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Overview

Tom Shakespeare is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields and focuses primarily on social sciences and medicine, with a strong emphasis on disability studies and public health.

The primary fields of study in their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine

Subfields of their research cover a range of specialized areas:

  • Safety Research
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Education

Tom Shakespeare's main research topics address various aspects of disability and healthcare, including:

  • Disability Rights and Representation
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Elder Abuse and Neglect
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

Their recent papers include the following works:

  • "Triple jeopardy: disabled people and the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021), published in The Lancet
  • "Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021), published in Social Policy and Administration

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Hannah Kuper
  • Lena Morgon Banks
  • Shaffa Hameed
  • Xanthe Hunt
  • Calum Davey

Tom Shakespeare has contributed regularly to several publication venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • The Lancet
  • Disability & Society
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • African Journal of Disability
  • Disability and Health Journal

Best Publications

  • Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

    Tom Shakespeare

  • World report on disability.

    Tom Shakespeare;Alana Officer

  • Disability Rights and Wrongs

    Tom Shakespeare

  • The Social Model of Disability

    Tom Shakespeare

  • Prevalence and risk of violence against children with disabilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

    Lisa Jones;Mark A Bellis;Sara Wood;Karen Hughes

  • Cultural Representation of Disabled People: Dustbins for Disavowal?

    Tom Shakespeare

  • The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires

    Tom Shakespeare;Kath Gillespie-Sells;Dominic Davies

  • DISABILITY, IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE

    Tom Shakespeare

  • Disability/postmodernity : embodying disability theory

    Mairian Corker;Tom Shakespeare

  • Defending the Social Model

    Tom Shakespeare;Nicholas Watson

  • Prevalence and risk of violence against adults with disabilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

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  • Disabled people's self-organisation: a new social movement?

    Tom Shakespeare

  • Choices and rights: eugenics, genetics and disability equality.

    Tom Shakespeare

  • Disabled Sexuality: Toward Rights and Recognition

    Tom Shakespeare

  • The Sexual Politics of Disabled Masculinity

    Tom Shakespeare

  • Disability and the training of health professionals

    Tom Shakespeare;Lisa I Iezzoni;Nora E Groce

  • Mapping the terrain

    Mairiam Corker;Tom Shakespeare

  • Triple jeopardy: disabled people and the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Tom Shakespeare;Florence Ndagire;Queen E Seketi

  • Genetic Politics: From Eugenics to Genome

    Ann Kerr;Tom Shakespeare

  • The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives

    Tom Shakespeare

  • Rules of Engagement: Doing disability research

    Tom Shakespeare

  • Disabling Barriers-Enabling Environments

    Tom Shakespeare

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne M Kavanagh
Anne M Kavanagh University of Melbourne
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Huiyun Xiang
Huiyun Xiang The Ohio State University
Allison Milner
Allison Milner University of Melbourne
Scott Y. H. Kim
Scott Y. H. Kim National Institutes of Health
Nora Groce
Nora Groce University College London
Marc Suhrcke
Marc Suhrcke University of York
Geoff Wong
Geoff Wong University of Oxford
Shanthi Ameratunga
Shanthi Ameratunga University of Auckland
Gwynnyth Llewellyn
Gwynnyth Llewellyn University of Sydney

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