The Living Life to the Fullest Project, led by iHuman and the School of Educations Dan Goodley, Katherine Runswick-Cole and Kirsty Liddiard, is proud to have collaborated with the publisher Emerald on its celebrations for International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) 2019.
Since 1992, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) has been annually observed on 3 December around the world. The theme for this 2019 IDPD is Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda.
The centring of disability and leadership in this years theme means a lot as a . We distribute leadership across our project, making space for disabled young people to become leaders of the research process in ways that are important to them.
As part of our IDPD celebrations, Living Life to the Fullest co-researcher, Sally Whitney, has co-produced a podcast with Emerald about her experiences of researching on the project. You , or
Sally said, 多aving worked on the topic of disability and researching disability and hearing from other young disabled people has helped me get more of an insight into my own disabled identity. I now consider things in a different way that I wouldnt have before. The young people that weve interviewed, the papers that weve written and the conclusions that weve come to have actually reflected back on to me and onto my thinking and how I feel about myself as a disabled young person. Its just been incredibly empowering to be working on papers with academic professionals whove been in the field for so long. Weve published papers in journals. Ive written a paper which has also been published. Im now co-leading an . Its a topic that I feel incredibly passionate about, having had the experience of having a wonderful assistance dog in my canine partner Ethan. Im so excited to be leading on that and to be doing more research into it. Were now writing a book which is amazing. I cant believe that Im in the situation where Im helping write a book Its just incredible that I have been welcomed into the team and that Im coproducing. Im co-producing research in the field of disability and its fantastic.
- Podcast: The Co-researchers Perspective with Sally Whitney, co-researcher on the University of Sheffield project Living Life to the Fullest
- Podcast: Disability, Community and Inclusion with Wendy Uttley, Down Syndrome Training and Support Service
- Blog: Participatory Design with Autistic Adults by Marc Fabri, Leeds Beckett University
- Blog: Chronically Angry by Alex Franklin, UWE
- Blog: Independence, interdependence, and the community by Mukta Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and Eddy Ng, Bucknell University
- Blog: Transforming Classroom Practices for Learners with Disabilities by Jeffrey Bakken, Bradley University
- Lots of free papers from a range of subjects
- Details of our latest opportunities to publish
The Living Life to the Fullest Project Team is currently writing a book that will be published by Emerald in 2020.
