Maria Pallisera

Dr. Maria Pallisera

University of Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Biography

Full professor at University of Girona, doing research on social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities: transition to adult life, independent living, social and personal relations. In these investigations I have developed a continuous and growing collaboration with professionals, foundations and services, and people with disabilities. Since 2011, my research group that has worked in collaboration with an Advisory Committee made up of people with intellectual disabilities, which helps to align the research carried out by the group with the real problems experienced by people with disabilities. I have recently (2022) coordinate, through a contract with DINCAT (the main second-order association in the field of intellectual disability in Catalonia), an investigation on the Review and Update of the Catalan social services addressed to people with intellectual disability, with the aim of identifying the strengths and weaknesses of current public policies on disability in order to propose improvement actions that allow the alignment of said policies and services with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations, 2006).

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University of Girona

Girona, Catalonia, Spain

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