Scholarship

Leads: Christina Lee, Rhea Halsey and Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield) 

We are holding a number of Online Symposia over the six years of the programme, 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 in advance with participants for reasons of access. All papers are collated and presentations are recorded as part our Disability Matters Scholarship collection. 

We help curate Disability Dialogues which seeks to showcase the work of emerging disability studies scholars.

Two multi-day International Conferences 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 the intellectual themes of our symposia, publications and conferences to engage an interdisciplinary audience (in medicine, social sciences, healthcare research).