All Outputs (4)

ImaYDiT - Imagining young disabled people's transitions in a time of major societal change: Research project report (2018)
Report
Jones, M., Curran, T., Ferguson, S., Reed, M., Cull, N., Lawrence, A., …Paterson, Z. (2018). ImaYDiT - Imagining young disabled people's transitions in a time of major societal change: Research project report

ImaYDiT was funded by DRILL – Disability Research for Independent Living and Learning. This is supported by the Big Lottery Fund. WiltsCIL staff, members of WiltsCIL Coproduction Group and researchers at UWE came up with the original idea for this p... Read More about ImaYDiT - Imagining young disabled people's transitions in a time of major societal change: Research project report.

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 Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods (2018)
Book
Runswick-Cole, K., Curran, T., & Liddiard, K. (2018). K. Runswick-Cole, T. Curran, & K. Liddiard (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods. Palgrave

Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development ‘norms’ and have provided the r... Read More about The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods.