Jen Slater BA (Hons), PhD, PGCLTHE

Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion

Social Sciences and Arts

I teach in areas broadly related to my research across and number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Sheffield Institute of Education.

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

Journal articles

Jones, C., & Slater, J. (2020). The toilet debate: stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women's protected spaces’. The Sociological Review. http://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120934697

Slater, J., Ágústsdóttir, E., & Haraldsdóttir, F. (2018). Becoming intelligible woman: Gender, disability and resistance at the border zone of youth. Feminism and Psychology, 28 (3), 409-426. http://doi.org/10.1177/0959353518769947

Slater, J., & Liddiard, K. (2018). Why Disability Studies Scholars Must Challenge Transmisogyny and Transphobia. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7 (2), 83-93. http://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v7i2.424

Slater, J., & Liddiard, K. (2018). “Like, pissing yourself is not a particularly attractive quality, let’s be honest” : learning to contain through youth, adulthood, disability and sexuality. Sexualities, 21 (3), 319-333. http://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688674

Slater, J. (2017). Becoming women: the embodied self in image culture. Disability & Society, 32 (8), 1286-1288. http://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1362187

Slater, J., Jones, C., & Procter, L. (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. http://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1316237

Slater, J., Jones, C., & Procter, L. (2016). School toilets : queer, disabled bodies and gendered lessons of embodiment. Gender and Education, 1-15. http://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1270421

Slater, J. (2016). Book Review: Little vast rooms of undoing exploring identity and embodiment through public toilet spaces. Disability and Society, 31 (3), 439-442. http://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2016.1141579

Slater, J. (2015). Chronic youth: disability, sexuality, and US media cultures of rehabilitation. DISABILITY & SOCIETY, 30 (9), 1452-1454. http://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1062226

Slater, J. (2015). X. Stresses and contradictions of trying to ‘do feminisms’ within the (neo)liberal academy. Feminism & Psychology, 12 (1), 56-60. http://doi.org/10.1177/0959353514562808

Slater, J. (2014). Book review: Feminist Queer Crip by Alison Kafer. Disability and Society, 29 (5), 840-844. http://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2014.888850

Slater, J. (2012). Youth for sale: using critical disability perspectives to examine the embodiment of ‘Youth’. Societies, 2 (3), 195-209. http://doi.org/10.3390/soc2030195

Slater, J. (2012). Self-advocacy and socially just pedagogy. Disability Studies Quarterly, 32 (1). http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3033

Slater, J. (2012). Stepping outside normative neoliberal discourse: youth and disability meet – the case of Jody McIntyre. Disability and Society, 27 (5), 723-727. http://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.686879

Book chapters

Jones, C., Slater, J., Lisney, E., Cleasby, S., Kemp, G., & Rennie, S. (2019). Pissed Off! Disability activists fighting for toilet access in the UK. In The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism. Routledge

Slater, J., & Chapman, E. (2017). Normalcy, Intersectionality and Ableism : teaching about and around ‘inclusion’ to future educators. In Runswick-Cole, K., Curran, T., & Liddiard, K. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies. (pp. 333-349). Palgrave Macmillan UK: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137544452

Slater, J. (2016). The (Normal) Non-Normativity of Youth. In Mallett, R., Ogden, C., & Slater, J. (Eds.) Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane : Precarious Positions. (pp. 14-44). Chester: University of Chester Press: http://storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12_14&products_id=626

Slater, J. (2016). The (Normal) Non-Normativity of Youth. In Mallett, R., Ogden, C., & Slater, J. (Eds.) Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane : Precarious Positions. (pp. 14-44). Chester: University of Chester Press: http://storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12_14&products_id=626

Slater, J. (2013). Research with dis/abled youth: Taking a critical disability, ‘critically young’ positionality. In Disabled Children's Childhood Studies: Critical Approaches in a Global Context. (pp. 180-195). http://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008220

Slater, J. (2013). Playing grown-up: Using critical disability perspectives to rethink youth. In Youth: Responding to Lives: An International Reader. (pp. 75-91). http://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-431-4

Books

Mallett, R., Ogden, C., & Slater, J. (Eds.). (2016). Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane : Precarious Positions. Chester: University of Chester Press. http://storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12_14&products_id=626

Slater, J. (2015). Youth and disability: a challenge to Mr Reasonable. Burlington: Ashgate. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546001

Reports

Slater, J., & Jones, C. (2018). Around the Toilet: a research project report about what makes a safe and accessible toilet space. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Hallam University. http://doi.org/10.7190/9781843874195

Theses / Dissertations

Tobias-Green, K. (2020). Stories from an artinstitution: The writinglives of students withdyslexia. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Slater, J. http://doi.org/10.7190/shu-thesis-00310

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

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