Blog: 2018

The World Report on Disability estimates that approximately one in five people in the world have some form of ‘disability’ – a characteristic which is strongly associated...

In the third blog written by one of our PhD students, Gemma Carr introduces herself and her important research into the experiences of Service (Armed...

This is the second in a series of blogs written by our PhD students in which they introduce themselves and their research. Today the blog has been written...

In this first of a series of blogs that will be written by our PhD students, Rebecca Porter, who has just begun her studies tells...

In this blog Miro Griffiths, who joins us as Teaching Fellow in Disability Studies (School of Sociology and Social Policy), introduces his interests and experience. It is a...

ln this blog MA Disability Studies student Rebecca Porter offers a personal reflection on the ‘Cripping the Muse’ Conference held July 2018 at the School...

Earlier this year our Deputy Director, Angharad Beckett, met with Elivra Psaila, PhD student at the University of Malta, at the inaugural conference run by...

The inaugural Ableism in Academia conference took place 23rd March 2018 at University College London. The event was co-sponsored by the Centre for Disability Studies...

In April Julia Bahner, postdoctoral research fellow in CDS, visited Japan to present her research and meet with disabled people’s organisations and academics. The trip...