Category 2014

2014 posts

Thinking about the human; thinking about disability

   Katherine Runswick-Cole (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield) (k.runswick-cole@mmu.ac.uk, d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk) In this post, we think about what it means to be human.   We do so as part of a wider on-going research project Big Society? Disabled people…

FAMILY CARE: BROADENING THE RESEARCH AND POLICY AGENDA

David McConnell, PhD, Professor and Director, Family and Disability Studies Initiative, University of Alberta, www.fdsa.ualberta.ca Researchers have focused a great deal of attention on family adjustment and adaptation to children with disabilities. The traditional and still dominant approach to research in this field starts…