Email: l.a.livesley@soton.ac.uk
I am a Postgraduate Research Student in Philosophy.
My doctoral research is on the philosophy of disability; namely, what ought we to think of disability as being?
My work is funded by an AHRC Studentship from the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.
My doctoral research asks what disability is and what it should be.
The broad aim is to offer an ameliorative account of disability, on which to be disabled is to be oppressed in a particular way based on social perceptions of one’s body. This stands in contrast to the traditional "medical" and "social" models of disability – of which I am critical – and draws on feminist work on social construction in particular.
I have broader interests across social and political philosophy, including:
I teach on:
For up to date info on research & talks, please see my website.
I joined Southampton as a Postgraduate Research Student 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.