1st Edition
Social Research and Disability Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers
Introduction
Ciaran Burke and Bronagh Byrne
Part 1: Navigating the Academy
1. Owning My Room: Building a Safe, Accessible and Productive Space for Student Researchers with Complex Communication Disabilities
Annmaree Watharow
2. On the Outside Looking In?: Reflections on Being a Disabled Social and Feminist Geographer
Vera Chouinard
3. A Closer Look at ‘Wheelchair’ Ethnography: Ableism and the Insights Disabled Scholars Generate with - not despite - Their Impairments and Disabilities
Karen Mogendorff
4. Dilemmas of Identity Disclosure and Provision of Disability Support
Stuart Read, Caroline Miles and Wendy Merchant
Part 2: Conducting Research "In the Field"
5. The Continuing Adventures of a Four-Legged Female Academic
Nancy E. Hansen
6. 10 Affects of Hidden, Mental Dis/Abilities and the Act of Disclosure
Anita Goldschmied
7. Lived Experience Researchers: The Power of Recovery from Mental Health Challenges
Helena Roennfeldt and Louise Byrne
Part 3: Shifting Methodologies
8. Unsettling Ableism in Research Traditions: Toward Establishing Blind Methodologies
Cynthia Bruce
9. Deaf Research Methodologies? Confronting Epistemological Silences and Challenges in Qualitative Research
Bronagh Byrne and Michael Schwartz
10. "Repeat After Me": Gestalt, Fluency and Biographical Research
Ciaran Burke
Editorial Reflections
Bronagh Byrne and Ciaran Burke
Biography
Ciaran Burke is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of the West of England. His research focuses on access to higher education and graduate employment pathways. Adopting a Bourdieusian theoretical lens, he has published extensively on issues including graduate employment, social justice and social theory.
Bronagh Byrne is Co-Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights and and Co-Founder of the Disability Research Network at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her research focuses on the rights of disabled children and young people. She has published widely on inclusive education and the implementation of international disability rights law and children’s rights law.
