Engaging with Policy, Practice and Publics

Foreword : Intersectionality in publics, policy and practice ~ Ruth Ibegbuna


Engaging with policy, practice and publics: an introduction ~ Sarah Marie Hall and Ralitsa Hiteva;


Part I: Encounters with difference


Dwarfism expectations: intersections of gender, disability and (hetero)sexuality in engagements with potential participants ~ Erin Pritchard;


'You're not from 'round here, are you?': Class, accent and dialect as opportunity and obstacle in research encounters ~ Sarah Marie Hall;


Part II: Experts and expertise


Participants as experts in their own lives: researching in post-industrial, intergenerational and post-colonial space ~ Michael Richardson


Encounter(ing) spaces and experts: negotiating stakeholder relations within infrastructure research ~ Ralitsa Hiteva


Theorising transdisciplinary research encounters: energy and Illawarra, Australia ~ Gordon Waitt


Part III: Research, power and institutions


Nomadic positionings: a call for critical approaches to disability policy in Canada ~ Pamela Moss and Michael J. Prince


Critic, advocate, enforcer: the multiple roles of academics in public policy ~ John Paul Catungal


Conclusions: encountering and building on difference ~ Ralitsa Hiteva and Sarah Marie Hall