Anti-ableist Resources

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

The WAARC team regularly contributes to the Disability Dialogues: a series of short provocative pieces about disability studies and research which is co-edited by iHuman, University of Sheffield and the Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds.

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

The Depathologising University

Failing ethnographies as post-qualitative possibilities: reflections from critical posthumanities and critical disability studies

Co-producing ethics guidelines together with people with learning disabilities

The inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities in health research - challenges, barriers & opportunities: a mixed-method study among stakeholders in England.

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

Webinar: Children and Disability -This webinar – hosted by the Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) on the 25th February 2025 – brought together three experts to discuss theoretical and practical questions concerning children and disability. Panellists: Anastasia Todd (the University of Kentucky), Antonios Ktenidis (the University of Sheffield), and Susan Flynn (Trinity College Dublin). Chair: Hedi Viterbo (Queen Mary University of London).

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


Zine coming soon to the Wellcome Collection (March 2025) - Imagining the anti-ableist university’ is a collection of frustrations, tensions, and hopes for the future of an anti-ableist university created by a collection of critical disability studies scholars and university professional services staff in the UK. Through sharing some of our dialogues surrounding the concept of the anti-ableist university over the past 6 months, we encourage this zine to be read critically and engaged, critiqued, and used as a starting point for others to share their frustrations with and hopes for the anti-ableist university, whatever that may mean to you.
 

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:

Inclusive Recruitment and MyEmployment Plan developed by Speakup Self-advocacy. Employment is for Everyone site. Employers will find information on video CVs examples of inclusive recruitment and the My Employment Plan, which employers could adopt for all colleagues who are in employment within the university who are autistic this would ensure reasonable adjustments were made in the workplace. 

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

NADSN’s post-lockdown position paper

NADSN members have also been involved in this fabulous film and project Marginalisation in Science: Disabilty and Inclusion