Principal speaker
Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM
Other speakers
Nick Marshall OAM Prof Elizabeth Kendall
Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability and the Library invites you to attend our inaugural Book Club event. The book club aims to promote awareness and to foster an inclusive culture, through the sharing of stories and lived experience of disability.
This month's host / conversation partner is Professor Elizabeth Kendall. Elizabeth is a rehabilitation psychologist and Director of Griffith's Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability research alliance. Elizabeth has run collaborative research programs for over 30 years, has published more than 200 papers, attracted over $70 million in research grants and consultancies, and has designed and managed major projects focused on disability, chronic disease, and rehabilitation with a range of populations and communities.
Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM is an Australian doctor, lawyer, scientist and disability advocate. He is the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland, Australia. He is the second person with quadriplegia to graduate as a doctor in Australia and the first with spinal cord injury and is Chair of the Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability Engagement Council.
Nick Marshall OAM is an Assistant Professor at Griffith University and owner of Surf Life Physio, a multidisciplinary private practice on the Gold Coast. He is the Senior Physiotherapist for the Queensland Academy of Sport in Swimming, as well as the Australian Surf Lifesaving Team, and on-field Physio for the NRL referees at Broncos and Titans games, State of Origin and Test Matches. Nick is a 2022 Churchill Fellow and an advocate for children with a disability, and is the founder of the Albatross Nippers Inc, an inclusive surf lifesaving program.
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RSVP
RSVP on or before Friday 24 March 2023 13.47 pm, by email inclusivefutures@griffith.edu.au , or by phone 0402830302 , or via https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=q8h8Wtykm0-_YGZxQEmtYmBsrHP4_mNLsFKmGUa3KqRUMVFKQjY1UzhRNDlDOEtERlBaNVg5QzMzUy4u
Event contact details
- Rebekah Barker
- 0402830302