Resources
External links to information and groups that might interest you:
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Promoting the human rights of children and young people.
Action for Kids (Youth Participation)
Mobility aids, work-related learning and family support services.
Helpline and support to help families deal with bullying.
Making Ourselves Heard – newsletters
Promotes the active participation of disabled children and young people.
Connects young people with volunteering opportunities.
Youth NetAdvice, information and support to young people aged 16 to 25.
Whizz KidzCommunity events for young people in wheel chairs.
Youtube Video links:
Beacon Hills Arts youtube channel
Resources we have produced from the project
If anything is not available to downloand from here, do email (janice.mclaughlin@ncl.ac.uk) to request a copy
Project Reports
The Body Matters: Exploring Disability and the Body with Disabled Young People
A summary of what the young people produced and shared with us.
The Body Matters Project: Creative Workshops
A summary of the group workshops we ran in to the project with participants.
Summary of the creative practice workshops
Academic Papers
Coleman-Fountain, E. and McLaughlin, J. (2013) The Interactions of Disability and Impairment, Social Theory and Health, 11(2): 133–150
Social Theory and Health Paper
Seminar Presentations
2013 Coleman-Fountain, E. and McLaughlin, J. ‘Unfinished Young Disabled Bodies: Practices and Stories of Body Intervention’, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), Glasgow University, November.
2013 Coleman-Fountain, E. and McLaughlin, J. ‘Making Independent Bodies? Disabled Youth, Adult Citizenship and Care’, Leverhulme International Network Symposium ‘Combating Young Disabled People's Worklessness: An International Network’, September, Durham.
2013 Coleman-Fountain, E. and McLaughlin, J. 'Re-Shaping Young Disabled Bodies: Exploring the implications of and reasons for different forms of medical and self-intervention,' Privileged Embodiments: Securing and Resisting the ‘Valuable’ Body’, PEALS International Spring Symposium, March, Newcastle.
Conference Presentations
2013 Coleman-Fountain, E. and McLaughlin, J. 'Being Looked At: Disabled Youth, Photography, and Images of Bodily Difference'. The Public Image, The International Association of Visual Sociology Conference, Goldsmith University, London, July.
2013 Coleman-Fountain, E. and McLaughlin. 'Re-Shaping Young Disabled Bodies: Exploring the implications of and reasons for different forms of medical and self-intervention’, Practices and their Bodies. What Kind of Artefact is the Lived Body’ Conference, Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies Conference, University of Mainz, April.
Reshaping Bodies Conference Presentation
2013 Coleman-Fountain, E. and McLaughlin, 'Doing and Being Seen: Disabled Young Bodies, Photography and Narrative Identity', Nordic Network on Disability Research Conference, Turku, Finland, May.
2013 Coleman-Fountain, E. and McLaughlin, J. 'Re-Shaping Young Disabled Bodies: Exploring the implications of and reasons for different forms of medical and self-intervention’ Nordic Network on Disability Research Conference, Turku, Finland, May.
2012 Coleman-Fountain E. (2012) 'Uncertain Developments: Exploring the significance of bodies in stories of aging', European Association of Anthropologists Biannual Conference at the University of Nanterre, Paris, July.