Jen Slater BA (Hons), PhD, PGCLTHE
Reader in Disability Studies and Education
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Teaching
Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion
Development and Society
I teach in areas broadly related to my research across and number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Sheffield Institute of Education.
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Research
My research focuses on issues of disability, gender and the body. I am also interested in critical explorations of developmental discourse and issues of access/accessibility. My PhD research used a critical disability studies perspectives to explore meanings that we attach to ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’. More recently, I have led a series of AHRC-funded arts-based projects collectively known as, Around the Toilet. Around the Toilet explores the toilet as an embodied space of exclusion and belonging (https://aroundthetoilet.wordpress.com/). You can read more about my work on my academic blog at jenslater.wordpress.com
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Publications
SLATER, Jen, JONES, Charlotte and PROCTER, Lisa (2017). Troubling school toilets : resisting discourses of 'development' through a critical disability studies and critical psychology lens. Discourse : Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1-12. (In Press)
SLATER, Jenny and LIDDIARD, Kirsty (2017). “Like, pissing yourself is not a particularly attractive quality, let’s be honest” : learning to contain through youth, adulthood, disability and sexuality. Sexualities. (In Press)
SLATER, Jen (2017). Becoming women: the embodied self in image culture. Disability & Society, 32 (8), 1286-1288.
SLATER, Jenny, JONES, Charlotte and PROCTER, Lisa (2016). School toilets : queer, disabled bodies and gendered lessons of embodiment. Gender and Education, 1-15. (In Press)
SLATER, Jenny and CHAPMAN, Elizabeth (2016). Normalcy, Intersectionality and Ableism : teaching about and around ‘inclusion’ to future educators. In: RUNSWICK-COLE, Katherine, CURRAN, Tillie and LIDDIARD, Kirsty, (eds.) Building Understandings : Child, Youth, Family and Disability. Routledge. (In Press)
SLATER, Jenny (2016). The (Normal) Non-Normativity of Youth. In: MALLETT, Rebecca, OGDEN, Cassie and SLATER, Jenny, (eds.) Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane : Precarious Positions. Chester, University of Chester Press, 14-44.
MALLETT, Rebecca, OGDEN, Cassie and SLATER, Jenny, eds. (2016). Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane : Precarious Positions. Chester, University of Chester Press.
SLATER, Jenny (2016). Book Review: Little vast rooms of undoing exploring identity and embodiment through public toilet spaces. Disability and Society, 1-3. (In Press)
SLATER, Jenny (2015). X. Stresses and contradictions of trying to ‘do feminisms’ within the (neo)liberal academy. Feminism & Psychology, 12 (1), 56-60.
SLATER, Jenny (2015). Youth and disability: a challenge to Mr Reasonable. Interdisciplinary Disability Studies . Burlington, Ashgate.
SLATER, Jenny (2014). Book review: Feminist Queer Crip by Alison Kafer. Disability and Society, 29 (5), 840-844.
SLATER, Jenny (2012). Stepping outside normative neoliberal discourse: youth and disability meet – the case of Jody McIntyre. Disability and Society, 27 (5), 723-727.
SLATER, Jenny (2012). Self-advocacy and socially just pedagogy. Disability Studies Quarterly, 32 (1).
SLATER, Jenny (2012). Youth for sale: using critical disability perspectives to examine the embodiment of ‘Youth’. Societies, 2 (3), 195-209.
Other activities
Membership of Professional Bodies
2014 – Present: Member – Manchester Centre for Youth Studies
2012 - Present: Coordinator - Disability Research Forum (DRF)
2012 – Present: Member: Disability Studies at University of Sheffield (DS@UoS)
2012 – Present: Member - Critical Disability Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University (CDS@MMU)
2010 – 2012: Coordinator – CDS@MMU
2010 – 2012: Member - Feminist Reading and Research Group (MMU)
2010 – 2012: Member – Discourse Unit
Media
For media inquiries see here http://www4.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/dr-jenny-slater?filter=Education
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