Research output per year
Research output per year
Research Student
Research activity per year
My PhD research, undertaken in collaboration with the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People. focuses on the history of the Disabled People's Movement (DPM) in Britain and, in particular, its contribution to political theory. Utilising the recently opened Disabled People's Archives in Manchester - the largest collection of DPM papers in Britain - I seek to show the depth and nuance of the DPM's analytic models and theoretical positions; foregrounding the concrete emancipatory struggles and competing visions of equality and liberation which made this intellectual work possible. Against modern readings of the DPM's analysis, I argue that this intellectual corpus is neither monolithic, myopic, nor reductive; and is best understood as a complex integration of macrological social theory, institutional critique, and theories of social change into an operational model of social movement practice. This entails that the DPM's history and theoretical productions are read in dialogue with political economy, theories of the state, and contemporary social movement history.
Bachelor, Certificate in Professional Studies: Archives and Records Management (Awarded with Distinction), University of Liverpool
Award Date: 1 Jul 2024
Master, MA: Continental Philosophy, University of Warwick
Award Date: 14 May 2014
Senior Teaching Associate
Oct 2024 → Jan 2025
Teaching Associate
Jan 2024 → Jun 2024
Lead Development Worker - Disabled People's Archive
Aug 2022 → Jan 2024
Researcher
Jun 2020 → Dec 2020
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Beesley, L. (Examiner)
Activity: External examination and supervision › Taught course
Beesley, L. (Presenter)
Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
Beesley, L. (Organiser) & Sutherland, Z. (Organiser)
Activity: Events › Conference
Beesley, L. (Examiner)
Activity: External examination and supervision › Taught course
Beesley, L. (Presenter), Govier, D. (Presenter), Graby, S. (Presenter), Lopez, M. (Presenter) & Hewkin, O. (Presenter)
Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk