Hi Larry
not particularly sinister, and you're quite wrong. It is an EU funded network involving partnership between Universities, advocacy organisations and technology sector partners based absolutely in a paradigm of accessibility, human rights and social model approaches. The point is precisely to examine how UN Convention rights are established, protected and ensured in markets (which you rightly suggest can work against this).
Good research should always engage and be critical. Studying markets (or medicine for that matter) is something that isn't done often enough and we ought to be more wary about research that only talks to our friends...first know your enemy, as they say... ;-)
For fuller details...
New Marie Curie Initial Training Network
DREAM - Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets
14 Ph.D. / Early Stage Research positions on Disability Rights and Accessibility
The Marie Curie Initial Training Network, DREAM, is seeking to recruit 14 Ph.D. / Early Stage Researchers who will research how the rights contained in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities can be transformed into practical recommendations for reform of law and policy within the member states and at EU level. Each of the 14 research positions corresponds to an article of the Convention and researchers will be based at one of 7 network partners across Europe. Researchers will be employed from 1 September 2011 for 3 years and supported to complete a PhD at the host institution or an affiliated university. For further information on the positions available and how to apply can be found at www.nuigalway.ie/dream
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Arnold [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 07 February 2011 13:28
> To: Mark Priestley; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: jobs/PhD - two early stage research posts - Leeds
>
> This one looks a little bit political in the sinister sense.
>
> Is this governments agenda I wonder, get us scroungers into work (I
> nearly
> typed wok there, but it might amount to the same thing)
>
> Maybe I am just paranoid in suspecting that the usual standards of
> social
> model research are not wanted here, it's words like consumer, and
> private
> sector that scare the proverbials offa me.
>
> Larry
>
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> > Subject: jobs/PhD - two early stage research posts - Leeds
> >
> >
> > 'Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets' (DREAM)
> >
> >
> >
> > Appointment of two Early Stage Researchers (Marie Curie Fellows)
> > (Full-time, fixed term for three years, available from 1 September
> 2010)
> > Applications are invited for two three-year fixed-term appointments
> as
> Marie Curie
> > Research Fellows to join the research team at the Centre for
> Disability
> Studies
> > (University of Leeds) to receive supervision for the preparation of a
> PhD
> thesis, and to
> > benefit from the combined resources of a major international training
> network
> > (DREAM). http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/dream/
> > The two research fellows will work on the following topics within the
> overall research
> > plan
> >
> > * Effective employment policies for disabled people in the
> private
> sector
> >
> > * Effective consumer policies for disabled people in the
> private
> sector
> > More details about the research topics and the posts are available
> here:
> >
> http://www.nuigalway.ie/dream/downloads/leeds_dream_project_esr_posts5a
> nd7.p
> df
> > For further details of the application process, see:
> > http://www.nuigalway.ie/dream/applications.html
> >
> > As Marie Curie Fellows, suitably qualified and experienced
> researchers
> will receive a
> > fixed salary/living allowance, plus mobility, travel or career
> exploration
> allowances
> > according to the Marie Curie Framework 7 requirements for Early Stage
> Researchers.
> > Individual allowances may vary according to personal factors (such as
> family status
> > and place of origin) and are calculated in Euros. There are strict
> eligibility and
> > residency requirements that must be met.
> > Each researcher will be appointed on a full-time, fixed-term contract
> at
> the University
> > of Leeds for a period of three years, which may include a six-month
> internship at an
> > associated partner organisation in the DREAM Network. Availability to
> travel
> > (including internationally), for the purposes of the research and
> training
> activities, is a
> > requirement for these posts.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Mark Priestley
> > Professor of Disability Policy
> > Director, Centre for Disability Studies
> > University of Leeds
> > LEEDS
> > LS2 9JT
> > UK
> >
> > tel: +44 113 343 4417
> > fax: +44 113 343 4415
> > Skype: mark-priestley
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