Covid-19 and Disability

Join leading academics from Leeds for a series of live and interactive sessions on YouTube to discuss society’s response to Covid-19 and what recovery might look like.

Explore current research and data into the impact of the pandemic on disabled people.

The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated disabled people’s marginalisation in society and reinforced discriminatory practices across health, social care, education and broader welfare provision.

This is reflected in the United Nations’ call for states to recognise the socio-economic impact upon the disabled people’s community.

In this presentation, we will explore current research and data into the impact of the pandemic on disabled people. We will consider how, globally, disabled people are subjected to hostile and violent policies that result in the withdrawal of healthcare provision, a promotion of institutionalisation and extensive infringements of disabled people’s human rights.

Finally, we will explore how disabled people – and their organisations – are influencing the policy-making process and consider alternative, possible and preferable policy responses to support disabled people through the pandemic.

Presenters: Dr Miro Griffiths, Leverhulme Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, and Dr Tom Campbell, Associate Professor in Social Theory

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