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Disability Entrepreneurs or Self-Employed Research Study

Locality: Ultimo, New South Wales

Phone: +61 408 969 371

Address: 14 Ultimo Road 2007 Ultimo, NSW, Australia

Website: https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-business-school/management/projects/disability-entrepreneurship

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25.01.2022 Before we can be employed for end up in self employment or entrepreneurialism we need a more equitable approach to education. This post explains the statistical gap at undergraduate level for people with disability. Time to reduce the gap.

24.01.2022 Laura O’Reilly is a co-founder of Jigsaw business started to generate meaningful and decent disability employment opportunities. Laura and her brother Jordan were motivated by their 3rd sibling Shane’s experiences as a person with cerebral palsy. Post other examples of enterprises started with a direct lived experience of disability connection https://www.smh.com.au//crushing-spurs-siblings-to-find-mi

23.01.2022 A story by SmartCompany on our report...bigger story to come on the Report, website, video vignettes and other resources. Thank you so much for everybody’s help and we are moving into a advocacy and policy stage with the work now that we have an evidence base. Let us know other uses that you might have for the research and how we can help you.

23.01.2022 Never too old to learn new tricks...

18.01.2022 An excellent Al Jazeera story looking at the NDIS and its effect on the development of disability entrepreneurship, social enterprise and tech innovation in the disability goods, services and experience economy.

17.01.2022 Would you like to know more about the lived experiences of entrepreneurs with disabilities, their journey, motivations, barriers encountered, enablers that assisted, benefits of their enterprise and other outcomes? Then see the video vignettes on the UTS Disability Entrepreneurship Project page https://www.uts.edu.au//projec/disability-entrepreneurship

17.01.2022 Entrepreneurs everywhere If only it was accessible!

16.01.2022 Taking Back the Waves was a film made by Surf Life Saving NSW that documented some of the cool initiatives on inclusive beaches in Australia. Two years ago Mel Edwards, Hazel Maxwell, Barbara Almond and I completed a major study for Surf Life Saving NSW so inclusion and the beaches are now more centrally on the agenda. Sargood On Collaroy are doing great work in the space including surfing, scuba diving, fishing and just getting people engaged in outdoor water environments. ...Of course with greater participation thereIs an increased need for consumer spending by people with disabilities on beachwear, holidays and personal products, and the need for councils and Surf clubs to provide infrastructure and equipment, and increasing entrepreneurial activity that has seen Start-up companies develop to satisfy these needs including Push Mobility, The Good Scout Travel Co and others Participation by people with disabilities in any area of society is good for the individual and great for the community and the economy. See more

14.01.2022 Checkout day 3 of the Disability Entrepreneurs Festival

14.01.2022 And interesting episode examining the NDIS and COVID-19

12.01.2022 Transport is an incredibly important issue for all people with disability looking for employment and even more so for those people with disabilities that maybe consultants and require to go to clients all the time. This is the Physical Disability Council of NSW submission to the NSW Department of Transport point to point transport paper. Very important work!

12.01.2022 A new free social impact toolbox that could be useful for for-profit and social enterprises in measuring the social impact of their work... Check it out

11.01.2022 While not mentioning disability, the implications of this study on unconscious bias training are obvious for all marginalised workers - don’t expect awareness training to improve our situations but it may placate the way feel that at least something is being done. This may entrench institutionalised bias by placing change on the shoulders of individuals rather than the organisation. It also does little to call out discrimination again leaving it to individuals to challenge the organisation on its discriminatory practices. But what happens to the whistle blowers? Chris Sparks John Bruce Moxon Helen Meekosha Peter Wheelie Simpson

10.01.2022 I'm presenting at 12:15

10.01.2022 For all you entrepreneurs with disability out there here is a free one week event called the "disability entrepreneur festival" brought to you by the Disability Leadership Institute. It's not too late to sign up for the whole week or any of the individual days

08.01.2022 Entrepreneurial activity giving some of us a grip!

06.01.2022 We all know that people past their mid 40s experience a great deal of discrimination in the workplace. This article examines the advantages of setting up your own consultancy if you have a solid background in an area and become your own boss through self-employment and entrepreneurship. All areas of marginality experience discrimination in the workplace. Taking control and working for yourself is one way to challenge these prejudices.

06.01.2022 Well done Oliver Morton-Evans $1 million for development of their virtual reality start up program https://www.mtpconnect.org.au/Story?Action=View&Story_id=275

04.01.2022 An article about some interesting issues with self-employment.

03.01.2022 I am looking forward to a spectacular evening at Remarkable Tech #SYD20 demo day exhibiting all their new #disability #tech #startups. Being one of the Remarkable Mentors has given me an inside on how good the current cohort of start-ups are. Do yourself a favour and get yourself a free virtual ticket for Wednesday 5 August at 5:30 PM! See you there...

03.01.2022 What great user led & designed disability tech! Any others that people know of that they would like to post?

01.01.2022 A fantastic example of a family based entrepreneurial start-up coming out of Remarkable