Presenters and Abstracts

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Name	Presentation Title
Andrew Azzopardi University of Malta	Reading stories of inclusion: Engaging with different perspectives towards an agenda for inclusion
Peter Bailey University of Surrey	Gis' a job (you don't have to take us home)
Sharon Barnartt Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.	Deaf women and inequality: Is deafness or femaleness to blame?
Maysaa S. Bazna Columbia University	Disability in the Qur'an: The Islamic alternative to defining, viewing and relating to disability
John Carpenter Centre for Applied Social and Community Studies, University of Durham	Meeting the needs of severely disabled Pakistani and Bangladeshi children and their families
Phil Cotterell Patient and Public Involvement Research Unit, Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	Reflections and projections: Service user involvement in palliative care research
Victoria Eathorne Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust	Supporting Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members with disability in the clinical environment: A workbook to support a workshop (Poster presentation)
Kathryn Ellis Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Luton	Human rights, professional practice and social care: the findings of a small scale research study
Vic Finkelstein Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds	Phase 3: Conceptualising new services
Kelly Fritsch Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	SuperCrip strikes again: Or mine-body dualism
Jennifer Harris Social Policy Research Unit, University of York	'Non-disabled' - an oxymoron? Exploring the foundations of a divisive label
Andy Howes Educational Support and Inclusion, Faculty of Education, University of Manchester	Managers, policies and story-telling
Debbie Jolly Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds	Devolving direct payments: A review of policy development in the UK
Lesley Jordan School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University	Disability paradigms, models and professional practice in rehabilitation
David Kreps Information Systems Institute, University of Salford	The 'visually impaired website': Representing disability on the WWW
Jackie Leach Scully Institut für Geschichte und Epistemologie der Medizin, Universität Basel	Normative ethics and non-normative embodiment
Claudia Malacrida University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada	Subject visions: Ex-Residents' perspectives on life in an institution for "mental defectives"
Rebecca Mallett Department of Geography, University of Sheffield	The attribution of 'authorship' in cultural interpretations of 'disability'
Bruno Daniel Gomes de Sena Martins School of Economy, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Blindness: Cultural and incorporeal productions of a condition
Helen Masterton University of Surrey Roehampton	Culture change in an HEI: the SENDA agenda
Ghasem Norouzi Inclusive Education and Equality Research Centre, University of Sheffield	Employment experiences of the six adults with the label of 'learning difficulties'
Mary-Ann O'Donovan Dublin Institute of Technology	Advertising's role in disability as a social process
Sarah Parker Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney	Searching for the absent citizen: Enabling & (dis)abling discourses of social citizenship
Donna Reeve Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University	Psycho-emotional dimensions of disability within relationships between professionals and disabled people
Sheila Riddell Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh	The impact of supported employment on the mental health and well-being of people with learning difficulties
Ludo Schoeters The Flemish self-advocacy group: Our New Future	Taking the plunge of self-advocacy... some considerations and thoughts about the self-advocacy movement
Mike Shamash	New orthopaedic boots and incontinence panties
Kirsten Stalker University of Stirling	Representations of 'personality disorder'
Roger Steel INVOLVE (formerly Consumers in NHS Research)	A research involvement continuum
Simoni Symeonidou University of Cambridge	Explaining the development of the Cypriot disability movement: A preliminary theoretical model
Elena Tarasenko Institute of Sociology of Russian, Academy of Sciences, Moscow	Problems and perspectives of disability policy in Russia: The move from paternalism towards disability rights?
Floris Tomasini Lancaster University	Using phenomenology in rehabilitating amputees
Jackie Topp School of Health & Social Welfare, The Open University	Narrative analysis as a methodology for disability research: Experiences of pregnancy
Rannveig Traustadottir Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Iceland	Disability studies: A Nordic perspective
Judith Waterfield Staff-Student Partnership for Assessment Change and Evaluation (SPACE) Project, University of Plymouth	Critically responding to current professional practice through the adoption of inclusive methods of assessment