Dr Kirsty Liddiard

BA Hons, MA, PhD

School of Education

Senior Research Fellow

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

k.liddiard@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 8111

Edgar Allen House

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Dr Kirsty Liddiard
School of Education
Edgar Allen House
241 Glossop Rd
Sheffield
S10 2GW

Profile: I have taught Sociology, Critical Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies, Education Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in a number of universities in the UK and Canada. These include the University of Sheffield; the University of Warwick (UK); the University of Toronto (Canada); Ryerson University (Canada); and Trent University (Canada).

Research interests

My research spans disability, gender, sexuality and intimacy, and more recently, childhood and youth, with a particular interest in how disablism and ableism both inform and shape these experiences in the everyday lives of disabled people.

I centre disability activism, arts and culture in my work and make use of arts-informed methodologies because of the ways in which they push the boundaries of traditional social scientific thinking and enable multiple ways of thinking and knowing.

I am currently exploring these interests in my project Living Life to the Fullest, which seeks to forge new understandings of the lives, hopes, desires and contributions of children and young people with ‘life-limiting’ or ‘life-threatening’ impairments (hereby LL/LTIs).

Research Projects

Life, Death, Disability and the Human: Living Life to the Fullest. ESRC. Kirsty Liddiard, Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole. (2017-2020).
Arts, Architecture, Activism and Access: Taking Around the Toilet to New Spaces. AHRC. Kirsty Liddiard, Jen Slater (Sheffield Hallam), Jill Smith (Sheffield Hallam), Lisa Procter (Manchester Metropolitan University). (2017-2018).
Touretteshero: Disability Arts, Engagement and Possibility. Wellcome Trust. Jess Thom, Matthew Pountney, Kirsty Liddiard (2017-2020)
Storying Our Chemical Lives: A Design Fiction Workshop Social Science and Humanities Research of Canada (SSHRC) Esther Ignagni (Ryerson University), Eliza Chandler (Ryerson University), Kirsty Liddiard
Learning disabled people’s intimate lives: Accounting for Austerity. Wellcome Trust. Kirsty Liddiard. (2016).
Making Space for Developmental Disability and Intimate Citizenship. Social Science and Humanities Research of Canada (SSHRC) Esther Ignagni (Ryerson University), Ann Fudge-Schormans (McMaster University). (2015).

Publications

Books

Liddiard K (2017) The Intimate Lives of Disabled People. Routledge.
Liddiard K, Curran T & Runswick-Cole K (2017) Concluding thoughts and future directions.

Edited books

Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (Eds.) (2022) Being Human During Covid-19. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Runswick-Cole K, Curran T & Liddiard K (Eds.) (2017) The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies. Springer.

Journal articles

Goodley D, Cameron D, Liddiard K, Parry R, Runswick-Cole K, Whitburn B & Wong ME (2020) Rebooting Inclusive Education? New Technologies and Disabled People. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 515-549.
Goodley D, Lawthom R, Liddiard K & Runswick-Cole-Cole K (2020) The desire for new humanisms. Journal of Disability Studies in Education. View this article in WRRO
Daly A, Heah R & Liddiard K (2019) Vulnerable subjects and autonomous actors : the right to sexuality education for disabled under-18s. Global Studies of Childhood, 9(3), 235-248. View this article in WRRO
Liddiard K, Whitney S, Evans K, Watts L, Vogelmann E, Spurr R, Aimes C, Runswick-Cole K & Goodley D (2019) Working the edges of Posthuman disability studies : theorising with young disabled people with life-limiting impairments. Sociology of Health & Illness. View this article in WRRO
Goodley D, Liddiard K & Runswick-Cole K (2019) Provocations for Critical Disability Studies. Disability & Society. View this article in WRRO
Liddiard K, Runswick‐Cole K, Goodley D, Whitney S, Vogelmann E & Watts L (2018) “I was Excited by the Idea of a Project that Focuses on those Unasked Questions” Co‐Producing Disability Research with Disabled Young People. Children & Society. View this article in WRRO
Rice C, Chandler E, Liddiard K, Rinaldi J & Harrison E (2018) Pedagogical possibilities for unruly bodies. Gender and Education, 30(5), 663-682. View this article in WRRO
Liddiard K & Slater J (2018) ‘Like, pissing yourself is not a particularly attractive quality, let’s be honest’: Learning to contain through youth, adulthood, disability and sexuality. Sexualities, 21(3), 319-333. View this article in WRRO
Goodley D (2018) Feeling disability: Theories of Affect and Critical Disability Studies. Disability & Society, 33(2), 197-217. View this article in WRRO
Rice C, Chandler E, Rinaldi R, Changfoot N, Liddiard K, Mykitiuk R & Mündel I (2017) Imagining Disability Futurities. Hypatia, 32(2), 213-229. View this article in WRRO
Goodley D, Runswick-Cole K & Liddiard K (2016) The DisHuman child. Discourse, 37(5), 770-784. View this article in WRRO
Liddiard K & Goodley D (2016) The mouth and dis/ability. Community Dental Health, 33(2), 152-155. View this article in WRRO
Igagni E, Fudge Schormans A, Liddiard K & Runswick-Cole K (2016) ‘Some people are not allowed to love’: intimate citizenship in the lives of people labelled with intellectual disabilities. Disability and Society, 31(1), 131-135. View this article in WRRO
Liddiard K (2015) Disability, human rights and the limits of humanitarianism. Disability & Society, 30(9), 1445-1448. View this article in WRRO
Rice C, Chandler E, Harrison E, Liddiard K & Ferrari M (2015) Project Re•Vision: disability at the edges of representation. Disability & Society, 30(4), 513-527. View this article in WRRO
Liddiard K (2014) Liking for Like’s Sake – The Commodification of Disability on Facebook. Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 20(3), 94-101.
Liddiard K (2014) ‘I never felt like she was just doing it for the money’: Disabled men’s intimate (gendered) realities of purchasing sexual pleasure and intimacy. Sexualities, 17(7), 837-855. View this article in WRRO
Liddiard K (2014) The work of disabled identities in intimate relationships. Disability & Society, 29(1), 115-128. View this article in WRRO
Liddiard K (2013) Reflections on the Process of Researching Disabled People's Sexual Lives. Sociological Research Online, 18(3), 105-117.
Goodley D, Lawthom R, Liddiard K & Runswick-Cole K () Affect, dis/ability and the pandemic. Sociology of Health and Illness.
Ignagni E, Chandler E, Collins K, Darby A & Liddiard K () Designing Access Together: Surviving the Demand for Resilience. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 8(4), 293-320.
Liddiard K, goodley D & Runswick-Cole K () The Dis/Human Child: Thinking about the Child through Disability. Discourse. View this article in WRRO
Goodley D, Lawthom R, Liddiard K & Runswick-Cole K () Key Concerns for Critical Disability Studies in Covid-19 Times. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.

Chapters

Goodley D, Liddiard K, Runswick-Cole K, Watts L, Whitney S, Dobbin H & Moss C (2022) Posthumanist Disability Studies, Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (pp. 1-30). Springer International Publishing
Liddiard K, Whitney-Mitchell S, Evans K, Watts L, Spurr R, Vogelmann E, Runswick-Cole K & Goodley D (2022) Prelims, Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. i-xii).
Liddiard K, Whitney-Mitchell S, Evans K, Watts L, Spurr R, Vogelmann E, Runswick-Cole K & Goodley D (2022) Making Meaningful Impact in and with Schools, Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. 115-124).
Evans K, Whitney-Mitchell S & Liddiard K (2022) Desiring Life and Living with Death, Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. 125-145).
Evans K, Whitney-Mitchell S & Liddiard K (2022) Rethinking Sexuality, Our Intimate Selves and Our Relationships with Others, Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. 79-98).
Liddiard K, Runswick-Cole K, Goodley D, Spurr R, Whitney S, Vogelmann E, MBE LW & Evans K (2022) “Why Would I Go to Hospital if It’s Not Going to Try and Save Me?”: Disabled Young People’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 60-66). Bristol University Press
Williams R (2022) “I’ve Got People’s Spit All over Me!” Reflections on the Future of Life-Saving Stem Cell Donor Recruitment In Martin P, Liddiard K, Pearce W & de Saille S (Ed.), Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 100-107). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Arthur KNA, Amanatidou E, de Saille S, Birabi T & Pandey P (2022) Where Will an Emerging Post-COVID-19 Future Position the Human? In Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (Ed.), Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 117-123). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
(2022) The Role of Everyday Visuals in ‘Knowing Humans’ During COVID-19, Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 28-35). Bristol University Press
Martin P, Saille SD, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Introduction (pp. 1-10). Bristol University Press
Martin P, Saille SD, Liddiard K & Pearce W (2022) Conclusion: Thinking about ‘the Human’ during COVID-19 Times (pp. 147-155). Bristol University Press
Liddiard K, Runswick-Cole K, Goodley D, Spurr R, Whitney S, Vogelmann E, Watts MBE L & Evans K (2022) “Why Would I Go to Hospital if It’s Not Going to Try and Save Me?”: Disabled Young People’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis, Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 60-66). Policy Press
Liddiard K, Runswick-Cole K, Goodley D, Spurr R, Whitney S, Vogelmann E, Watts L & Evans K (2022) “Why Would I Go to Hospital if It’s Not Going to Try and Save Me?”: Disabled Young People’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis, Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 60-66). Bristol University Press
Vicari S & Yang Z (2022) Humans, COVID-19 and Platform Societies In Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (Ed.), Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 36-41). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Goodley D, Liddiard K, Runswick-Cole K, Watts L, Whitney S, Dobbin H & Moss C (2022) Posthumanist Disability Studies, Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (pp. 793-822). Springer International Publishing
Goodley D, Lawthom R, Liddiard K & Runswick-Cole K (2019) Towards a DisHuman Civil Society, The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South (pp. 211-222). Springer International Publishing
Jones L & Liddiard K (2018) A Diversity of Childhoods: Considering the Looked After Childhood, The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies (pp. 389-408). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Goodley D, Lawthom R, Liddiard K & Cole KR (2017) Critical Disability Studies, The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology (pp. 491-505). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Liddiard K (2015) The Work of Disabled Identities in Intimate Relationships, Gender Through the Prism of Difference Oxford University Press, USA View this article in WRRO
() Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies Routledge
() Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday Routledge

Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries

Runswick-Cole K, Goodley D & Liddiard K (2023) Disability studies in a posthuman age. In International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition) Elsevier.
Liddiard K & Goodley D (2017) Disability and Impairment. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encylopedia of Social Theory. West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons. View this article in WRRO

Preprints

Daly A, Heah R & Liddiard K () Vulnerable Subjects and Autonomous Actors: The Right to Sexuality Education for Disabled Under-18s.

Research group: I undertake a range of supervisory roles within the School and am currently supervising four PhD students. I welcome PhD students across a number of social science disciplines that wish to undertake research in the areas of disability, education, gender, sexuality and childhood and youth.

Teaching activities: Last year, I was the convenor of Globalising Education (EDU309), a third-year undergraduate module within the School of Education’s BA Education, Culture and Childhood here at the University of Sheffield. Due to my research schedule, this year I am only guest lecturing across a number of modules in the School of Education.

Professional activities and memberships

Editor at large for the leading journal Disability and Society and regular peer reviewer for Gender and Education; Community Development Journal; Sexualities; Emotion, Space and Society; and Girlhood, as well as for the publishers Palgrave, Routledge, and Jessica Kingsley.
Member of the Faculty of Social Sciences Equality and Diversity Committee; the Sexuality Alliance (Open University); Co-Founder of the Faculty of Social Sciences Early Career Researcher Forum; and founding member of the Centre for Critical Psychology and Education and iHuman.