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Dr Alex McClimens
PhD B.A. RNMH
Phone 0114 225 5917
E-mail a.mcclimens@shu.ac.uk
A senior research fellow in the Centre, Dr Alex McClimens joined Sheffield Hallam in September 2006 from the University of Sheffield where he was a lecturer in the Department of Mental Health and Learning Disability. He qualified R.N.M.H. from Edinburgh in 1986. He received his BA (First Class Hons.) from Sheffield Hallam University in 1992 and his PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2004.
Alex worked in practice with individuals labeled with learning disability in a variety of residential care settings across Sheffield between 1987 and 2004.
His research interests cluster around the collaborative research paradigm and associated methodologies. He has formed partnerships with local self-advocacy groups as well as with 'Words and Actions', a theatre/drama collective comprising individuals with variety of impairment/disability. Working with these collaborators he has delivered conference presentations and contributes regular material to the RCN journal Learning Disability Practice.
He is currently working with colleagues in the Centre for Professional and Organisation Development (CPOD) and at Speakup on a funded project to examine how local government officials deal with people with learning disabilities in routine day to day practice.
Research outputs: key publications since 2001
Journal articles
McClimens, A. Gordon, F. (2009) People With Intellectual Disability as Bloggers: what's social capital got to do with it anyway? Journal of Intellectual Disabilities 13;19
Aylott, J. Philips, K. McClimens, A. (2008) 'They Would Have Sacked Me Anyway: the real barriers to employment for people with Asperger's syndrome Good Autism Practice vol. 9 no. 1 pp32-39
McClimens, A. (2008) This is My Truth, Phonel me Yours British Journal of Intellectual Disabilities (in press)
McClimens , A. Gordon, F. (2008) Presentation of Self in E-veryday Life: How People Labelled with Intellectual Disability Manage Identity as They Engage the Blogosphere, Sociological Research Online, Volume 13, Issue 4.
McClimens, A. (2007) Language, Labels and Diagnosis: an idiot's guide to learning disability. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities vol.11 no.3 pp 257-266
McClimens, A., Scott, R. (2007) 'Lights, Camera, Education: the potentials of forum theatre within a learning disability nursing program', Nurse Education Today vol.27, no.3, pp.203-209
Abell, S. Ashmore, J., Beart, S. (et al) (2007) Including Everyone in Research: the Burton Street Research Group British Journal of Learning Disabilities 35, pp 121-124
Ramcharan, P. McClimens, A. Roberts, B. (2006) Out of Order, Community Care 22-28 June pp.34-35
McClimens, A. (2004) What Difference Does it Make Who is Speaking?: audience, ownership and authority in learning disability research, Journal of Learning Disabilities vol.6, no.1, pp.71-88
McClimens, A. (2003) Extending Choice: a Recipe for Disaster?, Learning Disability Practice, vol.6, no.2, pp.22-24
McClimens, A. (2003) The Organization of Difference, Mental Retardation 41 (1) pp.35-46
McClimens, A. (2002) All I Can Remember Were Tablets: Pat's Story, Journal of Learning Disabilities, vol. 6, no.1, pp.73-88
McClimens, A. (2001) 'Diary of a Supermarket Shelf-stacker: or how I learned to stop worrying and love ethnography' Sheffield Online Papers on Social Research, no.3, April 2001
Book chapters
McClimens, A (2008) Misconceptions and the reality of learning disabilities in C. Evans and E.Tippins (eds) Foundations of Nursing: an integrated approach Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education
McClimens, A., Grant, G. and Ramcharan, P. (in press) Looking in a fairground mirror: reflections on partnerships in learning disability research. In Nolan, M., Hanson, E., Grant, G. and Keady, J., eds. User Participation Research in Health and Social Care. Maidenhead: Open University Press and McGraw Hill Education.
McClimens, A. (2005) 'From Vagabonds to Victorian Values: The Social Construction of a Disability Identity' in 'Learning Disability: a Lifecycle Approach to Valuing People' Grant, G. Richardson, M. Goward, P. and Ramcharan, P. (eds) London: Open University/McGraw Hill
McClimens, A. Combes, H. (2005) 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sexuality and People with a Learning Disability but were Afraid to Ask' in 'Learning Disability: a Lifecycle Approach to Valuing People' Grant, G. Richardson, M. Goward, P. and Ramcharan, P. (eds) London: Open University/McGraw Hill
McClimens, A. (2005) 'Tales from the Pub', in D. Goodley and G. van Hove (eds) 'Another Disability Reader?'
Belgium: Garant.
Conference presentations
McClimens, A. Gordon, F. 'Blogging with an intellectual disability: identity management on and off line', a paper presented at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability Congress, Cape Town, S.A. August 2008
Grant, G. Ramcharan, P. McClimens, A. 'Inclusive research - is it time to shift the focus from processes to outcomes?', a paper presented at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability Congress, Cape Town, S.A. August 2008
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