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Cripping Methodology Reading Group

Cripping, Sickening, Neurodiversifying & Maddening Methodology

Meeting year: 2026

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The Cripping Methodology Reading Group: Cripping, Sickening, Neurodiversifying & Maddening Pedagogy takes place on the 3rd Friday of the month in 2026.

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In 2026 there are a few logistical changes:

  • Most meetings will still be held on the 3rd Friday of the month, but check the schedule/email as there is some variation 

  • Since 2019, meetings have commenced 3pm, which continues. However, there is variation in duration changes, so please check the schedule/email.

 

As this is not a module and no teaching takes place, I have taken the liberty to not following a teaching format where, steps-wise, meeting content builds on each other. Instead, I have chosen to offer a variation between types of texts - i.e mixing up more methodological and more methods/'technique' style texts. I have only included readings to discuss that centre on -- rather than (merely) use or apply --methods/methodology. All texts have some aspect of cripness, sickness, madness or neurodivergence in their methodological angle, but in my selection I have also kept an intersectional focus in mind. 

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As it is very hard to find the methodology texts like the below, next to the readings for the meetings, I have added some 'other interesting readings for consultation' that I found. But, you are not expected to read these for the RG meeting. 

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  • To attend, click here for details how to be added to the mailing list. This also gives you access to the readings

  • Click here to go past readings​​​​​​

 

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Upcoming Cripping Methodology RG Meeting​​​​​​​

 

Meeting 113: 15 May 2026, 3-4.05pm UK [shorter meeting]

  • Topic: Writing  as method

  • Reading  :

    • Simplican, Stacy Clifford. (2017). "Feminist disability studies as methodology: Life-writing and the abled/disabled binary". Feminist Review, 115(1), pp.46–60.

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

    • Islam, Mohaiminul , & Jana, Ujjwal. (2023). "Disability Life Writing in India". In: Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez (Eds), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (pp.210–217): New York University Press.

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Future Meetings​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Meeting 114: 26 June 2026, 3-4.05pm UK [Note, this is the 4th Fri! - and it is a shorter meeting]

  • Topic: Liming

  • Reading  :

    • ​Stephens-Peace, Kat. (2024). "Liming as Black Methodology: Black Early Career Scholars Engage Black Humanity in Research". International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, pp.1-8

  • Other interesting readings for consultation

    • Cosenza, Julie. (2014). "Language matters: A dyslexic methodology". Qualitative Inquiry, 20(10), pp.1191–1201.

    • Attias, Michelle D. (2020). "Mind-meandering as AD(H)D methodology: An embodied, neuroqueer practice of art-making and resistance in dialogue with Kurt Cobain’s and Lee Lozano’s Journals," Research in Arts & Education, (Dec), 53–85 https://wiki.aalto.fi/download/attachments/185192372/_Michelle_Attias_4_2020-1.pdf​​

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July 2026: Summer Break

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Meeting 115: 21 August 2026, 3-4.15pm UK

  • Topic: Go-along method

  • Reading  :

    • Castrodale, Mark Anthony. (2018). "Mobilizing dis/ability research: A critical discussion of qualitative go-along interviews in practice". Qualitative inquiry, 24(1), pp.45–55.

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

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​​Meeting 116: 18 Sep 2026, 3-4.15pm UK

  • Topic: Co-researching

  • Reading  :

    • Dronkert, Leonie. (2023). "Cripping collaboration: Science fiction and the access to disability worlds". Medical Anthropology, 42(8), pp.720–736.

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

    • Liddiard, Kirsty, Whitney, Sally, Evans, Katy, et al. (2019). "Working the edges of Posthuman disability studies: theorising with disabled young people with life-limiting impairments". Sociology of Health & Illness, 41(8), pp.1473–1487.

    • Dwornik, Ania. (2021). "The interface of mad studies and indigenous ways of knowing: innovation, co-creation, and decolonization". Critical Social Work, 22(2), pp.25–39.

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Meeting 117: 16 Oct 2026, 3-4.15pm UK

  • Topic: Creative methods

  • Reading  :

    • Changfoot, Nadine, Rice, Carla, Chivers, Sally, et al. (2022). "Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings". Journal of Aging Studies, 63(100930), pp.1–9.

  • Other interesting readings for consultation ​​

    • Cosenza, Julie. (2014). "The crisis of collage: Disability, queerness, and chrononormativity". Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 14(2), pp.155–163

    • ​Klar, Estée, & Wolfond, Adam. (2021). "Neurodiversity in relation: Artistic intraethnographic practice". In: Jessica Nina Lester & Emily A Nusbaum (Eds), Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry (pp.22–36): Routledge

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Meeting 118: 20 Nov 2026, 3-4.15pm UK

  • Topic: Online ethnographic observation

  • Reading  :

    • Gibson, Margaret F, Livingstone, Bridget, Monroe, Hannah, et al. (2024). "Observing neurodiversity, observing methodology: Ethnography in pandemic times". International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, pp.1-13

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

    • Greco, Cinzia. (2022, 26/05). Divergent ethnography: Conducting fieldwork as an autistic anthropologist. Society for Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/divergent-ethnography-conducting-fieldwork-as-an-autistic-anthropologist

    • ​Péter, Hella. (2023, 05/12). How to navigate fieldwork. eLife. Retrieved from https://elifesciences.org/articles/94879​

    • Rogers, Emily Lim. (2023). "Virtual ethnography". In: Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez (Eds), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (pp.93–98): New York University Press.

    • Centrone, di Barbara, & Costantino, Elisa. (2025). "Multiple discrimination: an intersectional study on the embodied experience of LGBTQIAP+ disabled people". The Lab’s Quarterly, XXVII, pp.55–87

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Meeting 119: 11 Dec 2026, 3-4.15pm UK [note: this is the 2nd Fri]

  • Topic: Sensory methods

  • Special guest: the first author of this month's paper Dr Ben Barry will attend

  • Reading  :

    • Barry, Ben, Nesbitt, Philippa, & Strickfaden, Megan. (2024). "Multi-sensory methods: Toward a crip methodology in fashion studies". International Journal of Fashion Studies, 11(1), pp.81–109.

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

    • ​Riggs, Alexandra Teixeira, Janicki, Sylvia, Moesgen, Tim, et al. (2025). "Queer/Crip Body Mapping: Expressing Dynamic Bodily Experiences with Data". Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp.2884–2900), https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3715336.3735438.

    • Sitter, Kathleen, Young, Amber PE, Herrera, Ana, et al. (2025). "Multisensory Storytelling in Disability Arts: Innovations in Accessibility and Audience Engagement". Studies in Social Justice, 19(2), pp.336–360.​​​​​​

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Past Meetings

 

​​Meeting 109: 16 Jan 2026, 3-4.15pm UK

  • Topic: Introducing: cripping methodology

  • Readings: 

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

    • Johnson, Merri Lisa, & McRuer, Robert. (2014). "Cripistemologies: introduction". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 8(2), pp.127–148.

    • Patsavas, Alyson. (2014), "Recovering a cripistemology of pain," Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 8(2), 203–219 https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/kalagatos/article/view/13639/11824

    • McRuer, Robert, & Johnson, Merri Lisa. (2014). "Proliferating cripistemologies: A virtual roundtable". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 8(2), pp.149–169.

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Meeting 110: 20 Feb 2026, 3-4.15pm UK

  • Topic: Research ethics & knowledge production

  • Reading   (the second is a short piece):  

    • LeFrançois, Brenda A, & Voronka, Jijian. "Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production," In: Teresa Macías (Ed), Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences (pp.105–130): Fernwood Publishing.

    • Bruno, Grant, Anne Lindblom, Jessica Tupou, et al. (2025). Decolonizing autism research: Integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. Autism, 29(11), 2637–2643. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/13623613251382398

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

    • Rice, Carla, LaMarre, Andrea, & Mykitiuk, Roxanne. (2018). "Cripping the ethics of disability arts research". The Palgrave Handbook of Ethics in Critical Research (pp.257–272): Springer.

    • ​Wool, Zoë H (2023). "Lessons in yielding: Crip refusal and ethical research praxis". In: Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez (Eds), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (pp.162–169): New York University Press.

    • Munday, Katie. (2024). "The (In)Accessibility of UK Universities’ Ethics Application in Humanities and Social Sciences". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.309–324). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

    • Grant, Aimee, Williams, Kathryn, Henry, Karen, et al. (2024). "Co-developing an Autism Research Funding Application to Facilitate Ethical and Participatory Research: The Autism from Menstruation to Menopause Project ". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.61–80). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

    • Johansson, Shruti Taneja. (2024). "Fostering ethical and caring fieldwork practices in ADHD research". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.183–198). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

    • Meehan, Grainne. (2024). Research with deaf and hard-of-hearing women: reimagining social justice as flourishing. In Kathryn McGarry, Ciara Bradley, & Gloria Kirwan (Eds.), Rights and Social Justice Research: Advancing Methodologies for Social Change (pp. 99–119): Bristol University Press.

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​​Meeting 111: 20 Mar 2026

  • ​Topic: Accessing the field

  • Reading  :

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

    • Brown, Lindsey, & Boardman, Felicity K. (2011). "Accessing the field: Disability and the research process". Social Science & Medicine, 72(1), pp.23–30.

    • Wong, Alice. (2021). "Inside/out: Qualitative methods, online archives, and advocacy". In: Jessica Nina Lester & Emily A Nusbaum (Eds), Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry (pp.62–80): Routledge.

    • Selsdon, Helen. (2023). "Creating a fully accessible digital Helen Keller Archive". In: Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez (Eds), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (pp.170–177): New York University Press.

    • Chapman, Claire M. (2024). "Using Email Interviews to Understand Autistic Experiences". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.359–378). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

    • Heilig, L., & Sandell Hardesty, K. (2024). Acceptable thresholds: Learning from critical disability methodology to inform embodied qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, 1-11

    • Coelho, Luisa Bandeira. (2025). "Navigating International Sign in Glocal Deaf Networks: Developing Deaf-centred Methodologies in Transnational Deaf Community Spaces". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 14(2), pp.171–197, https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/1251/1379

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Meeting 112: 24 Apr 2026

  • Topic: Quantitative methods

  • Reading  :

    • Blanchard, Aurélien, Blanchard, Enka, & Shew, Ashley. (2024). "404 Not Found: Quantitative methods in Disability Studies". In: Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin & Tone Walford (Eds), Sage Handbook of Data and Society: Sage.

  • Other interesting readings for consultation 

  • Haber, Lawrence D. (1967). "Identifying the disabled: Concepts and methods in the measurement of disability". Soc. Sec. Bull., 30, pp.17.

  • Murray, C. J., & Lopez, A. D. (1994). "Quantifying disability: data, methods and results". Bull World Health Organ, 72(3), pp.481–494.

  • Cosier, Meghan. (2012). "“The Road Less Traveled”: Combining Disability Studies and Quantitative Analysis with Medium and Large Data Sets". Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 37(2), pp.81–88.

  • Gerrard, Paul. (2014). "Quantitative studies of validity: expanding our understanding of disability". Disability and Rehabilitation, 36(21), pp.1817–1822.

  • Waxman, Douglas. (2024). "Disability and employment research: Mind the gap". Handbook of Disability: Critical Thought and Social Change in a Globalizing World (pp.1151–1205): Springer.

  • Reutlinger, Corey, Vasquez, Ananí M., Koro, Mirka, et al. "Composing Sensory Neurodiverse Pedagogies Using Score Analysis". Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 0(0), pp.15327086251364250.

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Past readings - Cripping Methodology RG
Further reading suggestions Cripping Methodology RG

 

Further reading suggestions

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Find here suggestions of texts we have already read in previous reading groups and that touch on on methodology:

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