Presenters and Abstracts

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Name	Presentation Title
Ditte Rose Andersen PPR Frederiksberg, Denmark	Stereotypical and peculiar - on understandings of autism and positioning of autistic subjects (poster presentation)
Larry Arnold Autism Centre for Educational Research, University of Birmingham	Does medical research in autism proceed "arse backwards"?
Larry Arnold Autism Centre for Educational Research, University of Birmingham	Video and education in autism - (poster presentation)
Ole Petter Askheim Lillehammer University College, Norway	Personal assistance in Norway and Sweden: From difference to convergence?
Karen Beauchamp-Pryor	The 'involvement' of disabled people in the development of disability policy and provision is now high on the Government's agenda, but in practice, whose voice actually dominates these processes?
Angharad Beckett University of Leeds	'Inclusive classrooms need inclusive literature': a qualitative content analysis of primary age children's literature about disability
Dawn Benson University Northumbria	Equal Access in Shaping Your Services - with a little help from some friends: reflecting on the evolution of participatory research
Peter Beresford Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University	Towards A Social Model Of Madness And Distress: Reporting the findings from a new user controlled research study of service users' views
John Bertelsen Resource Centre for Special Needs Education, ViSP - Denmark	*Breaking the isolation
Kiran P Bhagwat	Does RNIB produce a good example of design for visually impaired/blind people? (poster presentation)
Theo Blackmore Plymouth University	"Half of my friends don't even see me as disabled" : What can field, capital and habitus reveal about disability, inclusion and exclusion?
Theo Blackmore Cornwall Disability Research Network	Cornwall Disability Research Network (poster presentation)
Simone Borsci Interuniversity Center for Research in Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems, University of Rome, Italy	Global Rank: Improving a qualitative and inclusive level of web accessibility
Lorna Bourke Liverpool Hope University	The psycho-social and emotional experience of physical disablement for children and their families in Malawi
Toby Brandon Northumbria University	Obesity and Fattism - A Comparison to Three Models of Disability
Christine Brown Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario	A Day at the Museum: Disability Activism and Things to Remember
Susan Buell Manchester Metropolitan University	A Meeting of Minds: Exploring the Boundaries of the Social Model of Disability in Bolivia
Peter Burke University of Hull	Brothers and sisters of disabled children: revisiting the experience of disability by association
Nicholas Campbell Office for Disability issues	Office for Disability Issues (poster presentation)
Bernadette Cassidy Allan Bean Centre for Research and Learning in Rehabilitation	The Role of Information in Supporting People with Disabilities Return to Independence
Gustavo García Chacón Universidad Católica Andrés Bello	Formal equality and substantial equality: the situation of handicapped people in Venezuela and Canada (poster presentation)
Nicholas Cimini University of Sheffield	*Struggles online over the meaning of disability
Tabitha Collingbourne School of Law, University of Sheffield	*Muddling through? The UK, economic and social rights and the Disability Rights Convention
Andrea M. Cooke University of Illinois, USA	*The Impact of Globalization on the Third World and on People With Psychiatric Disabilities
Helen Crowley RUA St John of God Hospitaller Services	Sexuality Support, Policy and Practice: Getting it Right
Tillie Curran University of West of England	Social Workers, Disabled Children and Organisations of Disabled People: A Cycle of Practice Transformation Towards Desirable Ways of Living
Patrick Devlieger K.U.Leuven	The making of "Hearing and Touching Leuven": Blindness and multi-sensorial experience in cities
Jocelyn Dodd University of Leicester	Rethinking Disability Representation: absence and attitude
Leanne Dowse University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia	Insurrection and Resistance: exploring the activist 'self' in self- advocacy by people with intellectual disability
Claire Edwards University of Cork	The geographies of disability and a re-evaluation of the social relations of research production
Liz Ellis University of Plymouth/ CDRN	In/dependency, Interdependency and Resistance in the Lives of People with Learning Difficulties
Kate Esser Plymouth University	Dyspraxia: the Silent Sister
Miguel Ferreira Complutense University of Madrid	*A new disability interpretative theoretical-sociological framework: critical theory, citizenship and gender
Miguel Ferreira Complutense University of Madrid	Disability's identity: work hypotheses of an Spanish research Project (poster presentation)
Ines Figueiredo Alves Consiglio Nazionale sulla Disabilita (Italy)	MURINET and the human rights approach to disability (poster presentation)
Karen Fisher Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney	*My money matters - findings from direct payments research
Christina Fleetwood Nordic School of Public Health	Collaboration between handicap organizations and the health care sector (poster presentation)
Jennie Fleming De Montfort University	The Standards We Expect
Petra Flieger Institute of Educational Science - University of Innsbruck, Austria	*Project Presentation - "The Painting of a disabled man"
Jenny Ford De Montfort University	Learning to listen: a partnership project (poster presentation)
Cristina Francisco Circulo de Mujeres con Discapacidad (CIMUDIS)	Women with disability and the barriers for get health services (poster presentation)
Mariela Gaete-Reyes King's College London	The impaired body, the technology of the wheelchair and the environment
Ruth Garbutt School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds	Exploring the barriers to sex and relationships for people with learning difficulties
Chan Kim Geok University of Malaya	Parents of Child with Down's Syndrome: Their Care-giving Experiences, Parent - Child Communicative Pattern at Home and Perceived Quality of Life: A Pilot Study
Michael Glennon Universiteit van Amsterdam - International School for Humanities and Social Sciences	Notes on subjectification and the research of community based group homes for developmentally disabled: constituting nomadology as emancipatory method for ethnographers who won't sit still
Danny Goodley Manchester Metropolitan University	The odd, different and disruptive: Towards a productive psychology and critical disability studies
Danny Goodley Manchester Metropolitan University	Does every child matter, post-Blair? The interconnections of disabled childhoods (poster presentation)
Lorraine Gradwell (Plenary Speaker) Breakthrough UK Ltd	*In practice the theory is different: The challenges of making a difference in a disabling world
Carolyn Gutman Tel Hai Academic College	Communities of Practice: The Development of a Disability Studies' Curriculum
Beth Haller Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA	Soldiers & Symbols: Images of Disabled Veterans in U.S. Political Cartoons
Astrid Halsa Høgskolen i Lillehammer, Norway	Madness and motherhood- mothering alone
Carol Hamilton N.I.I.D Trinity College	Sexuality Support and Social Meaning - Exploring the difference between 'good' sex and 'bad'
Jennifer Harris University of Dundee	Direct Payment Employers: Challenging the social relations of support
Jennifer Harris University of Dundee	Issues in technology usage for disabled people in the UK (poster presentation)
Marian Hawkesworth University of Manchester	The care of the visible self
Pauline Heslop Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol	*Why do people with learning disabilities say they self-injure?
Andy Hill De Montfort University	Policing Dyslexia - beyond the Laptop & Stab proof Vest
Nick Hodge Sheffield Hallam University	Tales from the Battlefield: the challenges of parent-professional partnership
Stephen Lee Hodgkins University of Northampton / DITO	Discoursing Disability; The Personal and Political Positioning of Disabled People in Talk and Textwork
Andrea Hollomotz School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds	Sexual 'vulnerability' of people with learning difficulties: a self-fulfilling prophecy
Laurence Hopkins Liverpool Hope University	Disabled students in Higher Education: taking the path of least resistance (poster presentation)
David Hosking University of Leicester	*The Theory of Critical Disability Theory
Zoe Hughes Institute for Intellectual Disability, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland	Getting political: The experience of students with intellectual disabilities in University politics
Jens Ineland Department of social work, Umeå university, Sweden & Department for health and social science, University College of Harstad, Norway	The story about Theatre organisation, the Publics approval and the Actors identity processes in Nordic Disability Theatre
Jeong-Ki Kam Centre for Disability Studies, Leeds University	*On the Concept of Ambivalent Disablism
Hisayo Katsui Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University	Why International Cooperation to Deal with Disability? Politics of the Article 32 of the Convention
Berni Kelly Queen's University of Belfast	"Some people think I am different, but I see myself as an equal person to everybody else": Exploring Identities of Young Disabled People at School
Grace Kelly University College Cork	Sexual Rights and Intellectual Disability - Balancing Stakeholder's Views
Patrick Kermit Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management	Bioethical discussions on paediatric cochlear implantation: Obscuring the view by constructing an antinomy where 'nature' is set up against 'convention'?
Birgit Kirkebæk VIKOM,The Danish Resource Centre of Children and Young People with Multiple Disabilities	*The invisible ones
Debbie Kramer-Roy Brunel University	Concepts of and attitudes towards disability in the Pakistani community in the UK
Kristjana Kristiansen Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Madness in the mountains: lessons of mental health and resilience in exploring everyday life for people in recovery with 'psychosis'
Jukka Kumpuvuori The Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University	Legal Strategies in the Advocacy Activities of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities - Global Perspectives
Emily Last King's College London	Participation or marginalisation? Disabled citizens and the local governance of access
Yvonne Latham Lancaster University	Making Connections: Disabilities, Technologies and Affordances
Rebecca Lawthom Manchester Metropolitan University	Psychosocial resources to unpack disablism: global case studies, social psychoanalytic possibilities
Sarah Lewthwaite Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham	Forward Slash Disability: Social experiences of disability online, in and around higher education
Ema Loja Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences - University of Porto	The impact of social and political disability discourses on the experience of physical disability in Portugal
Claudia Malacrida University of Lethbridge	Work, Education, and Privilege: A Small Town’s Parasitical Relationship to a Total Institution for 'Mental Defectives'
Rebecca Mallett Sheffield Hallam University	Theorising Comedic Immunity: Or, What Do You Get When You Cross Contemporary Comedy with Disability?
Nicola Martin Sheffield Hallam University	*Towards an inclusive environment for university students who have Asperger syndrome (AS)
Raul Mideros University of Leeds	Latin American Perspectives on Disability and Disability Studies
Hilda Beatriz Miranda-Galarza Leeds University	The construction of 'intellectual disability' in Ecuador: From the lack of a sense to a matter of development
Hilda Beatriz Miranda-Galarza Leeds University	Family and disability: a social and cultural analysis of intellectual disability in Ecuador (poster presentation)
Marta Moretti Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Education	Do the education systems reproduce the existing social structure and with it, social differences? The power of a label (poster presentation)
Ghasem Norouzi School of Education & Psychology of Isfahan University, Iran	Mainstream employment for people with the label of 'Learning Difficulties': the experiences and perspectives of supported employment providers (SEPs)
Cheryl Nosworthy The University of Reading	Mind-Body Spaces of Human - Non-human Communication: A Socio-spatial Study of 'Disabled' and 'Non-disabled' Horse-riders
Ana B Pereira Faculty of Economics / Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Voyage to the Inside of the Shadow: Women, Disability, Chronic Illness and Invisibility in an Ableist Society
Deborah Phillips Cornwall College	Learning Difficulties, Embodiment and Landscapes: narrative accounts of lives, labels, spaces and place
Mark Priestley University of Leeds	*Participating in the European Research Agenda
Rachel Purtell Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry	Issues of Death and Dying for Disability Studies
Parvaneh Rabiee Social Policy Research Unit, University of York	Choice: What, when and why? Exploring the importance of choice to disabled people
Michael Rasell University of Birmingham	Separation, society and the state: Living with disabilities in Russia
Janet Read School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick	Disabled Children in the UK: Characteristics and household circumstances
Marcus Redley Cambridge University	Understanding the stalled welfare of citizens with learning disabilities
Donna Reeve Lancaster University	Homo sacer, states of exception and zones of indistinction: What can the work of Agamben offer disability studies?
Solveig Magnus Reindal NLA, School of Religion, Education and Intercultural studies	Disability, Capability and Special Needs Education. A theoretical framework
Julie Ridley University of Central Lancashire	Disclosing disability - conflict for student and qualified social workers, teachers and nurses
Julie Ridley University of Central Lancashire	Experiences of compulsory care and treatment in Scotland (poster presentation)
Griet Roets Department of Social Welfare Studies, Ghent University, Belgium	Unravelling Mr. President's Nomad Lands: Travelling to Interdisciplinary Frontiers of Knowledge in Disability Studies
Chrissie Rogers Brunel University	*(S)excerpts from a life told: sex, gender and learning disability
Irene Rose Manchester University	Disability Studies in the Cultural Studies Classroom
Emma Jane Rowlett University of Nottingham	*Print Impairment in Higher Education
Sara Ryan DIPEx Research Unit, University of Oxford	"It's like you are just a spectator in this thing": experiencing social life the 'aspie' way
Katherine Runswick-Cole Manchester Metropolitan University	Liminal lives: non-disabled mothers and the disability world
Staffan Sanden Halmstad University, Sweden and The Swedish Institute for Disability Research	Citizenship - Disabled People's Perceptions and Definitions
Teela Sanders School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds	The Right to Sexual Pleasure: Disability; Commercial Sex and Activism
Ruth Sayers Strategies for Working Group	Life's Labours Lost - A study of the experiences of people who lost their occupation following mental health problems (poster presentation)
Sonali Shah University of Leeds	Future Selves: Career Choices of Young Disabled People
Sonali Shah University of Leeds	The time of our lives: understanding disability through life history (poster presentation)
Michael Shamash	Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour
Yi-Ting Shih Newcastle University	Belonging (poster presentation)
Russell Shuttleworth Sexual Health Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney	Toward an Inclusive Sexuality and Disability Research Agenda
Armineh Soorenian University Of Leeds	Barriers in education for disabled international students
Kirsten Stalker University of Strathclyde	The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and Adults with Learning Disabilities
Brendan Stone University of Sheffield	Madness and distress: From individual to collective narratives
Naoko Taira The University of Leeds, Seinan Gakuin University	Challenging Stigma and Discrimination: The experience of mental health service users in Japan
Antti Teittinen Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	Three perspectives on deinstitutionalisation process: a Finnish case
Pedro M. Teixeira Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - University of Porto	Empowerment and disability - An organizational analysis in Portugal
Ravi K. Thiara University of Warwick	*Making the Links: Disabled Women and Domestic Violence
Muhammad Mobin Uddin Disabled Peoples International	Supporting Independent Living
Katja Vuoti Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	Does successful interaction relationship hold the key to community participation? Promoting communication between people with severe intellectual disabilities and their communication partners
Scott Allan White Ryerson School of Disability Studies & Toronto School of Homeopathic Medicine	no-name (non-diagnostic medical models and the social construction of disability)
Mary Wickenden Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, University of Sheffield	Listen to Me: How 12 teenagers who use AAC represent themselves
Alison Wilde University of York	Homophily, special educational needs and processes of educational inclusion
Deborah Williams Reality Productions/University of York	That joke isn't funny any more: Impairment, disability and audience in the films of the Farrelly brothers
Jannine Williams Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University	Disabled Academics' Career and Organizational Experiences
Timothy Williamson Warwick Medical School	Staff perceptions of pain in people with a learning disability: an emergency department investigation (poster presentation)
Sarah Woodin University of Leeds	Whose Money? Control Over Direct Payments
Simon Wing Kuen Wu City University of Hong Kong	A critical review on the built environment policy for disabled people in Hong Kong in a decade: Progress or regress?
Borgunn Ytterhus Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Managing turning-points and transitions in childhood and parenthood - insights from families with disabled children in Norway