Mark Harniss, PhD
| Title: | Director of the Center for Technology and Disability Studies; Director of the UW Disability Studies Program, Associate Professor |
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| Division: | Community Engagement & Services |
Mark Harniss, PhD, 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. He 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. He recently completed a NIDILRR-funded knowledge translation grant that was focused on translating evidence about traumatic brain injury to practice within the Washington State Department of Corrections.
Education and Training
- University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Ph.D., Special Education, 1990-1996
- Utah State University, Logan, UT, M.S., Instructional Technology, 1988-1990