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Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers?

open access: yesSocieties, 2016
The impact of robots on employment is discussed extensively, for example, within the academic literature and the public domain. Disabled people are known to have problems obtaining employment.
Gregor Wolbring
doaj   +2 more sources

Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Policy Adm, 2022
This paper reports on in‐depth qualitative interviews conducted with 69 disabled people in England and Scotland, and with 28 key informants from infrastructure organisations in the voluntary and statutory sectors, about the impact of COVID‐19, and ...
Shakespeare T   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Should I Say “Disabled People” or “People with Disabilities”? Language Preferences of Disabled People Between Identity- and Person-First Language

open access: yesInternational ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2022
The usage of identity- (e.g., “disabled people”) versus person-first language (e.g., “people with disabilities”) to refer to disabled people has been an active and ongoing discussion.
Ather Sharif   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Employers: influencing disabled people’s employment through responses to reasonable adjustments

open access: yesDisability & Society, 2022
Obtaining reasonable adjustment(s) (RAs) legally requires disabled people to disclose their impairment(s) to their employer, the provision of which can be crucial to them performing the essential duties of their job.
J. Olsen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Equity/Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Universities: The Case of Disabled People

open access: yesSocieties, 2021
The origin of equity/equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives at universities are rooted in the 2005 Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network) charter from Advance HE in the UK, which has the purpose of initiating actions that ...
G. Wolbring, Aspen Lillywhite
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disabled people in the time of COVID-19: identifying needs, promoting inclusivity

open access: yesJournal of Global Health, 2021
www.jogh.org • doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.03007 1 2021 • Vol. 11 • 03007 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to stark relief, and further exacerbated, social disparities, including those experienced by disabled people, a global population of over 1 billion ...
E. Rotarou   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring barriers to social inclusion for disabled people: perspectives from the performing arts

open access: yesJournal of Management & Organization, 2021
Although the potential of arts to promote social inclusion is recognised, barriers to social inclusion for disabled people in the arts is under-researched. Based on 34 semi-structured interviews with disabled people and those without disability from four
A. Collins   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences

open access: yesSociology, 2022
Recent decades have witnessed a renewed interest in stigma and its effects on life-course trajectories of disabled people. However, sociological narratives largely adopt monolithic understandings of disability, neglecting contextual meanings of different
Stella Chatzitheochari, A. Butler-Rees
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Implications of internalised ableism for the health and wellbeing of disabled young people

open access: yesSociology of Health and Illness, 2022
When conceptualising health and wellbeing among disabled people, the experience of internalised ableism must be considered. In this article, we argue that internalised ableism is indeed a health and wellbeing issue that materialises in numerous complex ...
Ásta Jóhannsdóttir   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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