Ms Rosemary Kayess

Ms Rosemary Kayess

Senior Research Fellow
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
Social Policy Research Centre
Phone
+61 2 9385 7832
Location
134 Goodsell Building

2015 – ACDL’s Volunteer Program for the CLCNSW Award. 

Awarded as part of Law and Justice Foundation’s annual Justice Awards. This award recognises a volunteer or volunteer program that has demonstrated outstanding commitment to improving access to justice. 

2014 – Dean’s Award for Research Society Impact

The Awards celebrate excellent research performance by academics in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences.

2005 – Nominated for the Australian Human Rights Medal

Australian Human Right Awards. Nominated for my body of work in the field of human rights and disability.

2004 - Law and Justice Foundation, Combined Community Legal Centres Volunteer Award

Awarded as part of Law and Justice Foundation’s annual Justice Awards. This award recognises a volunteer or volunteer program that has demonstrated outstanding commitment to improving access to justice

1995 - University of NSW, Alumni Award

Every year UNSW formally recognises former students, both in Australia and overseas, who have achieved distinction in their field of endeavour. The UNSW Alumni Awards for Achievement are given in recognition of alumni who have made an outstanding contribution to the community, who have stimulated new ideas and services and who have exhibited exceptional dedication, creativity or leadership.

Chairperson, Australian Centre for Disability Law (ACDL) 1995 – present

Member, Disability Reference Group, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).,  2008 - 2016

Member, Core Reference Group, National Seclusion and Restraint Project, National Mental Health Commission,, 2013 - present

Head of Delegation, Human Rights Council, Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Twenty-third session, Geneva, 2-13 November 2015

Delegate, Conference of States Parties of the Convention on  the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. United Nations New York June 2015

Member, Advisory Group, Inquiry into Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws, Australian Law Reform Commission. 2014

Head of Delegation: Youth with Disabilities, Conference of States Parties of the Convention on  the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.  United Nations New York June 2014

Member, Disability Policy Research Working Group Steering Committee, Council of Australian Government (COAG) 2010 – 2014

Head of Delegation, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Tenth Session, United Nations Geneva, September 2 – 13 2013. 1st Periodic Review of Australia

Member, Australian Government Delegation. United Nations General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities June 2002 – August 2006 Eight Sessions