O'brien, Dai

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Name:

O'brien, Dai

Email:

d.obrien@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education Language and Psychology

Address:

Lord Mayor's Walk, York, YO31 7EX

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Expertise:

Deaf, Deafhood, BSL, Bourdieu, Creative research methods, Spatial theory

Job title:

Associate Professor in BSL and Deaf Studies

Biography:

My area of interest lies in all aspects of Deaf studies, in particular Deafhood, Deaf space, Deaf education and the effects of mainstream education on the Deaf community. I am keen to develop a more sociological understanding of the Deaf community in the UK. I am also interested in developing visual research methods for researching in partnership with the Deaf community, to make the research process more accessible and more Deaf-friendly. I am one of the founders of the Bridging the Gap conference series, which aims to bring together Deaf Studies professionals and the Deaf community.

Qualifications:

PhD Social Work – University of Bristol, December 2012. Thesis title: “d/Deaf young people's experiences of transition planning in England: using auto-driven photo-elicitation interviews and Critical Discourse Analysis to explore experiences of policy and practice”. MRes Sociology – University of Bristol, September 2009. Dissertation title: “d/Deaf people’s experience of the transition from mainstream schooling to higher education in the UK”. MSc Deaf Studies – University of Bristol, July 2006. Dissertation title: “What’s the sign for pint? An invesigation into the validity of two different models to describe Bristol’s current Deaf pub culture”. BSc (hons) Biological Sciences – University of Bristol, July 2004

My Latest

Sauntson, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0373-1242, Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624, Ennser-Kananen, Johanna and O'brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2025) Language and social justice: an introduction to linguistic activism. Routledge
Emery, Steve and O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2025) L.A. Motler: a deaf anarchist. Anarchist Studies, 33 (1). pp. 29-58.
Amm, Richard and Dai, O'Brien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2024) Find the others - Disability & anarchism. In: Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism. 2 ed. Palgrave (Submitted)
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568, Hodge, Gabrielle, Gulamani, Sannah, Rowley, Kate, Adam, Robert, Emery, Steve and Walker, John (2023) Deaf professionals’ perceptions of trust in relationships with signed/spoken language interpreters. Translation & Interpreting, 15 (2). pp. 25-42.
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2023) Deaf academics in the university in the UK. In: Language and Identities in the University: Navigating Marginal Identities in Institutional Settings (provisional). University of Exeter Press (Submitted)
Skyer, Michael, Scott, Jessica A and O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2023) <O/ No Power but Deaf Power \O>: Revitalizing Deaf Education Systems via Anarchism. Social Inclusion, 11 (2).
Chua, M., De Meulder, Maartje, Geer, Leah, Henner, Jonathan, Hou, Lynn, Kubus, Okan, O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 and Robinson, Octavian (2022) 1001 Small Victories: Deaf Academics and Imposter Syndrome. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 481-496
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2021) Theorising the Deaf Body: Using Lefebvre and Bourdieu to Understand Deaf Spatial Experience. Cultural geographies.
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 and Crawley, Victoria (2020) Multilingual and multicultural supervision meetings: the case of a deaf supervisor and hearing postgraduate researcher. The Learner Development Journal, 4. pp. 6-19.
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2020) Let me tell you how frustrating this pandemic has been for deaf people. The Conversation.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Bourdieu, plurilingualism and sign languages in the UK	321	114
2	<O/ No Power but Deaf Power \O>: Revitalizing Deaf Education Systems via Anarchism	319	279
3	Deaf professionals’ perceptions of trust in relationships with signed/spoken language interpreters.	263	100
4	Innovations in deaf studies: critically mapping the field	245
5	Visual methods in deaf studies: using photography and filmmaking in research with deaf people	217	527
6	Transition planning for d/Deaf young people from mainstream schools: professionals’ views on the implementation of policy	216
7	Deaf-led Deaf Studies: using Kaupapa Maori principles to guide the development of deaf research practices	210
8	The Role of the Intellectual in Minority Group Studies: Reflections on Deaf Studies in Social and Political Contexts	205	312
9	Deaf academics in the university in the UK	191	2
10	Innovations in Deaf Studies: the role of deaf scholars	190