Disability@Work round table brings together leading academics with key government officials
Inclusive employers? Learning from evidence on government and employer action to increase disabled people’s opportunities at work On June 13th 2019, disability@work hosted a round table that brought together leading academics from around the world with senior...
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Two Ticks research presented in Cardiff and Washington D.C.
How successful was the UK Government’s Two Ticks ‘Positive About Disabled People’ scheme and what lessons can be learned for the successor ‘Disability Confident’ scheme? Nick Bacon, Kim Hoque and David Allen (Texas Christian University) have researched this matter...
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Defining disability with the GSS Harmonisation Team
How to improve data collection on disability? In March 2019 Melanie and Vicki hosted the Government Statistical Service Harmonisation Team from the Office for National Statistics to discuss improvements to data collection on disability. Current data collection...
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Co-creation of Local Industrial Strategy
Co-creation of Local Industrial Strategy at West of England Combined Authority In March 2019 Vicki represented Disability@Work and Disability Rights UK at a workshop designed to shape the conclusions of the West of England Combine Authority’s (WECA) Local Industrial...
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Disability@Work Delivers Public Value
Disability@Work Delivers Public Value As the first public value business school, Cardiff Business School aims to deliver social improvement alongside economic development, recognising the role that business and management has to play in tackling some of the grand...
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Seminar at Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE
In December 2018, Melanie presented work on the impact of disability onset on employment and life satisfaction. The audience of policymakers included members of the Health and Work Unit at the DWP sponsored CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminar Series. Melanie's...
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Disability is difficult to measure: some recommendations from our response to Improving Lives
As government and organisations grapple with disability reporting and tracking trends in disability prevalence and gaps in disability-related outcomes, we publish our response to the Government’s Green Paper Consultation Improving Lives: Work Health and Disability...
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Meetings at No. 10
Kim Hoque (Disability@Work) and Philip Connolly and Kamran Mallick (Disability Rights UK) met with the Prime Minister’s special adviser on disability, Jean Andre Prager, to discuss the key recommendations of the APPG for Disability Ahead of the Arc report on closing...
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Disability@Work action on Ahead of the Arc publicised in APPG for Disability blogs
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability has published two blogs detailing the work it has undertaken in recent months. Central to these blogs is the work Disability@Work has undertaken in collaboration with Phillip Connolly at Disability Rights UK to...
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ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership funds PhD to explore the impact of disability onset on individual wellbeing in the UK
John Poole will join Cardiff Business School as a PhD student from October 2018 to work with Professors Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass using longitudinal data to explore how the impact of disability develops during the life course, the extent to which it persists and...
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Disability employment gaps across countries
Source: Jones (2016) Disability and labor market outcomes, IZA World of Labor: 253 doi: 10.15185/izawol.253 Professor Melanie Jones reports five consistent findings across the countries of the EU on the enduring nature of labour market disadvantage for disabled...
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Professor Melanie Jones co-authors paper tracking the impact of disability on life satisfaction
Using a measure of individual wellbeing such as life satisfaction offers a useful approach to capturing the overall impact of a diverse range of impacts of the experience of disability. Using Australian data the research finds a dramatic decline in wellbeing at the...
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