A medal for making a difference in global disabilities
December 1, 2022
Not only did Shixin Huang graduate from the Jackson School with a doctorate in international studies and a GPA of 3.95 in June 2022, but she was also awarded another
Stephen Meyers
Prof. Meyers is accepting new MA and PhD students for the 2027-2028 academic year Stephen Meyers is an Associate Professor in Law, Societies & Justice; and International Studies at the University...
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Collaborating across continents for disability rights
September 20, 2021
For eight University of Washington undergraduates, the first week of June this year meant more than the end of the academic year or finishing final exams. It meant a chance
UNESCO Review on the Relationship Between School Violence and Bullying and Disability
September 1, 2020
JSIS Professor Stephen Meyers and Ph.D. Candidate Megan McCloskey convened a Global Research Group to support a desk review for UNESCO of the literature on the relationship between school violence
Assistant Professor Stephen Meyers selected for grant for disability inclusive development
July 1, 2020
Stephen Meyers, an assistant professor in the Jackson School for International Studies and Department of Law, Societies and Justice, has been awarded a Harlan Hahn Endowment Fund Grant for research, travel, course development,
Four Jackson faculty receive Global Innovation Fund research awards
March 5, 2020
Congratulations to four Jackson School faculty who are among 21 University of Washington faculty who have been selected by the University of Washington’s Office of Global Affairs as recipients of
DIDI received new funding from the Carnegie Opportunities Fund and the UW Global Initiatives Fund
February 24, 2020
The Disability Inclusive Development Initiative was awarded two important grants to expand their work during the 2019-2020 academic year. The Carnegie Opportunities Fund has allowed DIDI to recruit an additional
DIDI Leaders Stephen Meyers and Megan McCloskey teach disability and aging-focused study abroad program in Jamaica
February 24, 2020
This past August 28 – September 21, 2019 DIDI co-leaders Stephen Meyers and Megan McCloskey taught a month long study abroad program in Jamaica. Disability, Aging, and Development in Jamaica
Disability-Inclusive Development Initiative (DIDI) hosts workshop for fifty members of Global Washington
February 24, 2020
On June 7, 2019 the Disability-Inclusive Development Initiative (DIDI) Fellows at the University of Washington to traveled downtown Seattle to hold a workshop on disability inclusive policies and practices for
DIDI Undergraduate Fellows publish article in the journal Disability & Society
February 24, 2020
Undergraduate DIDI Fellows Jessica Niewohner and Shannon Pierson and DIDI faculty co-leader Stephen Meyers published “‘Leave no one behind’? The exclusion of persons with disabilities by development NGOs” in Disability
New book: Stephen Meyers calls for reevaluation of disability advocacy
January 31, 2020
In his new book, Civilizing Disability Society: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Socializing Grassroots Disabled Persons Organizations in Nicaragua (Cambridge University Press, September 2019), Stephen Meyers, Assistant