A Disability, Employment and Equity Research Hub
. . . . if you’d like to support our work, you can send your gift to donate@theproudproject.ca. We can provide tax deductible receipts for both American and Canadian donors. UPDATE: PROUD has finished interviewing research participants in all 5 countries; Canada, the US, the UK, France and Belgium. (We are no longer recruiting for this … Read more
24 May 2023 The PROUD Project team has almost completed the interviews of our 5 country international study – we are finishing up conversations in the UK this month. We have been speaking to both employees/entrepreneurs living in disabling contexts and employers of people living in disabling contexts in Canada, the UK, the US, France … Read more
By Andrea Whiteley, PhD. There is an accessible and downloadable PDF version of this blog post at the end of the text. Knowledge Mobilization The PROUD team is extremely “proud” of our podcast Broadcastability. We finished production in May, creating 8 podcasts with some of our Canadian research participants as well as our with our … Read more
Update March 18, 2022 The PROUD Project researchers have shifted our focus to interviewing research participants in France and the UK, now that our Canadian interviews are almost complete. We are still open to recruiting employers and managers in Canada who employ people with disabilities in their workplace to talk to us about their experiences. Since … Read more
So many exciting and positive developments have happened since our last blog for the PROUD Project. This update is to let our participants, followers and other interested visitors know about our progress. We are mostly finished conducting interviews with employees for our Canadian phase of the research project. We are still hoping to recruit a … Read more
The PROUD research team is entering the summer months busier than ever and we wanted to update participants, followers and other interested visitors about our progress. We are almost finished conducting interviews with employees for our Canada phase of the research project, and are now recruiting employers. We would like to hear from organizations and … Read more
By Andrea Whiteley, Post-Doctoral Fellow for the PROUD Project While the pandemic may have slowed down our research process somewhat, our research team stayed very busy over the last year. Our team has created an accessible website, applied for and received a TechNation grant which supported the hiring of another researcher, secured private funding for … Read more
Today is the UN International Day of the Disabled Person. I suspect that most people don’t know and don’t care. The problem with innumerable advocacy movements clamouring for attention and highlighting their specific cause with special months and days is that these calendar reminders have come to mean little to those outside their immediate cause. … Read more
Canadian Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act
26 July 2020
Thirty years ago, the US Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, a landmark piece of civil rights law that many hoped would fundamentally change the lives of disabled Americans. It also had a resounding impact around the globe and stood as an example of legislation which mandated the physical renovation of private and public spaces and, of the workforce, to accommodate disabled individuals.