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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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’.
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📢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.…
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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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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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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.…
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History, culture, philosophy, politics. HUMAN BEINGS.
Couldn't be happier that this is coming out on June 5th published by Wildfire. Available for preorder now on Amazon.
For Joey
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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My first ever academic paper has been published! Led by Lizzie Smith, we found that LGBTIQ people with intellectual disability were more vulnerable to prejudice because of their reliance on disability services that were unwilling to meet their needs
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Just 16 MPs attend debate on disability rights, days after hundreds vote for assisted suicide
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide #UNIDPD
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The so-called 'Syrian rebels' are a creation of the U.S. - funded, armed, and supported to destabilise Damascus and disrupt regional stability. This isn't a revolution; it's foreign interference. #Syria
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‘New figures due out later are expected to show an increase in the numbers of people with learning disabilities and autism stuck in hospital or inappropriate placements far from home’
The scandal of human rights abuse in the NHS goes on and on despite endless pledges of action
‘I hope I live long enough to get my autistic grandson out of hospital’ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvz…
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Join the Conversation Disability & Society Special Issue 2026 Call for Papers #CFP Disability — Are things getting better? Closing date for manuscripts submission: 30th July, 2025 Start thinking - details will be online soon. Please share
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Executive Eds are delighted our 2024 Publishers Report shows Disability & Society retains its top performing leading position in the subject area! Almost a million downloads in 2023 amplifying disabled people's voices. Thanks to all who co-create the journal’s huge global success
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