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Dan Goodley is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, and Education. They also engage with areas in General Health Professions and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Disability Rights and Representation
  • Foucault, Power, and Ethics
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies

Recent publications by Dan Goodley demonstrate engagement with disability studies, health research, and social justice. Notable papers include:

  • "The inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities in health research - challenges, barriers and opportunities: a mixed-method study among stakeholders in England" (2023), published in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
  • "Key Concerns for Critical Disability Studies" (2021), published in the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice
  • "Affect, dis/ability and the pandemic" (2022), published in Sociology of Health & Illness
  • "The Desire for New Humanisms" (2020), published in the Journal of Disability Studies in Education
  • "Rebooting Inclusive Education? New Technologies and Disabled People" (2020), published in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

Dan Goodley frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Journal of Disability Studies in Education
  • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
  • International Journal of Disability and Social Justice
  • Sociology of Health & Illness
  • British Journal of Learning Disabilities

Their collaborations include work with coauthors:

  • Katherine Runswick-Cole
  • Kirsty Liddiard
  • Rebecca Lawthom
  • Katy Evans
  • Ruth Spurr

Best Publications

  • Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    Dan Goodley

  • Dis/ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism

    Dan Goodley

  • Dis/entangling critical disability studies

    Dan Goodley

  • 'Learning Difficulties', the Social Model of Disability and Impairment: Challenging epistemologies

    Dan A. Goodley

  • Researching Life Stories: Method, Theory and Analyses in a Biographical Age

    Dan A. Goodley;Rebecca Lawthom;Peter Clough;Michelle Moore

  • Self Advocacy in the Lives of People with Learning Difficulties: The Politics of Resilience

    Dan Goodley

  • Provocations for Critical Disability Studies

    Dan Goodley;Rebecca Lawthom;Kirsty Liddiard;Katherine Runswick-Cole

  • Tales of Hidden Lives: A critical examination of life history research with people who have learning difficulties

    Danny Goodley

  • Towards Socially Just Pedagogies: Deleuzoguattarian Critical Disability Studies.

    Dan A. Goodley

  • Posthuman disability studies

    Dan Goodley;Rebecca Lawthom;Katherine Runswick Cole

  • The linear medical model of disability: mothers of disabled babies resist with counter-narratives.

    Pamela Fisher;Dan Goodley

  • Becoming dishuman: thinking about the human through dis/ability

    Daniel Goodley;Katherine Runswick-Cole

  • Making connections: the relevance of the social model of disability for people with learning difficulties

    Anne Louise Chappell;Dan Goodley;Rebecca Lawthom

  • Doing Disability Research: Activist lives and the academy

    Dan Goodley;Michele Moore

  • Emancipating play: dis/abled children, development and deconstruction

    Dan A. Goodley;Katherine Runswick-Cole

  • Empowerment, self-advocacy and resilience

    Dan A. Goodley

  • The violence of disablism

    Dan Goodley;Katherine Runswick-Cole

  • Feeling disability: theories of affect and critical disability studies

    Dan Goodley;Kirsty Liddiard;Katherine Runswick-Cole

  • Dis/ability and austerity: beyond work and slow death

    Dan Goodley;Rebecca Lawthom;Katherine Runswick-Cole

  • Storying Disability and Impairment: Retrospective Accounts of Disabled Family Life

    Dan A. Goodley;Claire Tregaskis

  • Disability rights and wrongs revisited

    Dan Goodley

  • Social Model of Disability

    Dan Goodley

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Rapley
Mark Rapley University of East London
Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Leslie Swartz
Leslie Swartz Stellenbosch University
Erica Burman
Erica Burman University of Manchester

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