Adults only: disability, social policy and the life course

This article examines the relationship between disability, generation and social policy. The moral and legislative framework for the post-war welfare settlement was grounded in a long-standing cultural construction of ‘normal’ life course progression. Disability and age (along with gender) were the key components in this construction, defining broad categories of welfare dependency and labour force exemption. However, social changes and the emergence of new policy discourses have brought into question the way in which we think about dependency and welfare at the end of the twentieth century. The article suggests that, as policy-makers pursue their millennial settlement with mothers, children and older people, they also may be forced to reconstruct the relationship between disabled people and the welfare state

They Came To a City

The program was scanned from an original held in the University Archives.This play was produced and directed by Thelma Baulderstone. It was staged at the Hut from 21st to 23rd May 1945

Lateral variations in the crustal structure of the Indo-Eurasian collision zone

We thank Michael Ritzwoller and two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments that have helped improve the manuscript. The majority of the seismic data used in this study were downloaded from IRIS DMC. Data for the NGRI stations in India were provided by S. S. Rai, and Zahid Rafi provided the PMD Pakistan data. Kajal Borah provided the ambient noise cross-correlations for the Uttaranchal network. Figures were prepared using Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) software (Wessel and Smith, 1998). We thank Robert Herrmann for making the Computer Programs in Seismology freely available.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Parasites, pawns and partners: disability research and the role of non-disabled researchers

Important methodological questions are raised by the act of researching disablement. Disability research has attracted much methodological criticism from disabled people who argue that it has taken place within an oppressive theoretical paradigm and within an oppressive set of social relations. These issues are of heightened significance for non-disabled researchers and bear many similarities to those faced by researchers investigating barriers to the social inclusion of women, Black and ‘Third World’ peoples. Such challenges have led to the development of an ‘emancipatory’ research paradigm. Six principles of emancipatory research are identified and the authors’ own research projects are critically examined within this framework. A number of contradictions are identified and an attempt made to balance the twin requirements of political action and academic rigour

Disability and disaster recovery: a tale of two cities?

This paper examines the connections between disability and disaster from a global perspective. Concepts from the research and policy literature are used to distinguish between individual and social models of disability, and between natural hazards and human disasters. These concepts are then employed to investigate data on the response to disabled people’s recovery needs in two recent case studies: the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. The analysis combines primary, secondary and tertiary sources to explore disability issues in the reconstruction of inclusive communities and the lessons that may be learned about disaster preparedness in poor communities. The conclusions suggest that more attention should be paid to social model approaches, particularly in understand global links with poverty, and that disabled people’s organisations should be resourced as agents of disaster recovery and preparedness

On the evolution of intra-cluster gas within Galactic globular clusters

It has been known since the 1950's that the observed gas content of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) is 2-3 orders of magnitude less than the mass lost by stars between Galactic disk crossings. In this work we address the question: What happens to this stellar gas? Using an Eulerian nested grid code, we present 3D simulations to determine how stellar wind material evolves within the GC environment. We expand upon work done in the 70's and move a single-mass King-model GC through the Galactic halo medium, stripping a 10^5 Msun GC of its intra-cluster medium but predicting a detectable medium for a 10^6 Msun cluster. We find from new multi-mass King model simulations, the first to incorporate empirical mass-loss formulae, that the single-mass King model underestimates the retention of intra-cluster gas in the cluster. Lastly, we present a simple discretised multi-mass GC model, which yields lower levels of intra-cluster medium compared to the continuous single- and multi-mass King models. Our results show that there is still an issue with the predicted intra-cluster gas content of massive GCs. We conclude that by modelling GC systems more accurately, in particular the stellar structure and description of mass loss, we will be able to work towards resolving this issue and begin to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of the evolution of globular clusters.Comment: 19 pages, 19 pdf figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ

OH+^+ emission from cometary knots in planetary nebulae

We model the molecular emission from cometary knots in planetary nebulae (PNe) using a combination of photoionization and photodissociation region (PDR) codes, for a range of central star properties and gas densities. Without the inclusion of ionizing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, our models require central star temperatures $T_*$ to be near the upper limit of the range investigated in order to match observed H$_2$ and OH$^+$ surface brightnesses consistent with observations - with the addition of EUV flux, our models reproduce observed OH$^+$ surface brightnesses for $T_* \ge 100 \, {\rm kK}$. For $T_* < 80 \, {\rm kK}$, the predicted OH$^+$ surface brightness is much lower, consistent with the non-detection of this molecule in PNe with such central star temperatures. Our predicted level of H$_2$ emission is somewhat weaker than commonly observed in PNe, which may be resolved by the inclusion of shock heating or fluorescence due to UV photons. Some of our models also predict ArH$^+$ and HeH$^+$ rotational line emission above detection thresholds, despite neither molecule having been detected in PNe, although the inclusion of photodissociation by EUV photons, which is neglected by our models, would be expected to reduce their detectability.Comment: Accepted by MNRAS, 11 pages, 15 figures. Author accepted manuscript. Accepted on 24/04/18. Deposited on 27/04/1