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Professor Mike Oliver: Outpouring of admiration for social model pioneer

By John Pring on 7th March 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Professor Mike Oliver: Outpouring of admiration for social model pioneer
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The death of the disabled academic who first defined the “social model of disability” has led to an outpouring of admiration, affection and grief from leading figures in the disabled people’s movement. Their responses highlighted the status of Professor Mike Oliver […]

Legal action threat over wheelchair service’s ‘bullying, delays and poor service’

By John Pring on 9th August 2018 Category: Independent Living

Legal action threat over wheelchair service’s ‘bullying, delays and poor service’
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Wheelchair-users in Kent are threatening to take legal action over growing concerns about delays, poor service and even bullying and harassment by the company running the NHS wheelchair services contract in the county.  Four disability groups – Kent’s Physical Disability Forum […]

Oliver comes out of retirement to deliver stinging rebuke to ‘parasite’ charities

By John Pring on 30th November 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Oliver comes out of retirement to deliver stinging rebuke to ‘parasite’ charities
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One of the key figures in the disabled people’s movement has come out of retirement to deliver a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities. Professor Mike Oliver (pictured), the disabled academic who first defined the “social model of disability”, was speaking at […]

University apologises after asking social model critic to deliver first ‘Finkelstein lecture’

By John Pring on 9th November 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

University apologises after asking social model critic to deliver first ‘Finkelstein lecture’
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A university has been forced to remove the name of a pioneer of the disabled people’s movement from an annual series of lectures, after it invited a leading critic of his work to deliver the first talk. The University of Leeds […]

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