(DATE CHANGED) Legitimacy and Innovation: Modelling Disability Policy Co-design to Overcome Systemic Ableism in Canadian Disability Housing Policy
This Political Studies Speaker Series lecture is presented by Daniel Dickson, assistant professor in social policy at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
This event has been rescheduled to Friday, March 27.
Date: Friday, March 27
Time: 2–3:30 pm
Location: Arts Building Room 272, 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public
About this event
Over the past 15 years, Canadian disability policies have increasingly involved people with disabilities to consult on new policy instruments. However, they report that involvement in policy consultations has been mostly tokenistic, with no substantive impact on policy design. Policy co-design offers a more innovative and democratically legitimate alternative by ceding power to communities with lived experience of policies. Drawing from a scoping literature review and preliminary findings from a co-design project led by self-advocates with intellectual disabilities, this presentation explores the potential of disability policy co-design to overcome systemic biases in Canadian disability housing policy.
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