Dr Kirsty Liddiard
BA Hons, MA, PhD
School of Education
Senior Research Fellow
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead
+44 114 222 8111
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- Profile
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I have taught Sociology, Critical Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies, Education Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in a number of universities in the UK and Canada. These include the University of ߲ݴý; the University of Warwick (UK); the University of Toronto (Canada); Ryerson University (Canada); and Trent University (Canada).
- Research interests
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My research spans disability, gender, sexuality and intimacy, and more recently, childhood and youth, with a particular interest in how disablism and ableism both inform and shape these experiences in the everyday lives of disabled people.
I centre disability activism, arts and culture in my work and make use of arts-informed methodologies because of the ways in which they push the boundaries of traditional social scientific thinking and enable multiple ways of thinking and knowing.
I am currently exploring these interests in my project , which seeks to forge new understandings of the lives, hopes, desires and contributions of children and young people with ‘life-limiting’ or ‘life-threatening’ impairments (hereby LL/LTIs).
Research Projects
- Life, Death, Disability and the Human: Living Life to the Fullest. ESRC. Kirsty Liddiard, Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole. (2017-2020).
- Arts, Architecture, Activism and Access: Taking Around the Toilet to New Spaces. AHRC. Kirsty Liddiard, Jen Slater (߲ݴý Hallam), Jill Smith (߲ݴý Hallam), Lisa Procter (Manchester Metropolitan University). (2017-2018).
- Touretteshero: Disability Arts, Engagement and Possibility. Wellcome Trust. Jess Thom, Matthew Pountney, Kirsty Liddiard (2017-2020)
- Storying Our Chemical Lives: A Design Fiction Workshop Social Science and Humanities Research of Canada (SSHRC) Esther Ignagni (Ryerson University), Eliza Chandler (Ryerson University), Kirsty Liddiard
- Learning disabled people’s intimate lives: Accounting for Austerity. Wellcome Trust. Kirsty Liddiard. (2016).
- Making Space for Developmental Disability and Intimate Citizenship. Social Science and Humanities Research of Canada (SSHRC) Esther Ignagni (Ryerson University), Ann Fudge-Schormans (McMaster University). (2015).
- Publications
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Books
- Living life to the fullest: Disability, youth and voice.
- The Intimate Lives of Disabled People. Routledge.
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Edited books
- Being Human During Covid-19. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies. Springer.
Journal articles
- . International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, 1(1), 27-49.
- . Journal of Disability Studies in Education, 1(1-2), 125-144.
- . Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 515-549.
- . Global Studies of Childhood, 9(3), 235-248.
- . Sociology of Health & Illness.
- . Disability & Society.
- . Children & Society.
- . Gender and Education, 30(5), 663-682.
- . Sexualities, 21(3), 319-333.
- . Disability & Society, 33(2), 197-217.
- . Hypatia, 32(2), 213-229.
- . Community Dental Health, 33(2), 152-155.
- . Disability and Society, 31(1), 131-135.
- . Disability & Society, 30(9), 1445-1448.
- . Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
- . Disability & Society, 30(4), 513-527.
- Liking for Like’s Sake – The Commodification of Disability on Facebook. Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 20(3), 94-101.
- . Sexualities, 17(7), 837-855.
- . Disability & Society, 29(1), 115-128.
- . Sociological Research Online, 18(3), 105-117.
- “No-one’s contribution is more valid than another’s”: Committing to inclusive democratic methodologies. Research in Education.
- . Sociology of Health and Illness.
- . Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 8(4), 293-320.
- . Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(2), 83-93.
Chapters
- Inviting disability: disabled children and studies of childhood In Balagopalan S, Wall J & Wells K (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies (pp. 85-95). Bloomsbury
- , Research Handbook on Disability Policy (pp. 636-652). Edward Elgar Publishing
- (pp. 85-95). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- , Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (pp. 1-30). Springer International Publishing
- , Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. i-xii).
- , Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. 115-124).
- , Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. 125-145).
- , Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. 79-98).
- , Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. 11-23). Emerald Publishing Limited
- (pp. 60-66). Bristol University Press
- “I’ve Got People’s Spit All over Me!” Reflections on the Future of Life-Saving Stem Cell Donor Recruitment In Martin P, Liddiard K, Pearce W & de Saille S (Ed.), Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 100-107). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- Where Will an Emerging Post-COVID-19 Future Position the Human? In Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (Ed.), Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 117-123). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 28-35). Bristol University Press
- (pp. 1-10). Bristol University Press
- (pp. 147-155). Bristol University Press
- , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 60-66). Policy Press
- , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 60-66). Bristol University Press
- , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 1-10). Policy Press
- , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 1-10). Bristol University Press
- , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 147-155). Policy Press
- , Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 147-155). Bristol University Press
- Co-production, participatory and emancipatory disability research, Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (pp. 25-42).
- Humans, COVID-19 and Platform Societies In Martin P, de Saille S, Liddiard K & Pearce W (Ed.), Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 36-41). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- , Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism (pp. 793-822). Springer International Publishing
- Marginalized Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 51-51).
- Knowing Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 11-11).
- Human Futures, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 115-115).
- Biosocial Humans, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 83-83).
- BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 Introduction, BEING HUMAN DURING COVID-19 (pp. 1-9).
- , The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality (pp. 39-52). Routledge
- , The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South (pp. 211-222). Springer International Publishing
- Posthuman Disability and Dishuman Studies In Braidotti R & Hlavajova M (Ed.), Posthuman Glossary (pp. 342-345). Bloomsbury Publishing
- , The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies (pp. 389-408). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology (pp. 491-505). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Routledge
- Routledge
Website content
- Participatory research poses challenges to postgraduate researchers – here’s how we’re tackling the issue.
- On building trust: Co-producing what it means to be trustworthy.
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- . In International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition) Elsevier.
- . In The Wiley-Blackwell Encylopedia of Social Theory. West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons.
Preprints
- , Center for Open Science.
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- Living life to the fullest: Disability, youth and voice.
- Research group
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I undertake a range of supervisory roles within the School and am currently supervising four PhD students. I welcome PhD students across a number of social science disciplines that wish to undertake research in the areas of disability, education, gender, sexuality and childhood and youth.
- Teaching activities
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Last year, I was the convenor of Globalising Education (EDU309), a third-year undergraduate module within the School of Education’s BA Education, Culture and Childhood here at the University of ߲ݴý. Due to my research schedule, this year I am only guest lecturing across a number of modules in the School of Education.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Editor at large for the leading journal Disability and Society and regular peer reviewer for Gender and Education; Community Development Journal; Sexualities; Emotion, Space and Society; and Girlhood, as well as for the publishers Palgrave, Routledge, and Jessica Kingsley.
- Member of the Faculty of Social Sciences Equality and Diversity Committee; the Sexuality Alliance (Open University); Co-Founder of the Faculty of Social Sciences Early Career Researcher Forum; and founding member of the Centre for Critical Psychology and Education and iHuman.