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Disability research by disabled and non-disabled people: towards a rational methodology of research production
- Authors:
- TREGASKIS Claire, GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(5), December 2005, pp.363-374.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores some of the problems and opportunities that may derive from the development of working relationships between disabled and non-disabled researchers. First a number of key barriers that face disabled researchers from the outset of research are sketched out. In seeking to identify good research practice that can challenge such barriers, it is suggested that enabling modes of research production may often be uncovered through a careful examination of the working relationships between members of research teams. This approach is illustrated through a discussion of a range of relational issues that have impacted upon the authors’ own research partnership: (i) Relating in research: Tackling fears and issues around self-disclosure; (ii) Psychoanalytic sensitivity: Privileging ontological experience and reflexivity; (iii) Towards a feminist ethics of care: Challenging methodological individualism; and (iv) Interdependence in research: towards enriched analysis. In terms of advancing an agenda for inclusive disability research, it is believed that making explicit the complexity of disabled/non-disabled research relationships like this is one practical way in which general assumptions of a binary disabled/non-disabled split may be challenged, whilst simultaneously recognizing that equitable working partnerships can only derive from the equal valuing of difference.
Applying the social model in practice: some lessons from countryside recreation
- Author:
- TREGASKIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(6), October 2004, pp.601-611.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper draws on the researcher's experiences as a countryside access advisor in exploring some of the ways that social model ideas can influence the development of organizational policy and practice in mainstream settings. It argues that, in seeking to influence the development of more inclusive policies and practices, disability studies needs to look for new ways of engaging with diverse audiences of practitioners who are used to operating within an individual model of disability, and who may therefore see no immediate organizational advantages to adopting social model principles in their work. This evolutionary process demands in particular that we work constantly towards finding new, more accessible, ways of explaining social model ideas to mainstream audiences. Thus, in a social climate that continues to tolerate disabled people's oppression, disability studies has a key role to play in demonstrating to theorists, policy-makers and practitioners why and how social model ideas can support the move towards inclusion.
Interviewing non-disabled people about their disability-related attitudes: seeking methodologies
- Author:
- TREGASKIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.343-353.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Within the field of disability studies there has been a concentration upon the representation of disabled people's experiences within a social context. However, research into non-disabled people's perspectives on disability and impairment has traditionally been based upon a psychologically-driven individualist model of disability which sees disabled people uncritically as 'the problem'. In this apparent epistemological divide, little work has been done on the exploration of non-disabled people's perspectives from a social model angle. This paper outlines a current study of the formation of such perspectives, and specifically explores the methodological conditioners of such an enquiry.
Social model theory: the story so far
- Author:
- TREGASKIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.457-470.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Social model theory has been developing in Britain since the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS) published their Fundamental Principles of Disability in 1976, followed shortly afterwards by Finkelstein's seminal exposition. Since then, various competing positions have been elaborated from this original starting point. Through a review of the literature, this article outlines the course of those developments to date, in order to show the full range and potential of social model theory. In recording some of the commentaries on each of the various theoretical strands which have emerged, it also highlights some areas in which further theorisation may be desirable in order to make more explicit the links between social model theory and disability movement practice.