New research has found the UK parliament is fraught with institutionalised ableism
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A look at the recent Supreme Court battle over priority use of wheelchair spaces on buses and what it really means for disabled people.
The German Green Party has proposed that the disabled should be able to claim back money spent on sex on medical grounds.
Many students with disabilities feel excluded from daily university life and the assumption is that they, not the institutions, must change.
When you find disabled people ‘inspiring’, perhaps that feeling is more about you than them.
Poor people with disabilities living in rural South Africa are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to accessing health care.
What’s holding disabled athletes back from getting more involved in fighting inequality?
The lack of service integration and the paucity of welfare services make poor people’s task of caring for their familes much harder. A small monthly cash transfer can’t solve all their challenges.
People with disabilities are often disappointed with their devices’ performance, and choose not to use them. To encourage innovation, a new competition tests assistive technologies.
Today’s violence and prejudice against people with disabilities goes back to the practice of institutionalization, which started in Europe and the United States a century ago.
The achievements of the Paralympians, and societal shift towards more inclusivity and the celebration of diversity, has had a dramatic effect on the lives of people living with disability.
Children with albinism are teased and physically bullied by classmates who don’t understand their condition. They withdraw from learning – and many ultimately leave school early.
Millions of people need to be confident that suitable public toilets will be available when they leave their homes. A shortage of such facilities is a serious problem for an ageing population.
British rom-com Me Before You has topped the box office in the UK and is about to reach Australia. It has all the clichés of feel-good romance (including a castle), but it has also been labelled a ‘disability snuff movie’.
Thousands of young people with disability who end up in nursing homes lead lives of isolation and boredom. Better and smarter housing finance and support options are at last being developed.
In 2012, nearly one-third of voters with a disability had trouble voting. A 2002 law was supposed to fix this problem. New technology may have the answer at last.
Characters with Down syndrome are extremely rare in novels and rarer still are stories written from their point of view. But people with disabilities have an equal right to belong in narrative fiction.
Some of the most vulnerable people in society are being kept alive by food banks.
How sexual attraction to a disabled body is about more than just desires of the flesh.
The European Union has played a key role in making buildings more accessible, homes more liveable and travel easier. But what would happen if the UK left?
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto
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Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta
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Assistant Professor, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, University of Calgary
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Dean, Faculty of Environmental Design, Université de Montréal, Full Professor School of Design, Université de Montréal
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Adjunct Professor, Summer Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University
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Fulbright Scholar, New York University
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Reader in Law, SOAS, University of London
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Research assistant, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Education, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Sensory-Motor Systems, ETH Zurich
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Stirling
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Professor of Business Analytics, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Queer Disability Studies and Education, Sheffield Hallam University