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ArticleScandinavian journal of disability research : SJDR2025

The Depathologising University.

Dan Goodley, Kirsty Liddiard, Rebecca Lawthom

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Article in Scandinavian journal of disability research : SJDR, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Dan GoodleyiHuman, School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0660-5671
Kirsty LiddiardiHuman, School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9658-9718
Rebecca LawthomiHuman, School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2625-3463

Funding

Wellcome Trust 226705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been argued that the university needs depathologising, a radical rethink and reorientation of the university's relationship with disability. This paper offers an original affirmative proposition: that the university is already depathologising. Inspired by disabled people's activism and scholarship, we explore the ways in which academics, researchers and research professional colleagues are depathologising the disablist and ableist university. We reflect on our practices as principal investigators and research leaders of three funded research projects using novel composite conversations (a unique methodological form of experimental writing) and explore (i) pushing back at university bureaucracy towards co-production; (ii) critically appropriating the performative university and (iii) enabling access as colleagues. Depathologisation invites us to pause, to meditate and to significantly reimagine the university. And those of us who work in the university are the university, and we all have work to do.

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critical disability studiesdepathologisingresearch cultureresearch projectuniversity

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PMID41244654
PMCPMC7618347

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