Scholarship

We are holding a number of Online Symposia over the six years of the programme- organised into themes ‘Theory’, ‘Priority’, ‘Method’, ‘Practice’, ‘Representation’ and ‘Culture’ - inviting an international mix of disability activists, established and emerging health and disability scholars from a host disciplines.  All presenters are asked to write a 1500 word paper before the online symposium which we share with participants for reasons of access. All papers are collated and presentations are recorded as part our Disability Matters Scholarship collection. 

Online Conversations from presenters (blogs, provocations, short written papers, films and interviews) will follow up/supplement symposia (housed on our website) joined by additional crowd-sourced researchers’ contributions (with an emphasis on Global Southern voices) and we help curate Disability Dialogues which seeks to showcase the work of emerging disability studies scholars.

Two three-day International Conferences (online/face-face-face hybrid) will be hosted in Year 3 (Singapore, ‘Disability matters in health research’) and Year 6 (Sheffield, ‘Disability futures in health research’) with an emphasis on the participation of early career researchers. A minimum of four journal articles will be written capturing intellectual themes of symposia, conversations and conferences to engage an interdisciplinary audience (in medicine, social sciences, healthcare research). A Special Issue has been provisionally agreed with a Journal (more to follow)