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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
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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 |