Outputs

We are the home to an emerging  Disability Matters Scholarship collection and help curate Disability Dialogues. 

Below are some of our work:

• Conferences
• Lectures, seminars and talks
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Publications 

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Conferences

Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) conference, 2025
Rhea Halsey, Liz Dew, and Lucy Dunning presented a paper on professional services and disability inclusion at the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) conference “Disability in Local and Global Contexts” in early May 2025. Rhea, Liz, and Lucy's paper was adapted and presented at the online symposia in July. Read the script and watch the recording here.

Disability Studies Conference, Leeds, 2024
Members of the team reported on the challenges of supporting disability research in the neoliberal academy with reference to a working paper written by Rhea Halsey, Dan Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom

2nd International Conference on Disability Studies, Thessaloniki, 2024
Rhea Halsey and Dan Goodley presented papers on behalf of the Disability Matters programme at the 2nd International Conference on Disability Studies: Disability Matters: Critically Examining Disablism and Ableism: A collaboration between the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Education, Department of Primary Education, School of Education, University of Sheffield, and iHuman, University of Sheffield.

EDIS Inclusive Leadership, 2023
Dan Goodley was invited to present as part of a panel on Inclusive Leadership at the EDIS2023 event at the Francis Crick institute in London. Dan joined Hamied Haroon, the Chair of National Association of Disabled Staff Networks, to lobby for the centralisation of disabled people in the conceptualisation and management of research. 

Nordic Network of Disability Research, 2023
Dan Goodley offered a soft international launch of the Disability Matters programme during a session to the Nordic Network of Disability Research which was held in Iceland this year. For many this was a first time to reconnect with critical disability studies scholars post-pandemic. Dan joined other members of the Critical Disability Studies team to present on their research and scholarship. A flyer introducing our work with links to project websites can be found here.

Lectures, seminars and talks

Wong, Meng Ee. (2025) Vision Rehabilitation Conference 2025 organized by the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped in August on the topic: Stigma Against the Blind and how to Overcome it.

Wong, Meng Ee. (2025). Define Success Conference 2025 co-organized by the Singapore University of Social Sciences and University of Leeds in September on the topic: Rethinking Merit through the Lens of Disabled Persons Navigating VUCA Environments

Wong, Meng Ee. (2025). Education Exchange Series organized by the National Library Board and National Institute of Education in November on the topic: No Learner Left Behind: Growing an Inclusive Singapore Together.  

Wong, Meng Ee. (2025). NUS SSR-TOUCH Conference on Sustained Well-Being in Future-Ready Communities in November with the topic: Layering Technology to Reframe Merit: A Disability-Inclusive Vision for Future-Ready Communities.

Wong, Meng Ee. (2025). Moderated public forum entitled: Tech Talks: Using Technology to Create Inclusive Spaces at the Singapore Writer's Festival in conjunction with Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology. 

In October, together with Singapore disability scholar Assistant Professor Rachel Chen from Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Kerri presented at the Singapore Health & Biomedical Congress 2025. This presentation, titled "Communicating with Patients with Disabilities," was part of the NTU Medical Humanities Satellite Conference and received positive audience engagement. In September and October, Kerri also gave guest lectures at an NTU Sociology Deviance and Society module, and the National University of Singapore’s Master’s in Urban Planning (NUS MUP) module Qualitative Research for Urban Planning. In these guest lectures, she shared about her Bachelor’s and Master’s research on disability, identity, employment, and education, and also offered insights into improving NUS MUP students’ final research projects on urban planning and Singapore society. 

‘The Depathologising University’, 2025
The Inclusion Leadership Research Interest Group hosted an event on Thursday 19th June 2025, entitled . The RIG’s Co-Convenors, Dr Beth Holmes, Dr Wendy Conrad and Dr Donnie Adams, were joined by guest speaker, Professor Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education in the University of Sheffield’s School of Education, who discussed his work in the field of Critical Disability Studies, and the ways in which academics, researchers and research professional colleagues are depathologising the disablist and ableist university. You can find a recording of Dan's talk here

International Perspectives – Being human as praxis: People with learning disabilities are theorists, researchers and influencers” / Internationale Perspektiven – Menschsein als Praxis: Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten als Theoretiker*innen, Forscher*innen und Influencer
Dan Goodley delivered this seminar on 2nd December 2025 as part of the Wintersemester 2025, ZeDiS-Ringveranstaltung: Revival Intersectional Studies 2.0: Strategien gegen die systematische Demontage kritisch-emanzipatori scher Wissenschaft – Wege zur nachhaltigen Institutionalisierung der Disability Studies, Centre for Disability Studies, Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Work & Diaconal Studies. Rauhe Haus Foundation in Hamburg.

Disability’s Exposition of the Academy: A composite narrative of belonging, community, capacity, and mutuality
Dan Goodley presented this online seminar on the 3rd November 2025, to the USA Society for Disability Studies Seminar.

Addressing Ableism in Academia
Tanya Titchkosky presented at this event organised by by the Centre for Research and Innovation Support (CRIS) at the University of Toronto.  Thursday, Oct 2 2025, 1:00-2:30 pm

The Body Keeps Me Questioning: 100 Years of Frantz Fanon Symposium 
Tanya Titchkosky and Elaine Cagulada each presented a paper at this symposium, held on 17th October 2025, hosted by Trinity Colleague, University of Toronto.

Blogs

Disrupting the Default: Anti-Ableist Research Culture. 
Dan Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom have reflected on the challenges of curating more inclusive university cultures in their recent blogpost for the White Rose Consortium In this piece they consider the aspirations of disability studies to fundamentally reimagine and re-create an academic environment that actively values disability as a source of creativity, critical insight and collective strength. The peice refers to the work of WAARC but is directly informed by the international work of Disability Matters.

'Masking in the Margins: Navigating Academia as Disabled/Chronically ill Women of Colour', 2025
Ankita Mishra's blog post for the Centre for Equity and Inclusion examines the everyday negotiations faced by disabled and/or chronically ill women of colour in academia through composite narratives.

'Transforming Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Through Disability', Polyphony, 2025
Christina Lee explores the concepts and metaphors behind the town hall event and why it is important to centre disability in equity, diversity, and inclusion.

'Disability Matters: Thinking critically about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion', Polyphony, 2023 
This article offers a provocation challenging Equality, Diversity and Inclusion discourse from a critical disability studies perspective - written by Dan Goodley and Kirsty Liddiard.

Podcasts

Ethics in Practice podcast, 2025
In this episode, Nicole Redvers and Christina Lee share their experience of resisting hierarchies and creating space for alternative ways of thinking and being in academia.

Podcast, Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health, 2023 
Refers to a series of free, online events where scholars, health professionals, and the public discuss how arts and humanities can inform healthcare. Hosted by The University of Kent and with the support of the Churchill Foundation, these events seek to develop meaningful dialogue and connection between humanities and medicine. Dan Goodley joined colleague Kirsty Liddiard to discuss the ways in which Disability Matter's Scholarship work offers a paradigm shift to disability as driving subject in the medical humanities. A link to the podcast can be found here

Publications from our team

Titchkosky, T. (forthcoming). Submitted: Fascism taking Flight on a Disability Runway: Analyzing Trump’s Disability Degradation in Turbulent Times. Disability in Turbulent Times (Edward Elgar Publishing). Edited by Patty Douglas, Harriet Cameron and Katherine Rusnwick-Cole.

Chen, K.L., Titchkosky, T., Pope, W., Miller, D. and Gao, Q.L. (in press). The Social Production of Disability in Encounters with Ontario's Right to Read Inquiry: Beyond the Models of Disability. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

Christina, L. (2025). ‘Buddhist Self-Help Healing Narratives and the Meditative Turn’. In Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries, edited by Ioannis Gaitanidis, Sang-yun Han, and Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira. Avery Morrow: Amsterdam University Press.

Leach Scully, J. (2025).Disability and AI: Much more than assistive technologies.Science, 389, DOI:10.1126/science.aea4918

Cagulada, E. (2025). Breathing Speaks of God: Exploring a Moment's Unfolding Through Interpretive Disability Studies” (Canadian Theological Society ... https://cts-stc.ca/2025/05/21/cts-2025-final-schedule/ ). 

Goodley, D., Liddiard, K. and Lawthom, R. (2025). The Depathologising University, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 27(1), p. 120–133. Available at: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1240. How might we think of university bureacracy and administration as well as researcher support as opportunities to enhance  a disability studies agenda in the university?

Lamanna, J. (2024). Arriving Late: The lived experience of women receiving a late autism diagnosis. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Goodley, D. (2024). Disability Studies: An interdisciplinary introduction. Third Edition. This book references Disability Matters an a Case Study for exploring questions of theory, methodology and research. 

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. 

Titchkosky, T. (2024). Interpretive Methods in Disability Studies: Dyslexia Inflected Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004241254394. explores how disability studies can take shape as an interpretive method and how disability-perception can influence this.

Goodley, D. (2024). Depathologising the university. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2024.2316007 This paper develops a conversation with decolonisation to pitch a novel mode of engagement; depathologising the university.  The paper is Gold Open Access and available here

Chataika, T. and Goodley, D. (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies. London: Routledge, published March 2024). Led, curated and driven by Dr Tsitsi Chataika - with editorial input from Disability Matters's Dan Goodley - this exciting new text challenges the Western, European and North American tendencies of critical disability studies through centring and exploring postcolonial theory. More details can be found here

Goodley, D. (2023). Disability and medical posthumanities. Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism. Acknowledges Disability Matters as a space in which colleagues are grappling with the pull and push of humanism and posthumanism.

Zhuang, V., Wong, M.E. and Goodley, D. (Editors). (2023). (Eds).  Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore. Singapore: Ethos Books. A ground-breaking text that, for the first time, brings together disabled scholars, community organisers and artists to centralise questions of disability in the Singaporean context. Here is a link to an online discussion about the book.