Developing a quality-of-life measure for autistic children and young people in schools

Aim: To develop a quality-of-life measure to be used by both school staff and autistic children and young people (CYP) in schools, in which public and community involvement (PCIE) is at the heart of the research.  Method: A prevalence questionnaire survey will be conducted with 20 primary and secondary schools across Kent, Surrey, and Sussex (KSS). 10 semi-structured interviews will be conducted with autistic CYP. This will inform development of a quality-of-life measure for autistic CYP. Results: Work so far has included PCIE in the early stages of the project, in which young people, school staff and collaborators have contributed to the study set up and designing study materials. Conclusion: With PCIE included in the planning of the project, the research team is confident that this will be useful further along in the project with dissemination and validating and implementing a quality-of-life measure for autistic CYP in schools

Critical Pathways to Disability Decarceration: Reading Liat Ben-Moshe and Linda Steele

I consider how Liat Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability and Linda Steele’s Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion contribute to emerging conversations between critical disability studies and anti-carceral studies, and between disability deinstitutionalization and prison abolitionism. I ask: what if any role might law, or specifically rights-based litigation, play in resisting carceral state strategies and redirecting material and conceptual resources toward supports for diverse forms of flourishing? I centre my remarks on the special relevance of Ben-Moshe’s and Steele’s books to social movement activism in Atlantic Canada and critical reappraisal of Canada’s solitary confinement litigation

"We're the conduit in an increasingly broken system": A qualitative exploration of how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the provision of social prescribing for older adults in the UK.

Social prescribing helps to address the social determinants of health via engagement with community organisations. In England, the rollout of social prescribing coincided with onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which changed service delivery. Older adults are  often the focus of social prescribing, and the pandemic had a disproportionate effect on this population due to their clinical risk, which resulted in a strict lockdown that negatively impacted their wellbeing. This study aimed to explore the UK-wide impact of the pandemic on social prescribing services for older adults (SO+)

Photos in Transmotion: Images of Survivance in Ledfeather

Stephen Graham Jones’ Ledfeather (2008), a semi-epistolary, semi-historical novel, poses questions about how historical knowledge is made and what to do with it. While scholars have studied the novel’s postmodern attributes as methods for subversive critiques of historiography in indigenous colonial contexts, as of yet no study prioritizes the novel’s use of photographs toward these aims. After situating the novel’s engagement with photographs into histories of photography and indigenous colonization, I examine the rhetorical role of these photos in the complex Ledfeather narrative. Guided by Gerald Vizenor’s framing of “the indian [as] poselocked in portraiture” (Fugitive Poses 146), I argue that the photos enact Vizenor’s sense of transmotion, or “the tease of creation in pictures, memories, and stories” (Fugitive Poses 173). I end by considering the rhetorical relationships between images and words both in archival collections that are specific to these histories and in Ledfeather as postmodern historical fiction

Critical Disability Studies and the State

Liat Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, and Linda Steele’s Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion offer distinct critical perspectives on the law and by extension, the State. This essay offers some reflections on the implications for future research in Critical Disability Studies on the State and its relation to disability. Here it is argued that there is scope for a widened analysis of, firstly, what exactly the State is from the perspective of disability; secondly, the distinct role of the State in participating in the construction of disability as a form of social oppression; and finally, the tactical problem posed by the State, as both agent of violence against people with disability and a potential vehicle for structural change

Introduction to Laws of Social Reproduction Lectures

Prabha Kotiswaran introduces the following three lectures by Kerry Rittich (2020), Silvia Federici (2021) and Veronica Gago (2022), which emanated from an EU-supported research project titled 'Laws of Social Reproduction'

DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times (Eileen R. Tabios)

This review looks at Indigenous futurisms inherent in this slipstream novel by a Filipina author. The Indigenous value of "kapwa" informs the structure and content of this experiemental narrative work that includes embedded poetry, literary theory, history, political history and theory, and more. The author suggests how an alternative view of time allows for integration and synthesis rather than fragmentation

Older adults learning to use digital technology: A case study approach.

Poster Submissio

Sharon Thompson, Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022)

Review of Sharon Thompson, Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022)

EDITORIAL Bite-Sized Pedagogy in Experiential Learning Cycles and Effectiveness of Top Tips in Higher Education.

Bite-Sized learning is a modern approach to education that emphasises short, focused lessons that can be completed quickly and easily. Bite-Sized learning has become a popular strategy for delivering educational content in small, focused chunks. It has been shown to be effective in improving learning outcomes and productivity. This editorial focuses on the effectiveness of Bite-Sized learning and its benefits in relation to Kolb's model of experiential learning and provides rationale for  Accepting Bite-Sized Pedagogical submissions to AJPP