New Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowships launched

This fall, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research will be funding a new post-doctoral program based at the
University of California, Berkeley -- three full-time, nine-month
residential postdoctoral fellowships a year for five years.  The Ed
Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowships will begin this fall or next
January, depending on whether the program has sufficient applicants.

To jumpstart the program, a San Francisco Bay area consortium of
universities, research institutes, and disability agencies will
recruit people with advanced professional degrees who want to broaden
their theoretical outlook and their disability research
methodological skills to apply for the fellowships.

Each Fellow will be matched with a senior faculty Mentor, and each
Fellow will also participate as a Mentor for a matched undergraduate
disability studies student. The program will offer structured,
monthly, Bay-area-wide seminars; the Fellows will present research
work at these seminars. They will also attend at least one class each
semester chosen from among the offerings of consortium partners. Each
Fellow will also have the opportunity to participate in teaching at
Berkeley by delivering guest lectures.

Fellows will also conduct their own research; the program will assist
Fellows in identifying funding to pursue disability studies and
rehabilitation research and publication opportunities after the
conclusion of the Fellowship.

For more information on the Fellowships, contact Susan Schweik at
[log in to unmask] or Devva Kasnitz at [log in to unmask]

Disability studies is a growing field.  A number of schools around
the nation now have major disability studies programs. Among the best
known of these are:

The Department of Disability and Human Development at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, at http://www.uic.edu/depts/idhd/

The Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii/Manoa,
at http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/

The Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University, at
http://soeweb.syr.edu/thechp/disstud.htm

The Arizona University Center on Disabilities at http://www.nau.edu/~ihd/

and

The  Institute on Disability (University of New Hampshire) at
http://iod.unh.edu/

There are many other disability studies programs in the U.S. and the
number is growing daily. We encourage readers of this E-Letter to
send us information about other U.S.  disability studies programs at
the University level. Send information to [log in to unmask]


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