What do the manifestos say about disability? Chris Grover and Hannah Morgan There are 14 million disabled people in the UK (over a fifth of its population). They are more likely to be unemployed, in p…
By Rebecca Fish In 2005 I published some research with my colleague, Eloise Culshaw, about physical intervention (commonly referred to as restraint) on locked wards for people with learning disabiliti…
Brown, M., James, E. and Hatton, C. (2019) Is Care Transformed? A Review of Transforming Care in England Lancaster: Centre for Disability Research. This report is available in pdf and word (docx) form…
Rebecca Fish and Hannah Morgan People with learning disabilities have to stay in secure units if they have broken the law or if they are a risk to themselves or other people. It is important that peop…
We were delighted to host our Danish NNDR colleague Anthon Sand Jørgensen for a short visit this autumn. Anthon, who is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Work Via University Colle…
Dr Sue Cranmer (Lecturer, Department of Educational Research) Dr Sue Cranmer’s recent research explored how disabled children use technology such as computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets and th…
Rebecca Fish and Hannah Morgan Introduction Some research from Canada and the US says that more young men are self-harming. There is a small amount of research from the UK. This says that when men s…
Evening routines in the community By Elaine James, Mark Harvey and Rob Mitchell Accessible summary by Rebecca Fish An NHS England report called Building the right support was published in 2015. The re…
Rebecca Fish In 2012, I spent time in three of women’s wards in an NHS learning disability secure unit. I wrote a book about it called ‘Locked Away’. I asked women what they liked about living h…
by Dr Rebecca Fish, Professor Chris Hatton (Lancaster University) and Professor Umesh Chauhan (UCLAN) Introduction We recently worked on a study that was commissioned by East Lancashire Clinical Commi…
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