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Throughout 2014, the Social Policy Institute at Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, is hosting a series lectures on key issues in Australian and international social policy.
The first lecture in the series will be given by Professor Kelley Johnson, Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. In this talk Professor Johnson will discuss her research on people with disability and its impact on policy and legislation.
Professor Kelley Johnson has been Director of the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales since February 2014. She was previously Professor of Disability Policy and Practice at the Norah Fry Research Centre at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Prior to this she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the National Institute for Intellectual Disability at Trinity College, Dublin where she was responsible for a national project that focused on the inclusion of people with intellectual disability in research relevant to their lives.
Professor Johnson has worked extensively in a range of countries including Slovakia, Iceland, Ireland the UK and Croatia.
Her books include Deinstitutionalisation and People with Intellectual Disabilities (edited with Rannveig Traustadottir, 2005), Inclusive Research with People with Intellectual Disabilities, Past Present and Futures (co- written with Jan Walmsley, 2003), Women with Intellectual Disabilities Finding a Place in the World ( 2000). Her articles have been published in Ethics and Social Welfare, the Journal of Rehabilitation and Inclusion, the British Journal of Learning Disabilities, and the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research.
She has a particular interest in de-institutionalisation and community inclusion, and sexuality and relationships of people with intellectual disability.
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