Towards inclusive employment for people with intellectual disabilities: challenges and impact
This project focuses on the full inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) in regular work environments as a way to promote their social participation and role as citizens. However, two important challenges are identified that may hinder this objective. On the one hand, technological transition and digitalization can limit the access of people with ID to inclusive jobs, since they have traditionally held positions that are easily replaceable by machines. On the other hand, the gender gap, combined with disability, poses additional difficulties for women with ID.
Main researchers of the project:
Vicente Martínez-Tur is University Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Valencia. At this university, he is a member of IDOCAL (Research Institute for HR Psychology, Organizational Development and Quality of Work Life). He is and has been principal investigator in competitive research projects, with topics linked to organizations for people with intellectual disabilities. He has received the psychology medal at the University of Almería and has been the first national research prize from the CEF. He is the current coordinator of the International Consortium for the Erasmus Mundus Master in Work Psychology, Organizations and Human Resources (2017-). He was general secretary of the “European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology” (2011-2015). Currently, he is President-Elect of the International Association of Applied Psychology” (Division 1) (2020-) and coordinates the report “This works in my place!” for the contribution of Work and Organizational Psychology to sustainable development objectives taking into account contextual factors in each region of the world.
Carolina Moliner is a Full Professor at the University of Organizational Psychology at the University of Valencia. She develops her teaching activity in the area of Work Psychology, Organizations and Human Resources. She is part of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Work Psychology, Organizations and Human Resources, in which she has supervised more than 10 Master Theses. She is a researcher at the Research Institute in Human Resources Psychology, Organizational Development and Quality of Work Life at the University of Valencia. She has carried out research stays at the University of Arizona, Portland State University and the University of Veracruz. Throughout her research career she has participated in more than 10 competitive research projects, having been PI in two of them. She is part of the Doctorate Program in Human Resources. She is also part of the International Joint Master of research in Work and Organizational Psychology, which is taught jointly with the Universiteit Maastricht and Universität Lüneburg in its first edition, whose orientation is entirely towards research.
Source: La Agencia Estatal de Investigación
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