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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 […]

Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows

By John Pring on 22nd February 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it has been running a discriminatory benefit sanctions regime, following the publication of new research. Academic Ben Baumberg Geiger has found that more than 900,000 disabled claimants of the mainstream […]

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 […]

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