Publications

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

We also share on this page some of the publications of our team members:

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?

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. 

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 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.