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Response to the first call for applications to the DRILL Grants Programme
2nd August 2016
The DRILL Grants Programme closed Wednesday 27 July at 12 noon. The response to this first call for applications has been remarkable. The DRILL Programme Board is genuinely elated by the response which far exceeds our expectations.
DRILL has received 210 applications from all four nations requesting a total of almost £17million. The assessment process will ...
July Blog Post: John Beaton
20th July 2016John Beaton
When I was asked by DRILL to do this blog my initial reaction was to feel privileged and a personal pride that my opinion may be of interest to other people out there in the big bold world of the internet age. This was quickly followed by a wave of anxiety. What if people ...
Looking for a DRILL research partner in Northern Ireland?
31st May 2016I have a PhD in psychology and I am an experienced researcher. I am interested in disability research and initiated and organised the ‘Disability in Northern Ireland: Movement Disorders’ conference that took place in Belfast in May 2015. In terms of disability research, I have an interest in the perceptions and reality of disability (as ...
May Blog Post: Towards a new narrative on Independent Living
31st May 2016Neil Crowther
Advocates for action on early childhood development in the USA had for years and with little success framed their case in terms of the vulnerability of the children they cared about and the damaging impact of stress in early childhood on their lives. Eventually they came to be in touch with the Frameworks Institute, ...
