Anti-ableist Resources
Resources from WAARC and external organisations
During the lifetime of WAARC we will be releasing details of writing and outputs from our research in a variety of forms.
Open Access publications:
Publications through which the WAARC team critically engage with emerging findings and deliberations with a specific focus on our aims and deliverables. These include working papers:
Missive from the Accommodations Loop
Working paper: Knowing times - generating community in a new wave of disability
And we are accessing a series of Journal articles - Open Access peer reviewed papers - written by the WAARC team that either emerge directly from our work or reflect team members' scholarship that are impacting on our discussions within the team. These papers consider the power of podcasting to promote dialogue and theorisation; theoretical ideas relating to understanding the anti-ableist university; the challenges of particular research methods when these methods are built upon ableist assumptions; the urgent need to engage disabled people and their representative organisations at all stages of research:
Massively Disabled 3: Back to the Future with Polio
The Autistic Postgraduate Woman: Navigating the Neurotypical University
Anti-Frontiers in Zineing: Zines as Process & the Politics of Refusal
Depathologising the University
Co-producing ethics guidelines together with people with learning disabilities
Being human as praxis: for people with learning disabilities.
Moreover, we are fortunate to draw upon scholarship symposia, films and their recordings which bring together the work of emerging and established disability studies and disabled researchers as well as the writing of the Disability Matters team:
Disability Matters Scholarship Collection
Disability Matters team publications
Public engagement outputs:
Due to the wider work of our WAARC team we are fortunate to draw upon a plethora of resources that we might frame as public engagement:
Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril's Massively Disabled: A long COVID research podcast series
And you can find the transcripts of each episode here: https://www.massivelydisabled.com/
Outputs of Disabled People's Organisations
WAARC partners - Disabled People's Organisations - have produced a number of outputs relating to research, innovation and evaluation. These include:
Human activism with Speakup Self-advocacy - human activism as made by self-advocates with learning disabilities
ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research #8 Dr Liz Croot and guests - Doing Research with People with Learning Disabilities - thinking differently about doing research through co-production
Humanising Healthcare: An exhibition - showcases the humanising healthcare practices created by researchers with learning disabilities including colleagues from WAARC partners Speakup Self-advocacy and Sheffield Voices
Human Rights - a film - by Sheffield Voices
Impact of advocacy - by Speakup Self-advocacy - many reflections on the power of self-advocacy
NADSN Conference held pre-covid in Manchester in 2019 - a link to presentations
iHuman
How we understand being ‘human’ differs between disciplines and has changed radically over time. We are living in an age marked by rapid growth in knowledge about the human body and brain, and new technologies with the potential to change them.