Outputs

Journal Articles

Ellis, J.,  Atkinson, L.,  Glover, S.,  Kettle, J.,  Joseph, G.,  Hale, J.,  Jones, A.,  Coles, M.,  Bligh, L.,  Bridgens, R.,  O'Kane, C.,  Negus, J.,  Ali, H.,  Thompson, C.,  Waters, S.,  Coats, C.,  Gibson, B.,  Weiner, K., Lawson, R., and Liddiard, K. (2025) 'Cripping Inquiry: Breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies', Special Issue: Frontiers in Sociology Novel Sociological Methods and Practices of Engagement across Disability Communities, Vol 10: doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1600693

Goodley, D., Liddiard, K. and Lawthom, R. (2025) 'The Depathologising University.' Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 27" 1: 120–133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1240

Liddiard, K., Atkinson, L., Evans, K., Gibson, B., Goodley, D., Hale, J., Lawson, R., Runswick-Cole, K., Spurr, R., Vogelmann, E., Watts, L., Weiner, K., and Whitney-Mitchell, S. (2024) '“No-one’s contribution is more valid than another’s”: Committing to inclusive democratic methodologies', Research in Education: Democratic Methodologies in Education Research (Special Issue). Online first available here. 

Blog posts (external blog posts published outside of our project blog)

Atkinson, L., Hale, J. and Liddiard, K. (2024) 'Rethinking Crip time and embodiment in research', The Polyphony. Online. Available here

Talks

Co-producing research with disabled and chronically ill people, Dr Julie Ellis and Dr Kirsty Liddiard, School of Education and iHuman, University of Sheffield, a talk for the South Yorkshire Children and Young People's Health Research Group (SCYPHeR), March 2025

Co-production is a collaborative approach that values experiential knowledge and lived experience.  It fundamentally challenges the hierarchical ways in which most knowledge is produced and instead puts ‘principles of empowerment into practice, working “with” communities and offering communities greater control over the research process’ (Durose et al. 2012: 2). In  practice this is not easy, and often researchers who commit to the principles of co-production - centring equity, accessibility and reciprocity in their work - have to ‘feel’ their way through the research process and navigate an external research environment wary of the unknowing and uncertainty which is an inherent (and productive) part of co-produced research. To support others engaging in or aspiring to undertake co-production, our talk will offer reflections from our own experiences of working on two co-produced, qualitative research projects. Living Life to the Fullest (ESRC) explored the lives, hopes, desires and contributions of disabled children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening impairments, and the second, is a current study, Cripping Breath (Wellcome Trust) which centres the lived experiences of people who have had their lives saved and sustained by ventilatory medical technologies. We will discuss practical aspects of co-leading research with communities of disabled and chronically ill people (such as collaborative data analysis and writing for publication), and acknowledge the important ways in which working in this way disrupts our ‘comfortable’ academic ways of understanding (and engaging in) knowledge production.