Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Campus & Community
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Campus & Community

Burton Blatt Institute co-hosts seminar on ‘International Disability Research and Knowledge Exchange’

Friday, September 16, 2011, By News Staff
Share
disabilities

The Global Research Network on Disability (GRND), a project of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, will host a seminar on “International Disability Research and Knowledge Exchange: Collaborative Research Between Governments and Academia to Promote Disability in Development.”

This seminar, to be held Sept. 20 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will take place prior to the third Global Partnership for Disability and Development (GPDD) forum and membership meeting. The forum and membership meeting is jointly occurring with the second “Conference on Monitoring and Dissemination of the Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities” (CRPD) and the 51st Ordinary Meeting of the Disability Federal Council of Argentina.

GRND is a new initiative, created by BBI and the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the NUI Galway School of Law, to promote collaborative research and knowledge sharing between disability researchers from around the world.

“GRND is envisioned as a system of research networks to support knowledge creation, sharing and translation and use among researchers, policy makers, practitioners and people with disabilities and their families worldwide to advance valued inclusive outcomes in terms of social, economic and civic participation,” says Deepti Samant, BBI senior research associate. GRND, currently in its initial stages of structural development, is led by an executive committee of about 20 internationally acclaimed academics and scholars leading disability research from around the world.

The Sept. 20 seminar is aimed at academics and government personnel in Argentina. The National Advisory Commission for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities of the Republic of Argentina (CO.NA.DIS), which invited BBI, is eager to advance the inclusion of disability in mainstream academic curricula and research, and is interested in learning about best practices in collaboration between governments and academia to promote a sustainable and rigorous agenda for disability research in the country.

The seminar will also focus on the need for collaboration and active knowledge exchange across different regions of the world, especially looking at the lessons learned from initiatives in developing countries around the implementation of the CRPD and how to effectively exchange best practices between researchers and practitioners in developing and developed countries.

Led by Samant, the panel will include representatives of the GRND executive committee: Francisco Bariffi, member of the UN CRPD Experts Commission of the Royal “Patronato” on Disability in Spain, Argentina; Augustina Palacios, general director of the Office on Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Discrimination, Municipality of Mar del Plata, Argentina; and Kamal Lamichhane, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo, Japan. Additionally, the panel will host influential speakers such as Liliana Pantano from the Investigadora CONICET/UCA as well as from CO.NA.DIS.

After the seminar, Samant will also represent BBI at the GPDD membership meeting. During this meeting, Samant will present and showcase the GRND to the full GPDD membership and meeting participants, and she will discuss opportunities to represent academics and researchers within the GPDD membership.

To learn more about the GRND, contact Samant at ddsamant@law.syr.edu.

  • Author

News Staff

  • Recent
  • ‘Leading With Distinction’: Academic Strategic Plan Officially Launches at Tuesday’s Symposium (Video)
    Wednesday, September 27, 2023, By News Staff
  • Exploring the Existence of Life at 125 Degrees Fahrenheit
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023, By Dan Bernardi
  • Cool Class: Mona Awad’s Art of the Fairy Tale
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023, By Dan Bernardi
  • How Climate Warming Could Disrupt a Deep-Rooted Relationship
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023, By Dan Bernardi
  • Be Proactive: How to Keep Yourself Safe on Campus
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023, By Christine Weber

More In Campus & Community

‘Leading With Distinction’: Academic Strategic Plan Officially Launches at Tuesday’s Symposium (Video)

More than 400 members of the University community gathered in person and online yesterday for the official launch of “Leading With Distinction,” Syracuse’s new academic strategic plan. The launch of the plan follows more than a year of collaborative and…

Be Proactive: How to Keep Yourself Safe on Campus

While the chances of you becoming the victim of a crime during your time at Syracuse are low, it is still important to know what steps you can take to keep yourself and your belongings safe. We have teamed up…

College of Visual and Performing Arts Welcomes New Full-Time Faculty

Sixteen new full-time faculty joined the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) for the 2023-24 academic year. Two of the faculty members are also new department chairs in the college. Gregg Barron, assistant teaching professor of music industry in…

Academic Strategic Plan Launch Symposium Set for Sept. 26

Following a yearlong planning and development process involving hundreds of members of the campus community, “Leading With Distinction,” Syracuse University’s new academic strategic plan, was unveiled earlier this month. A launch symposium will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 26, from…

School of Education Faculty Publish ‘Lesson Study With Mathematics and Science Preservice Teachers’

“Lesson Study with Mathematics and Science Preservice Teachers: Finding the Form” (Routledge, 2023) is a new overview of the fundamentals of lesson study edited by School of Education Dean Kelly Chandler-Olcott, Professor Sharon Dotger and Jen Heckathorn G’22, director for…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • X
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2023 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.