The Department of Disability Studies will be hosting Dr Rebecca Fish for a week in November. Dr Rebecca Fish will be giving a hybrid lecture on Tuesday 26 November at 17:00.
Please find below more information about the event and register online.
For the people attending online, registration is available online as well.
In England, despite extensive deinstitutionalisation in the 1990s, a significant number of people with learning disabilities are held in residential units due to insufficient community supports.
Many of these 'mental health' units have been identified as inadequate, and abusive staff cultures can prevail. Shocking footage of staff cruelty was exposed by undercover BBC TV reporters in 2011 and 2019, yet people continue to be placed in residential units.
Dr Rebecca Fish, is a researcher who advocates for true inclusive research with disabled people. In this lecture, she will give an overview of the work she has done alongside learning-disabled people over the past decades, explaining how this has influenced policy and practice in the UK, and showing how the voices and experiences of disabled people and their loved ones can be privileged.
Biography
Dr Rebecca Fish has been doing research with people with learning disabilities since 1997. Her early work gathered perspectives from people in inpatient mental health services and has been featured in government evidence reviews and parliamentary debates.
She has presented her work in Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark, and has been a keynote speaker for the Restraint Reduction Network and the Royal Society of Medicine.
She is currently a researcher at the University of Central Lancashire, and a lecturer at Lancaster Medical School.
Her research summaries are accessible online.