Events

Conversation Series

The Centre runs a regular and lively Conversation Series featuring guest speakers from disabled people's organisations, NGOs and academia. All of these events are open to members of the disability community and allies as well as to university staff and students.

We welcome suggestions for future guest speakers from academia, disability activism and the wider policy community. Events open to the disability community and allies are advertised using the Disability Research Discussion list.

Conferences

Disability Studies Conference

In September 2024 we launched a new biennial Disability Studies Conference that creates a space where researchers, practitioners, policy makers and activists from around the world come together to share and debate research, ideas and developments in disability studies. The next conference is planned for April 2026. Details will be available on the conference webpage.

CDS Postgraduate Conferences

Our Post Graduate Researchers (PGR) ran conferences in:

• 2019 Disability Studies: past, present and future
• 2023 Academia, activism and applicability 
• 2024 Anarchy and Activism

As part of the 2024 Leeds Disability Studies Conference our PGRs hosted a Post-Graduate Symposium.

In 2018 postgraduate students were involved in a Disability Studies stream at the School of Sociology and Social Policy's Annual Postgraduate Conference.

(Left to right) Rebecca Porter, Hannah McGurk, Gayatri Gulvady and Bethan Gifford. Presenters at Annual Postgraduate Conference 2018.