Professor Janice McLaughlinProfessor of Sociology, Sociology Subject Area, Newcastle University, United KingdomEmail: janice.mclaughlin@ncl.ac.ukProfilePublicationsExpertiseProfileMy research focus is on childhood disability, working across disability studies, medical sociology, sociology of the family, childhood studies, social anthropology, to explore the varied dynamics that shape their lives. I work with different qualitative methods to research with disabled children and young people in ways that seek to place their ideas and experiences at the centre. I explore theme such as: medical practices around diagnosis and intervention, interactions with social services and education, family life, social life and citizenship and rights.ResearchPublicationsMcLaughlin, J.; Coleman-Fountain, E. & Clavering, E.C. (2016) Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Difference and Emerging Identities. London: Routledge. McLaughlin, J. Goodley, D. Clavering, E.K. and Fisher, P. (2008) Families Raising Disabled Children: Values of Enabling Care and Social Justice, Basingstoke: Palgrave. McLaughlin, J. (2020) Relational Autonomy as a Way to Recognise and Enhance Children’s Capacity and Agency to be Participatory Research Actors. Ethics and Social Welfare. 14:2: 204-219. McLaughlin, J. (2020) Valuing Care and Support in an Era of Celebrating Independence: Disabled Young People’s Reflections on their Meaning and Role in their Lives. Sociology. Accepted 17th July 2019. 54(2):397-413. McLaughlin, J. and Coleman-Fountain, E. (2018) Visual Methods and Voice in Disabled Childhoods Research: Troubling Narrative Authenticity. Qualitative Research.19(4): 363-381. McLaughlin, J. (2017) The Medical Reshaping of Disabled Bodies as a Response to Stigma and a Route to Normality. Medical Humanities 43:244–250 ) McLaughlin, J. and Coleman-Fountain, E. (2014) The unfinished body: The medical and social reshaping of disabled young bodies. Social Science and Medicine. 120 (November) 76–84 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.012 McLaughlin, J. (2014) Digital imagery and child embodiment in paediatric genetics: Sources and relationships of meaning, Sociology. 48(2): 216-232 doi: 10.1177/0038038512472774ExpertiseQualitative and creative methods, co-production, social theories of childhood