Carmit-Noa Shpigelman’s projects

Below are examples of Dr. Shpigelman’s past and current research projects
and community activities:
  1. Promoting the well-being of people with disabilities (SDG-3): Understanding
    the experiences and unmet needs of parents with disabilities and their children;
    Using digital communication technology to maintain contact between older
    adults with intellectual disabilities who live in out-of-home supported
    residence and their families during COVID-19; A (voluntarily) member of
    Access Israel.
  2.  Promoting inclusive education (SDG-4): Exploring the experiences of students
    with disabilities and administrative and academic staff members toward
    making the academic environment more accessible; A (voluntarily) member of
    the advisory committee for a social enterprise – "Flying toward the academic
    degree” – aimed to support the needs of students with disabilities.
  3.  Promoting gender equality (SDG-5): Research projects that focus on the
    empowerment of women and mothers with disabilities.
  4.  Reducing inequality in society (SDG-10): A member of a local musical
    ensemble of singers with and without a disability.
  5.  Promoting the rights of people with disabilities (SDG-16): An academic
    representative of a round table managed by the Ministry of Law on the right of
    adults with disabilities to become parents; A co-chairwoman of “Haifa Forum
    of Disability Studies” to promote critical and ethical discussions on issues
    related to the people with disabilities. 

 
More publications are available here:
https://cris.haifa.ac.il/en/persons/carmit-noa-shpigelman/publications