The leader of the research program group was the organiser and chair of a two-day scientific symposium Against Social Suffering: Social Work in Alliance with People with Disabilities in the Times of Crises in June 2013; researchers from 15 countries (Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Austria, Srilanka, South Africa, Hong Kong, Georgia, Russia, Greece, Great Britain, India, Kosovo, Germany) presented cutting edge research results in disability studies and national and comparative analyses of the situation of people with disabilities from the perspective of human rights. The research program group leader raised funding for it also outside ARRS, from the European Association of the Schools of Social Work, EASSW and the nternational Association of Schools of Social Work, IASSW. Also other members of the program group participated at the symposium, including two young researchers.The outcome of the symposium is an audio book – a collection of all lectures, abstracts and photographic material from the conference. The audio book is an open resource, available to all audiences.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
The achievement took form of an invited lecture at the international conference. The lecture was a public presentation of the scientific results gathered during this research project. The lecture presented a meta-analysis of all small scale Slovenian researches on violence against women with disabilities, the analysis of the original research findings of the same topic and a comparative analysis on violence against women with disabilities in some western societies. The invited lecture was later on already published in a scientific book by several authors: LESKOŠEK, Vesna, ANTIĆ, Milica G., SELIŠNIK, Irena, FILIPČIČ, Katja, UREK, Mojca, MATKO, Katja, ZAVIRŠEK, Darja, SEDMAK, Mateja, KRALJ, Ana, et al. Violence Against Women in Slovenia, ( Dialogues, Vol.14). 1. Edition, Maribor: Aristej, 2013. 223 pages. Tables. ISBN 978-961-220-089-3. [COBISS.SI-ID 76789761]. The lecture and the publishing of it show the research results as well as the dissemination of the results to the national and international scientific public.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 3956069Basic guidelines for evaluation of Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities Act are presented and initial opinions of people with disabilities regarding measures and rights for ensuring equal opportunities are analysed as are also secondary data sources which are obligatory evidences of various public institutions. For public institutions the main obstacle in guaranteeing rights for people with disabilities are scarce financial resources. Meanwhile people with disabilities have noticed that professionals in the public institutions do not have adequate knowledge about legislation, procedures are usually very bureaucratic and they react to slowly to the needs of the people with disabilities.
F.12 Improvements to an existing service
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