Centre for Culture and Disability Studies

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The Centre for Culture and Disability Studies is fundamentally concerned with Social Justice; with challenging and changing the disability inequalities and prejudices that people face on a daily basis. In particular, the centre is know for it's research on culture as a means by which inequalities and prejudices are both perpetuated and problematised.

The Centre's aims and objectives are:

• To analyse past and present cultural representation as a record of social attitudes towards disability.
• To create and endorse work that appreciates disability experience as a vital aspect of all knowledge.

The Centre combines disability studies with fields and disciplines that include aesthetics, art, cultural studies, education, film studies, gender studies, genre studies, georgraphy, happiness studies, history, humour studies, inclusion studies, international studies, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, medicine, philosophy, popular music studies, post colonial studies, psychology, queer studies, sociology, television studies and technology.

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Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool