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Deborah Stienstra- Policy Theme
Deborah Stienstra is Professor in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba. She was Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies from 2003-2006. With Harvey Chochinov, she leads the Vulnerable Persons and End of Life Care New Emerging Team. They recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Palliative Care on Disability and End of Life Care.
She is co-editor of Making Equality: History of Advocacy and Persons with Disabilities in Canada and the lead author of Women with Disabilities: Accessing Trade. She led a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded Research Alliance team on information technologies and people with disabilities called Dis-IT (Disability and Information Technologies Research Alliance). The Dis-IT recently co-edited a special issue of The Information Society on Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion in Information Technologies.
She held the Royal Bank Research Chair in Disability Studies from 2000-2003 at the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies. There she led projects on access to primary care, the transition from post-secondary education to work for students with disabilities, the connections between race or ethnicity and disability, and literacy and disability. Together with the late Henry Enns, she led the team that reviewed and assessed the World Bank activities in terms of disability and inclusion of people with disabilities. Together with the late Patrick Kellerman, she produced a national study assessing all Canadian governments’ implementation of the United Nations Standard Rules on Disability especially in the areas of education, employment and income support. She has also published books and articles on women’s movements and international organizations, gender and Canadian foreign policy, the internet and women’s organizing, and prostitution.
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