The Diverse Work of Disability Studies: New Doctoral Research Panel

Wednesday, 5 December 2018 , 2pm
Conference Room 1 & 2

The work endorsed by the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies is often diverse. The core membership hails from numerous fields and disciplines on which it draws to explore and expand understandings of disability. 

This diversity is demonstrable in the newest doctoral work of the core members that will be brought together in an open research panel that engages with Geography, Media Studies and Education, among many other subjects. 

The panel will focus on Dr Pritchard's 'The Social and Spatial Experiences of Dwarfs in Public Spaces', Dr Houston's 'The Representation of Disabled Women in Anglo-American Advertising: Examining how cultural disability tropes impact on the subjective wellbeing of disabled women', and Dr Waite's 'Deterritorialising Moments: An Exploration of the Educational Experiences of Children said to have profound and multiple learning disabilities'. 

Diverse in focuse and methodology, the three projects will nonetheless unify in their appreciation of experiential knowledge and sustained engagement with disability studies. 

The panel will be chaired by Head of Department of Disability and Education, Dr Claire Penketh, with and introduction from Director of the CCDS Professor David Bolt. 

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