Presenters and Abstracts

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Name	Presentation Title
Simone Aspis Shaping our Lives National User Network	A key issue for the future: relating disability studies to the diversity of disabled people
Andrew Azzopardi	Understanding disability politics in Malta: new directions explored
Sharon Barnartt Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA	Characteristics of disability protests around the world 1969 - present
Colin Barnes (Plenary Speaker) Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds	Disability studies: what's the point?
Peter Burke Department of Social Work, University of Hull	Brothers and sisters of children with disabilities: Disability by association
Clare Connors Centre for Applied Social Studies, University of Durham	Barriers to 'being': the psycho-emotional dimension of disability in the lives of disabled children
Victoria Eathorne, Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust	Supporting health care students with disability in the clinical environment
Sally French King Alfred’s College of Higher Education in Winchester	Neglected voices in disability studies: the case of older visually impaired people
Natalia Gerodetti University of Lausanne	"Disabling" femininities and eugenics: sexuality, disability and citizenship in modern Switzerland
Dan Goodley Inclusive Education and Equality Research Centre, University of Sheffield	Structures, social constructions and stories: the debate thus far
Dan Goodley Inclusive Education and Equality Research Centre, University of Sheffield	De/constructing 'learning difficulties' in educational contexts
Jennifer Harris (Plenary Speaker) Social Policy Research Unit, University of York	Ostrich politics: exploring the place of social care in disability studies
Peter Hick University of Manchester	Learning and teaching together: working in partnership with people with learning difficulties on a new BA programme
Richard A. Ingram University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada	"You're not making sense": psychiatrization and internal exile
Sarah James Essex Social Services	Social model in practice?
Lesley Jordan Middlesex University	Barriers and enablers to work: stroke survivors' and employers' experiences
Amit Kama The Open University of Israel	The coveted positioning on the human axis: disabled persons' experiences with their representations
G. N. Karna School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University	Disability studies in India: emerging issues and trends
Devva Kasnitz University of California, Berkeley	A sociocultural model of impairment-disability
Kate Kaul York University in Toronto, Canada	Figuring disability
Gwynnyth Llewellyn University of Sydney, Australia	At risk of homelessness: disabling discourse and practices with families of disabled children
Janice McLaughlin Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Newcastle	Screening networks: shared agendas in feminist and disability movement challenges to antenatal screening and abortion
Osamu Nagase University of Tokyo	"Aoi Shiba" and denial of love and justice
Hossein Nahvinejad	Performance of community-based rehabilitation planning (CBR) in rural areas of Iran
Mary-Ann O'Donovan Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street	Advertising ideology and the social process of disability
Gill Parkinson Educational Support and Inclusion Research and Teaching Group, University of Manchester	'Access to work' - enabling or disabling individuals with disabilities in employment: an autobiographical case study
Mark Priestley Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds	Disability, generation and the life course
Donna Reeve Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University	'Encounters with strangers': psycho-emotional dimensions of disability in everyday life
Sara Ryan School of Social Studies, University of Warwick	"I'm sorry, she's special needs": explaining learning disabilities in public encounters
Sonali Shah Social Policy, Nottingham University	The mark of childhood on disabled professionals
Tom Shakespeare PEALS, Bioscience Centre	Culling the sacred cows: from disability slogans to disability studies
Russell Shuttleworth Human Sexuality Studies Program, San Francisco State University	The case for a focus on sexual access in a critical approach to disability and sexuality research
Inge Storgaard Bonfils Center for Ligebehandling af Handicappede	Co-operation and corporative structures in Danish disability policy
Carol Thomas (Plenary Speaker) Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University	Defining a theoretical agenda for disability studies
Rannveig Traustadottir University of Iceland	Gender and disability research in the Nordic countries
Claire Tregaskis Inclusive Education and Equality Research Centre, University of Sheffield	Applying the social model in practice: some lessons from countryside recreation
Jan Walmsley School of Health and Social Welfare, The Open University	Inclusive learning disability research: the (non disabled) researcher's role
Mitzi Waltz School of Arts Design Media and Culture, University of Sunderland	Reading case studies of people with autistic spectrum disorders: a cultural and media studies approach to issues of disability representation
Richard Wistow University of Durham	A profile of employment officers for disabled people
Brian Woods Science and Technology Studies Unit, Department of Sociology, University of York	Power to independence: a historical glimpse at the interactions between powered wheelchairs and the physically disabled students program at Berkeley
Gerry Zarb (Plenary Speaker) Disability Rights Commission	Running out of steam? the impact of research on disability policy and the disability rights agenda