Event

Keynote address: Discrimination, Bullying and Community Attitudes

Time: 10:15am - 11:00am

Location: The Hall

Speaker: Professor Anne Kavanagh, Academic Director, Melbourne Disability Institute

Academic Director of the newly established Melbourne Disability Institute, Professor Anne Kavanagh talks about recent research into bullying, discrimination and violence experienced by people with disability. She is joined on stage by community researchers who were involved with the Survey of Community Attitudes Towards People with Disability.  They present some preliminary findings and discuss how community attitudes towards people with disability affect life opportunities and health and wellbeing 

 

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Our roving reporter Marie McInerney, caught up with Anne Kavanagh and Vasiliky Kasidis, one of the consumer researchers, behind the scenes at SDAC18 where they discussed their methodology in more detail.

 

 

Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference 2018

Doing disability differently

Where:
NAB Hall, 700 Bourke Street, Docklands
When:
Friday 14th September, 2018