Social Research and Disability: Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers
About this ebook
This innovative and original text will, for the first time, bring together research-active academics, who identify as being disabled, to consider experiences of being disabled within a largely ableist academy, as well as strategies employed and issues faced when conducting empirical research. The driving force of this volume is to provide the blueprints for bringing how we conduct social research to the same standards and vision as how the social world is understood: multi-faceted and intersectional. To this end, this edited collection advocates for a sociological future that values the presence of disabled researchers and normalises research methods that are inclusive and accessible.
The interdisciplinary focus of Social Research and Disability offers a uniquely broad primary market. This volume will be of interest not only to the student market, but also to established academics within the social sciences.
About the author
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.
