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

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

Depathologising the 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

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

NADSN’s post-lockdown position paper