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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.

An international conversation on disabled children's childhoods: Theory, ethics and methods (2020)
Journal Article
Curran, T., Underwood, K., Moreno Angarita, M., Runswick-Cole, K., & Wertlieb, D. (2020). An international conversation on disabled children's childhoods: Theory, ethics and methods. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.699

This article brings together members of the International Advisory Committee for the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project, a longitudinal study of interactions with institutional processes when families have a young child with d... Read More about An international conversation on disabled children's childhoods: Theory, ethics and methods.

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

Disabled young people's hopes and dreams in a rapidly changing society: A co-production peer research study (2020)
Journal Article
Curran, T., Jones, M., Ferguson, S., Reed, M., Lawrence, A., Cull, N., & Stabb, M. (2021). Disabled young people's hopes and dreams in a rapidly changing society: A co-production peer research study. Disability and Society, 36(4), 561-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2020.1755234

The idea that disabled young people should be at the centre of decision making about their future is promoted in policy, practice and research, yet this often translates into a narrow agenda on transitions through service and benefits systems. In thi... Read More about Disabled young people's hopes and dreams in a rapidly changing society: A co-production peer research study.

Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures (2020)
Report
Curran, T., Savage, S., Gibson, A., Clarke, J., Morgan, S., Edwards, K., …Comandur, K. (2020). Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures. University of the West of England

This project brought together a team of 25 co-researchers from the University of the West of England, Fairfield Farm College and Wiltshire Centre of Independent Living. The co-researchers are a diverse group including disabled people, carers, student... Read More about Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures.

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.

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.

‘Rights indictors: Using disabled children’s childhood studies' (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Curran, T. (2017, June). ‘Rights indictors: Using disabled children’s childhood studies'. Paper presented at ISCI 2017: 6th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators, Montreal, Canada

This paper asks how disabled children’s childhood studies can inform the development of child rights indicators. The use of child development and the medical model of disability is generally justified on the grounds that they enable us to identify ch... Read More about ‘Rights indictors: Using disabled children’s childhood studies'.

Disabled children's childhoods: What are the research priorities? (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Curran, T. (2016, July). Disabled children's childhoods: What are the research priorities?. Paper presented at 24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavorial Development, Vilnius, Lithuania

This paper discusses the discourses of childhood and disability to develop research questions that are concerned with disabled children's childhoods. The three principles proposed focus on the views of disabled children; discuss the ethics involved a... Read More about Disabled children's childhoods: What are the research priorities?.

Foucault and the government of disability (2016)
Journal Article
Curran, T. (2016). Foucault and the government of disability. Disability and Society, 31(3), 434-437. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2016.1141572

In this second edition of Foucault and the Government of Disability there are four new chap- ters in Part v, ‘Disability and Governmentality in the Present’, but it is a book worth reading from the start for the rst time and for the second time. Thi... Read More about Foucault and the government of disability.

The PMLD ambiguity: Articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (2015)
Journal Article
Curran, T. (2015). The PMLD ambiguity: Articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Disability and Society, 30(7), 1129-1131. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1037559

The PMLD Ambiguity questions the passive construction of children and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) viewing PMLD people as having complex, dynamic and varied forms of shared and personal experience. It is based on Ben... Read More about The PMLD ambiguity: Articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach? (2014)
Journal Article
Curran, T., & Runswick-Cole, K. (2014). Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach?. Disability and Society, 29(10), 1617-1630. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2014.966187

© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This paper suggests that the emergence of disabled children’s childhood studies as an area of study offers a distinct approach to inquiry; it represents a significant shift away from the long-standing deficit discou... Read More about Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach?.

Disabled children's childhood studies in a global context: Creative contributions to change (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Curran, T., & Runswick-Cole, K. (2014, April). Disabled children's childhood studies in a global context: Creative contributions to change

We introduce the emergence of disabled children’s childhood studies; present stories about home, school, and community life by disabled children, parents, and disabled adults; and discuss ethical research toward change in a global context.

A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services (2014)
Journal Article
Curran, T., Oliver, B., & Benjamin, C. (2014). A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services. Journal of Social Work, 14(4), 360-379. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017313477977

Summary: This article is based on a study commissioned to find out how agencies providing children’s services in England used workforce development research in the transformation of children’s services. Workforce development research is primarily abo... Read More about A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services.

Leadership course evaluation with patient and public involvement (2011)
Report
Moule, P., Young, P., Albarran, J., Oliver, B., Curran, T., Hopkinson, C., …Rice, C. (2011). Leadership course evaluation with patient and public involvement

Executive Summary 1. This project had two components, the evaluation of a Developing and Enhancing Leadership and Management Skills programme delivered to 150 frontline supervisory and senior managers in North Bristol NHS Trust and the implementatio... Read More about Leadership course evaluation with patient and public involvement.

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

Disabled Children in Childhood Studies (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Curran, T. (2010, May). Disabled Children in Childhood Studies. Paper presented at Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Interrogating Normativity in Childhood Studies Conference, Philadelphia, USA

Social work and disabled children's childhoods: A foucauldian framework for practice transformation (2010)
Journal Article
Curran, T. (2010). Social work and disabled children's childhoods: A foucauldian framework for practice transformation. British Journal of Social Work, 40(3), 806-825. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcn140

This paper examines how social work operates as a system of exclusion and inclusion and influences disabled children's childhoods. It is based on an action research project that aimed to promote 'listening' to disabled children in social work. A Fouc... Read More about Social work and disabled children's childhoods: A foucauldian framework for practice transformation.

Discourse action research listening with foucault (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Curran, T. (2007, September). Discourse action research listening with foucault. Paper presented at 8th Advances in Qualitative Methods, University of Alberta, Banff Canada

Power, participation and post modernism: User and practitioner participation in mental health social work education (1997)
Journal Article
Curran, T. (1997). Power, participation and post modernism: User and practitioner participation in mental health social work education. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 16(3), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479711220221

The focus of this paper is service user and social work practitioner participation in the teaching for the mental health social work course. A review of the programme seeks to illuminate the value and significance of participation. The obstacles expo... Read More about Power, participation and post modernism: User and practitioner participation in mental health social work education.

Points of view (1996)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Ashworth, S., & Curran, T. (1996). Points of view