, New South Wales
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The culmination of our songwriting workshop - a showcase of four songs we created were performed at the @MiamiMarketta and a panel discussion on sports and
@adele_pavlidis @SimoneFullagar @GriffithUniSAGE @GU_SocialCultur @Griffith_Uni @GU_Incl_Futures
🙏 A big thank you to everybody that has had a chat, attended events or worked with me over the years. To paraphrase, "I'm certainly enjoying the journey as well as the destination" as its a buzz doing the cool things we get to do!
@UTS_Business @UTSDisability
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Congratulationss to my friend and colleague @UTS_Business School’s Professor @simon_darcy on receiving the Chancellor’s Medal for Research Excellence, recognising his longstanding research and advocacy in improving the lives of people with disability
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Hundreds of academics have quit the world’s top women’s studies journal - Gender, Work & Organization - as managerail decisions move it away from long-established critical gender and feminist roots
timeshighereducation.com/new… via @timeshighered
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Excited to announce that my first book, Building the WNBA: From "Dunking Divas" to Political Leaders, has been released online! The book gives a historical and contemporary analysis of @WNBA and its players:
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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We know gutting the public service leads to things like robodebt, ballooning wait times + $20.8bn on consultants under former PM Morrison alone.
Least cost & best outcome is achieved through proper investment in our APS.
canberratimes.com.au/story/8…
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PTransport Systems 'fail' people with disability
Richard Witbreuk, chair of the National Inclusive Transport Advocacy Network, said Australia's "half baked" transport systems "fail" people with disability, and the laws created to protect them were not enforced enough.#politas
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"We need to make sure that Article 19 of UNCRPD is upheld. That people are able to live where they want to live, where is best for them & that they get to make up their mind about that and decide who they live with, if anybody at all." says @criprights
youtu.be/iDczk7aYVKU?si=BwDd…
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Faced with unprecedented global threats, how do charities tackle all of these issues? And how does a charity know when the job is done? Join us this Thursday, 29 Feb 2024 6 pm - 7 pm! Speakers @bronwendalton1 @WehYeoh @NajmehHassanli @LewisWhales
uts.edu.au/about/uts-busines…
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Last minute: Call for Papers | Sport Mobilities: new directions and connections at the intersection of sport and mobilities research | Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference (Hybrid), London, August 27–30, 2024. Call ends February 19, 2024
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