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Centre for Disability Law and Policy

Dr. Eilionóir Flynn, Senior Research Fellow

UN Convention on the Rights of

Persons with Disabilities

Legal Capacity Decision-Making

Law Reform Process (IRL, Balkans, US,

Canada)

Supporting National Platform of Self Advocates

Monitoring implementation

Independent community living

EU Structural Funds research

Accessibility technology,

universal design

Core Areas of Research

Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED – funded by EU Commission)

Disability Rights Enhancing Accessible Markets (DREAM – Marie Curie ITN)

Disability and Citizenship: a New European Social Model (FP7 Co-operation)

EU Structural Funds and Deinstitutionalisation (UN OHCHR – EU office)

Disability Studies Association of Ireland

Networks and Funding

Professor Michael Stein, Harvard University Professor Tony Holland, University of Cambridge Professor Lisa Waddington, University of

Maastricht Professor Mark Priestley University of Leeds Professor Jerome Bickenbach, SPF and

University of Lucerne Professor Bjorn Hvinden, NOVA Professor Rannveig Traustadottir, University of

Iceland Professor Theresia Degener, Bochum University Professor Nora Groce, University College London

Collaborators