Dr Jason Schaub has been awarded two grants in the past 6 months. One from the School of Social Care Research (NIHR) for £270,000 for a study called 'Understanding the Social Care Assessment Journey of Older LGBTQ+ People.' The grant will support a two-year collaborative study in partnership with a support organisation, Opening Doors and the Universities of Manchester and Bristol. The study will be co-produced with PPI co-researchers and three local authority case study sites.
Dr Gëzim Alpion has been granted the Mother Teresa Award, bestowed upon him by Ilir Meta, the President of Albania. The award is in recognition of and a token of gratitude for Alpion’s valuable academic contribution to the thorough study of Saint Mother Teresa’s life and work, and the promotion worldwide of her Albanian national value.
PhD student Gary Cooper-Stanton recently presented results of his systematic review of men diagnosed with lymphoedema at the Tissue Viability Conference and won the award for Best Free Paper.
IRiS's Kristina Stoewe has passed her PhD viva with minor corrections. Her thesis is entitled 'Entrepreneurship and integration in the global city: the cases of refugee-origin entrepreneurship in Birmingham and Cologne.' Congratulations to Dr Stoewe.
PhD student Vera Kubenz been invited to contribute an article to the Autumn edition of the Fabian Review on how the global recovery COVID-19 must centre disabled people.