The Barbellion Prize celebrates fiction and non-fiction that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. It is a cross-genre award for literature published in the English language. Information about eligibility can be found: barbellionprize.org

Most read article | JLCDS 'Difficult Patients, Difficult Poems: Madness and the Rhetorics of Difficulty' by @drewmcew.bsky.social. ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/JLCDS-McEwan #disabilitystudies @davidbolt13.bsky.social @disstudies.bsky.social @otdsnetwork.bsky.social

Great news about a couple of monographs in the Autocritical Disability Studies Series.. Ella Houston's Adverting Disability and Yoon-Joo Lee's Stories on Disability Through Our Voices: Born This Way will be republished in softback editions on the 22nd of June: www.routledge.com/Autocritical...

#DisabilityStudiesAtHope #MoreThanNeeds #OxfordResearchEncyclopediaOfDisabilityStudies As Editor-in-Chief, I am pleased to announce that the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies now has 65 articles live, some of which are open access: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies

Abstract. Disability can be thought of as the most universal of all identities. Whatever our gender, race, religion, nationality, class, or sexuality, we m

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Interrogating the ethics of visual methods: A critical disability studies critique of photovoice by Danielle Kohfeldt, David Bolt, and Robert Majzler is now freely available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.me...

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies: Now Live This encyclopedia provides current, peer-reviewed, trustworthy articles. It opens with 60 extended articles, including 5 that are Open Access. Access the content here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies

Abstract. Disability can be thought of as the most universal of all identities. Whatever our gender, race, religion, nationality, class, or sexuality, we m

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New Beginnings in Culture and Disability Studies: A Multiple Launch Event 5 June, 2026, Liverpool Hope University 10am-4.30pm, EDEN Arbour Room, EDEN Building, Childwall Campus To attend the free event it is necessary to book via our online store: store.hope.ac.uk/product-cata...

Dr Emma Swai has published 'Restricted More as a Daughter: The Interaction between Gender and Disability in the Gospel of Luke'. The open access article is a contribution to the Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

Disability and the Arts is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Changing Social Attitudes to Blindness is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Changing Social Attitudes to Dwarfism is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Changing Social Attitudes to Learning Disability is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Changing Social Attitudes to Mental Health is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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We now have an Autocritical Disability Studies playlist on the CCDS YouTube channel, which gives free access to some of the work done in the book series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXK...

The Metanarrative of Dwarfism

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Most Read in JLCDS | 'Noor Einy Movie: Portraying Egyptian Blind Women as Helpless, Dependent, and Incapable Mothers' by Ibrahim Emara. ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/JLCDS-Emara @davidbolt13.bsky.social @riacheyne.bsky.social

LUP have made an issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies free to access. I am proud to say that JLCDS is in its 20th volume, so I am sure you will enjoy reading this excellent general issue: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/jlcds/17/1 @livunipress.bsky.social

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25. For more information and to order a copy: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...

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So it "finally" arrived through my door. I am actually really proud of this chapter, purely because I wanted to open up on the fact that experience changes exegetes (even if we like to pretend it doesn't). Thank you @davidbolt13.bsky.social for giving me a soap box to stand on!

News item on Liverpool Hope University website: Professor instrumental in publishing 100 book-length works around Disability Studies... www.hope.ac.uk/news/allnews...

Ahead of #DisabilityHistoryMonth in the UK, browse the latest articles from JLCDS, including the latest from @helenevans.bsky.social: 'Crossing the Water: Musings on Inclusion and Higher Education' Read it online: bit.ly/JLCDS-Evans @davidbolt13.bsky.social

Damien Maguire, Associate Dean of External Engagement, interviews Professor David Bolt Professor at Liverpool Hope University. One focus of the conversation is the Disability Studies MA launched in 2013 and enrolling students in January and September. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcaI...

Professor David Bolt: Disability Studies Podcast

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To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month. bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖 @davidbolt13.bsky.social

Celebrating Disability History Month 2025

To mark Disability History Month in the UK, we’ve collated a reading list from our books and journals that engage with ideas and narratives of disability, particularly our leading journal, Th…

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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...

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I am delighted to be under contract to write a second edition of my 2019 book, Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide. #MoreThanNeeds

Disability Studies MA Programme Leader, Prof David Bolt Modules included are: Critical Disability Theory; Disability and Professional Practice; Modelling Disability; Disability and Disciplines; Research Methods; and a Dissertation. For information: www.hope.ac.uk/postgraduate...

The Playground Model of Disability: Dis/honesty Tropes in Contemporary British Sociocultural Representation New book by David Bolt – available with introductory discount For more information: www.routledge.com/The-Playgrou... For 20% discount use this code: 25AFLY3

The Playground Model of Disability: Dis/honesty Tropes in Contemporary British Sociocultural Representation

More than being counter to what we must surely endeavour to consider the status quo of honesty, not to mention the pursuit of truth that should still be fundamental in academia and education more broa...

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Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Volume 19 Issue 3 Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer The special issue can be accessed as a whole here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464

Most read in JLCDS this week 📚 'Mad Mothering: Learning From the Intersections of Madness, Mothering, and Disability' by Patty Douglas, Penny Fogg, @profkrc.bsky.social and @ryansara.bsky.social. Find it on the LUP website: bit.ly/JLCDS-Mad @davidbolt13.bsky.social

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta... @drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...

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Brilliant afternoon yesterday celebrating 15 years of #CCDS with powerful talks from some very important disability studies figures from Liverpool Hope! Thank you for all that you for disability studies - you are the reason we keep fighting ✊ #KnowledgeNotNeeds