Many factors contribute to the oppression and discrimination of disabled people and to their
exclusion from key decisions affecting the quality of their lives. In the last two decades in …

The early 199Os witnessed the emergence of a radical new approach to researching
disablement known as 'emancipatory disability research'. This paper provides a broad …

This paper will argue that research on disability has had little influence on policy and made
no contribution to improving the lives of disabled people. In fact, up to now the process of …

Disability Studies is a relatively new and rapidly expanding field that offers radical
challenges to conventional thinking about the education of disabled children, and thus often …

It is now more than a decade since Mike Oliver used the term 'emancipatory'disability
research to refer to what for many seemed like a radical new approach to researching …

This paper uses criteria defined by Zarb to describe research undertaken with people with
learning difficulties, in the context of an emerging emancipatory paradigm. First, the paper …

This paper traces the relationship between the emergence of disability studies and the
struggle for meaningful inclusion for disabled people with particular reference to the work of …

This paper questions the prescription of emancipatory participatory research for studying
disability espoused by some disability researchers and activists. The paper argues that the …

The development of disability studies as an academic discipline is inextricably linked with
the rise of the disabled people's movement that effectively began in the 1970s. In this paper …

This paper evaluates qualitative research methods in relation to the emancipatory research
model. It identifies the main reasons why researchers opt for qualitative research, describes …