{"id":1269,"date":"2017-12-01T14:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T19:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:12","slug":"adrian-chan-and-the-new-research-and-education-in-accessibility-design-and-innovation-readi-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/2017\/adrian-chan-and-the-new-research-and-education-in-accessibility-design-and-innovation-readi-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Chan and the new Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Adrian Chan and the new Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) program\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/people\/chan\/\">Adrian Chan<\/a> hosted the <em>Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi)<\/em> program symposium Monday Nov 27, which launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/readi\/\">READI<\/a> program. Prof. Chan was awarded $1.65 million from NSERC for this initiative, which performs research on providing support for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All NSERC CREATE grants were announced at the symposium, which featured the following speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Honourable Kent Hehr (Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Pierre Charest (NSERC Vice-President Research Grants and Scholarships Directorate)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mme Yazmine Laroche, (Associate Deputy Minister, Infrastructure and Communities)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alfred Spencer (Director, Accessibility Directorate of Ontario)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Keith Gordon (Vice-President Research, CNIB)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Alastair Summerlee (Interim President and Vice-Chancellor, Carleton University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See these news releases for details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2017\/11\/27\/nserc-awards-carletons-adrian-chan-1-65-million-to-support-accessibility-program\/\">Carleton University Newsroom<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Media-Media\/ResearchNewsDetails-NouvellesSurLaRechercheDetails_eng.asp?ID=950\">NSERC news release<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSERC_CRSNG\/status\/935191286990213121\">NSERC twitter announcement<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/the-pulse-on-amiaudio\/e\/52460862?autoplay=true\">The Pulse podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Chan hosted the Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) program symposium Monday Nov 27, which launched the READI program. Prof. Chan was awarded $1.65 million from NSERC for this initiative, which performs research on providing support for people with disabilities. All NSERC CREATE grants were announced at the symposium, which featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}