Welcome
On-line bookings and payments are now being taken for the 2008 Disability Studies Conference.
About the disabilitystudies.net
disabilitystudies.net is the webspace of a growing network of academics, researchers and activists throughout the UK and beyond, who share an interest in disability studies.Disability Studies is concerned with the inter-disciplinary development of an increasing body of knowledge and practice, which has arisen from the activities of the disabled people's movement, and which has come to be known as 'the social model of disability'. The social model of disability locates the changing character of disability, which is viewed as an important dimension of inequality, in the social and economic structure and culture of the society in which it is found, rather than in individual limitations.
A biennial disability studies conference is hosted by Lancaster University. The next conference will take place 2-4 September 2008. More information can be found in the conferenc section .
The call for papers and on-line abstract submission form are available here
A monthly e-newsletter co-ordinated by the Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University and Breakthrough UK Ltd was launched in April 2007. More information and the newsletter archive is available at www.breakthrough-uk.com/DRN.shtml