All Outputs (8)

Disability rights and robotics: Being there without being there (2023)
Book Chapter
Savage, S., & Curran, T. (2023). Disability rights and robotics: Being there without being there. In S. Robinson, & K. R. Fisher (Eds.), Research Handbook on Disability Policy (631). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing

We are Sophie and Tillie, and we worked together on the Disability Rights and Robotics project, at the University of the West of England, as co-researchers in a diverse group including disabled people, carers, students, and academics from social scie... Read More about Disability rights and robotics: Being there without being there.

Theory, ethics and methods: International disabled children’s childhoods (2020)
Book Chapter
Underwood, K., Moreno-Angarita, M., Curran, T., Runswick-Cole, K., & Wertlieb, D. (2020). Theory, ethics and methods: International disabled children’s childhoods. In D. Goodley, K. Runswick-Cole, & K. Liddiard (Eds.), Interventions in Disabled Childhood Studies (65-67). (1). Sheffield: iHuman Press

The everyday worlds of disabled children (2018)
Book Chapter
Curran, T., Runswick-Cole, K., & Liddiard, K. The everyday worlds of disabled children. In G. Thomas, & D. Sakellariou (Eds.), Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday. London: Routledge. Manuscript submitted for publication

Drawing on our work in the developing area of disabled children's childhood studies, we expose the ways in which disabled children's lives are so often overshadowed by what we describe as the tyranny of the norm and by mundane everyday disablism. How... Read More about The everyday worlds of disabled children.

Disabled children’s childhood studies and leadership as experts by experience: Learning activism in health and social care education (2018)
Book Chapter
Curran, T., Sayers, R., & Percy-Smith, B. (2018). Disabled children’s childhood studies and leadership as experts by experience: Learning activism in health and social care education. In K. Runswick-Cole, T. Curran, & K. Liddiard (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled CHildren's Childhood Studies. Palgrave MacMillan

People involved in disabled children’s childhood studies, and others who contribute their experience of using health and social care services, strongly object to being seen by professionals as ‘the problem’. In contrast Experts by Experience involved... Read More about Disabled children’s childhood studies and leadership as experts by experience: Learning activism in health and social care education.

The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation (2017)
Book Chapter
Savage, S. (2018). The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation. In K. Runswick-Cole, T. Curran, & K. Liddiard (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies (41-56). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9

This chapter presents a personal reflection on my childhood with liver disease, including thoughts on going to school with chronic illness, my family and undergoing transplantation. The chapter is presented under the framework set out at the begin... Read More about The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation.

Disabled children's childhood studies: Alternative relations and forms of authority? (2013)
Book Chapter
Curran, T. (2013). Disabled children's childhood studies: Alternative relations and forms of authority?. In T. Curran, & K. Runswick-Cole (Eds.), Disabled Children's Childhood Studies: Critical approaches in a Global Context (121-135). UK: Palgrave Macmillan

Social work with children with speech, language and communication needs (2012)
Book Chapter
Curran, T. (2012). Social work with children with speech, language and communication needs. In S. Roulstone, & S. McLeod (Eds.), Listening to Children and Young People with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (167-179). Guildford, Surrey: J&R Press Ltd

Living and working in a diverse world (2011)
Book Chapter
Curran, T. (2011). Living and working in a diverse world. In B. Oliver, & R. Pittson (Eds.), Working with Children, Young People and Families (121-137). Exeter: Learning Matters