Contact
Email: mharniss@uw.edu
Phone: 206.685.0289
Biography
Mark Harniss, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine, Director of the Center for Technology and Disability Studies, and Director of the UW Disability Studies Program. His research focuses on knowledge translation, assistive technology and accessible design. He teaches in both the Disability Studies Program and the Rehabilitation Medicine doctoral program with an emphasis on knowledge translation and disability policy. He is PI of the NIDILRR-funded ADA Knowledge Translation Center.
Mark is co-investigator on the NIDILRR-funded RRTC on Employment of People with Physical Disabilities where he leads a project focused on developing decision aids to support people with disabilities to request reasonable accommodations and co-investigator on a NIDILRR-funded DRRP that is developing an accommodation expert support system for people who are aging.
More about Dr. Harniss …
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- COVID-19 and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Implications for employment and higher education October 2, 2023
- Infusing disability equity within rehabilitation education and practice: A qualitative study of lived experiences of ableism, allyship, and healthcare partnership October 3, 2022
- Accessibility Considerations in the National Children's Study May 3, 2021
- Perspectives on a mobile application that maps assistive technology resources in Africa September 20, 2019
- Lessons from the pilot of a mobile application to map assistive technology suppliers in Africa May 1, 2018
- M.S., Instructional Technology, Utah State University
- Ph.D., Special Education, University of Oregon
Knowledge Translation, Assistive Technology, Accessible Design, Disability Studies.
