EPUAP Announces Starting Grant
The European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) is offering a €7,000 (about $7700 U.S.) starting grant to EPUAP members “to ignite innovative research ideas and empower the next generation of leaders in this important field.”
Qualifying projects can be 12, 18, or 24 months long to provide flexibility to researchers, and the grant is aimed at “early career researchers,” such as Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers “to fuel the development of groundbreaking ideas that contribute to larger research initiatives.” Apply by March 31.
UCLA Creates Disability Studies Major
Citing the “overwhelming popularity” of its disability studies minor, UCLA has launched a disability studies major, which the school said is a first for a public university in California.
The disability studies major program accepted its first students for UCLA’s fall 2023 quarter.
Professor Victoria Marks, the chair of the disability studies major program and the faculty director of the Dancing Disability Lab in UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, said, “While many schools across the country offer applied programs focused on rehabilitation, diagnosis and services, they tend to view disability as a problem to be fixed or repaired … UCLA’s new major becomes one of only a handful of programs to examine disability as a historical, social, cultural and political experience, and to consider the way societies, cultures, institutions, spaces and mindsets produce disability systemically and socially.”
UCLA’s disability studies minor was established in 2007.
