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Dr Rebecca Fish

@BeckstaylorFish

Researcher - intersections of disability/gender, experiences of health/social care/CJ services, self-harm, violence. Managing editor @JDisSoc. Opinions my own.

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Joined July 2012
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My recent open access article exploring perspectives on Buvidal long-acting buprenorphine: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Our Senior Policy Fellow @MolyneuxDr has co-authored this report on disabled entrepreneurs, alongside Paula Holland and Jacqueline Winstanley. ‘Navigating serial inequities: the unmet support needs of disabled entrepreneurs’. @JDisSoc tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Navigating serial inequities: the unmet support needs of disabled entrepreneurs

Navigating serial inequities: the unmet support needs of disabled entrepreneurs

Self-employment provides an important source of income for disabled people, who face multiple barriers in the labour market. Underpinned by Sen’s capability approach, we explore, through interviews...

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Poland Lai@pleelai17 Mar 2025
📢Drawing from legal developments in ON (CA), this paper argues that providing broad civil liability protection to LTC homes (nursing homes) & govts normalizes and trivializes wrongs committed by institutions and gov'ts during the pandemic. @JDisSoc Thx tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Seeking redress for harm in institutional care during the COVID-19 pandemic: immunity from civil...

Seeking redress for harm in institutional care during the COVID-19 pandemic: immunity from civil...

The harms in institutions such as psychiatric facilities and long-term care (LTC) homes (aged care or nursing homes) uncovered during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated momentum for deinstitutionali...

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Zizhen Wang@zizhenwang19922 Nov 2025
My new published paper in Disability & Society @JDisSoc examines the rise of deaf-staffed bubble tea shops in urban China. It argues while these ventures are framed as inclusive, they commodify disability and reproduce benevolent ableism under a market logic of sentimentality.
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Last call to sign up to our online event about class-based disablism in HE: eventbrite.co.uk/e/class-bas…
Class-based disablism in Higher Education - disabled academics' experiences

Class-based disablism in Higher Education - disabled academics' experiences

Join us for a discussion on the challenges faced by disabled academics in higher education, including those in precarious positions

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A special moment for humanity as the world gets to watch billionaires play astronauts with the tax money they avoided paying
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I just have to shout into the void that patient safety incident investigations are so additionally traumatic for families who've already been through the worst. I'm so drained with being promised reports that don't arrive-and communication about their absence I have to instigate.
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Consider submitting your work to our 2026 Special Issue - Are things getting better?
Disability&Society (@JDisSoc) profile pictureDisability&Society@JDisSoc2 Apr 2025
Disability & Society Special Issue 2026 #CFP — ‘Disability — Are things getting better?’ Closing date 30th July 2025! Please share. Push the boundaries on the most pressing issues of our time #Disability #AI #AssistedLiving #PIP #Global #Inclusion Link think.taylorandfrancis.com/s……
Red and white cover of leading journal Disability & Society

ALT Red and white cover of leading journal Disability & Society

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New article: Speaking across the autism worldview divide: a dialogue between critical autism studies and behaviour analytic scholars Elsa Suckle, Nick Chown, Jonathan Tarbox & Sneha Kohli Mathur #OA #Autism #ABA tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Speaking across the autism worldview divide: a dialogue between critical autism studies and...

Speaking across the autism worldview divide: a dialogue between critical autism studies and...

Applied behaviour analysis and critical autism studies are generally assumed to find no common ground on the question of autism support strategies. With the core conviction that no autism support o...

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I am reading - free to access article: Current debates regarding deinstitutionalisation for disabled people in South Korea: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Current debates regarding deinstitutionalisation for disabled people in South Korea

Current debates regarding deinstitutionalisation for disabled people in South Korea

The process of deinstitutionalisation gained momentum in the late 20th century, driven by disability rights movements and increased awareness of the harms of institutionalisation. This paper provid...

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22 years ago today, Israel crushed American activist Rachel Corrie to death under a bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Gaza. Don’t stop talking about Palestine 🇵🇸
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The Resonance
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She sacrificed her career for humanity. hats off to her!
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Stephen Unwin@RoseUnwin6 Mar 2025
It’s World Book Day. This is out in June. I’m quite proud of it.
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I am reading open access article: Moving forward: a call for Critical ADHD Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Moving forward: a call for Critical ADHD Studies

Moving forward: a call for Critical ADHD Studies

Highly effective early autistic activism gave considerable impetus to changes in the way autism research is conceived and carried out, notably through Critical Autism Studies (CAS). Little, though,...

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I am reading this open access article: In substance use treatment, are treatment goals harming or helping? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
In substance use treatment, are treatment goals harming or helping?

In substance use treatment, are treatment goals harming or helping?

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven the adoption of harm reduction strategies in substance use disorder treatment, shifting focus from abstinence to addressing substance-related harm in a person-cente...

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I am reading: Participatory action research in partnership with young people with disability: a case from the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Participatory action research in partnership with young people with disability: a case from the...

Participatory action research in partnership with young people with disability: a case from the...

This article focuses on the process of the participatory action research (PAR) approach of working with a group of Palestinian young people with disabilities to explore their experiences in the Pal...

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