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Research Outputs

This page provides information about research progress, as well as sharing findings and dissemination materials as they develop.

Project Newsletter

Our newsletters provided updates on all aspects of the project across fieldwork progress, findings development, and policy and practice engagement.

Winter 2025 project newsletter

Summer 2024 project newsletter

Front cover of the article Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People: In Search of Good Transitions. Available to download here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/spol.13131

Publications

We are sharing our findings in multiple ways… As well as the newsletters, policy briefs and conference presentations, we are sharing the work in academic journals

Charlotte Pearson, Jane Cullingworth, Katie Salmon, Janice McLaughlin, Nick Watson, Tracy Shildrick and Amanda Bailey (2025) Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People: In Search of Good Transitions. Social Policy and Administration. Early View

Open Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/spol.13131

The research is being shared at a variety of conferences. Below are pdfs of just some of the conference presentations we have given.

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Research Conferences

Cullingworth, J., Coleman-Fountain, N., McLaughlin, J., Pearson, C., Salmon, K., Shildrick, T., Watson, N. (2025) Policy failure in the lives of young disabled people: In search of new parameters for good transitions, NNDR, Helsinki, May.

Cullingworth, J., Coleman-Fountain, N., McLaughlin, J., Pearson, C., Salmon, K., Shildrick, T., Watson, N. (2025) Facilitating transitions in the lives of disabled young people - the third sector as family, Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference, London, September.

Cullingworth, J., Coleman-Fountain, N., McLaughlin, J., Pearson, C., Salmon, K., Shildrick, T., Watson, N. (2025) Creativity and Disabled Youth Transitions: Beyond Failure A Queer-Crip Narrative Analysis. BSA Medical Sociology Conference, Northumbria, September.

Cullingworth, J., Coleman-Fountain, N., McLaughlin, J., Pearson, C., Salmon, K., Shildrick, T., Watson, N. (2025) Intergenerational Familial Care Practices in Contexts of Disability and Chronic Illness. BSA Medical Sociology Conference, Northumbria, September.

Cullingworth, J., Coleman-Fountain, N., McLaughlin, J., Pearson, C., Salmon, K., Shildrick, T., Watson, N. (2025) Navigating transitions into adulthood: the role of parents in facilitating independent living, International Conference on Educational and Life Transitions, Online, August.

Cullingworth, J., Coleman-Fountain, N., McLaughlin, J., Pearson, C., Salmon, K., Shildrick, T., Watson, N. (2025) Spaces of stigma and of recognition: Disabled youth transitions in austerity. Recalibrating Stigma: Conceptualising Health and Illness’ workshop, University of Edinburgh, June 2025

Pearson, C., Coleman-Fountain, E., Cullingworth, J., McLaughlin, J., Salmon, K. Shildrick, T., Watson, N. (2024) Policy failure in the lives of young disabled people: In search of new parameters for good transitions, SPA, University of Strathclyde, July.

Cullingworth, J., Coleman-Fountain, N., McLaughlin, J., Pearson, C., Salmon, K., Shildrick, T., Watson, N. (2024) Disabling Disabled Young Adult Transitions: Contemporary Experiences of Precarity Uncertainty, and Intersectionality in Youth Transitions. Disability Studies Conference, Leeds, September