Social research and disability: developing inclusive research spaces for disabled researchers

Part I Navigating the academy

Owning my room : building a safe, accessible and productive space for student researchers with complex communication disabilities / Annmaree Watharow

'On the outside looking in?' : reflections on being a disabled social and feminist geographer / Vera Chouinard

Closer look at 'wheelchair' ethnography : ableism and the insights disabled scholars generate with

not despite

their impairments and disabilities /

Karen Mogendorff

Dilemmas of self-identification and provision of disability support / Stuart Read, Caroline Miles, and Wendy Merchant

Part 2 Conducting research 'in the field'

Continuing adventures of a four-legged female researcher / Nancy Hansen

Ten affects of hidden, mental dis/abilities and the act of disclosure / Anita Z Goldschmied

Lived experience researchers : opportunities and challenges in mental health / Helena Roennfeldt and Louise Byrne

Part 3 Shifting methodologies

Unsettling ableism in research traditions : toward establishing blind methodologies / Cynthia Bruce

Deaf research methodologies? Confronting epistemological silences and challenges in qualitative research / Bronagh Byrne and Michael Schwartz

"Repeat after me" : Gestalt, fluency and biographical research / Ciaran Burke

Editorial reflections / Bronagh Byrne and Ciaran Burke.