Conference
RO-MAN 2021

Title: Disability and Robotics: 'What is this about in the Global South'

10:40 - 11.20 - 12th August 2021

Bio: Marisol Moreno-Angarita Tenured Professor. Currently works at the Departamento de Comunicación Humana. Director of Research Group on Disability, Policies and Social Justice, Department of Human Communication, Faculty of Medicine. Marisol does research in Policies related to People with Disabilities in health, Educational, and Labour settings.

She is also an Early Childhood Researcher. She does advocacy at local, national and international level. She also conducts Qualitative Social Research.

Bio: My research is around Disabled Children's Childhoods Studies and developing co-production approaches and public engagement in research. My current project is Disability Rights and Robotics; Co-producing futures with a cross disciplinary team prioritising public involvement for user centred design and application. My background has been in social work education and teaching around these areas.

Bio: Andy is Associate Professor in Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and has a social sciences background. His research interests focus on public involvement in health research. He is the academic lead for People in Health West of England (www.phwe.org.uk), a UWE-led collaborative initiative on PPI in research with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC West), the West of England Academic Health Science Network, the Clinical Research Network West of England, Bristol Biomedical Research Centre and Bristol Health Partners.

He also leads the UWE patient and public involvement team based in the Department of Health and Social Sciences. Prior to moving to the University of Western England Andy led the development of PPI at the Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC),where he established an innovative model of PPI which received national recognition. His work has involved developing PPI in research areas which typically have not involved the public, such as computer modelling and with seldom heard groups such as people with dementia.

He has developed a framework for conceptualising PPI (Gibson et al, 2012; 2017) that also has practical utility in the evaluation and planning of PPI. He was also part of the MRC funded team that developed the Public Involvement Impact Assessment Framework (PiiAF). He was a major contributor to organising the first UK conference focusing on developing the evidence base for PPI, held in Exeter in November 2013, which was attended by many of the leading academics in the field.

Bio: Carla Rice is a Full Professor in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph and has recently completed her term as Canada Research Chair in Care, Gender, and Relationships. As founder and director of Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice and the Revisioning Differences Media Arts Laboratory (REDLAB), Carla seeks to explore the efficacy and power of arts-informed research and research creation methods to advance social well-being, inclusion, equity, and justice in Canada and beyond.

Bio: MSc Leslie Thompson is a Clinical Psychologist-Psychoanalyst in Monterrey, Mexico. She is the founder and co-owner of Maccia, a centre that provides psychotherapy for people in critical situations as well as training for psychotherapists in critical psychology. Additionally, Maccia seeks to build another gaze towards mental health and social inclusion for people with disabilities through projects of visibility, awareness and inclusion. She is actively engaged in the creation and improvement of programs for the rehabilitation of people with blindness and visual impairments. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Psychosocial Studies in the University of the West of England, where she is conducting her doctoral research on the needs and obstacles for implementing psychological treatment for acquired blindness. She is also a clinical professor and the leader of Psychooncology of the Oncology Institute of TecSalud. She has presented her work in national and international conferences, creating conversations and shedding light upon the issues of the grieving and rehabilitation process of blindness, the psychological and social aspects of disability, and cross-cultural narratives of disability and identity between Mexico and England. She is a Board Member of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society and an international affiliate of the American Psychological Association, Division 39 Early and the Association of Psycho-Social Studies.