Email: L.A.Livesley@soton.ac.uk
I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy.
My doctoral research (2021-25) is on the philosophy of disability; namely, what ought we to think of disability as being?
For the most up-to-date info on research & talks, please see my website.
My current research focuses on disability pride: what is it; how should it inform our theorising about disability; and how does it compare to other pride movements?
My doctoral work defended a radical social constructionist account of disability, on which we should understand disability as a kind of subordination in virtue of being believed to have a defective body. It was supervised by Alex Gregory (Soton), Havi Carel (Bristol) & Naomi Thompson (Bristol), and funded by an AHRC Studentship from the South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.
I'm interested in most aspects of disability, but also have broader interests across social and political philosophy, including:
I teach, or have taught, on:
I joined Southampton as a Doctoral Researcher in 2021. Before that I worked in academic libraries in Oxford for several years.
I did my undergraduate work in philosophy at the University of Cambridge, then moved to the University of Sheffield for their MA in Political Theory.
I'm originally from Leeds, West Yorkshire.