Dr Dai O'Brien

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Name:

Dr Dai O'Brien

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

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.
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2020) Negotiating Academic Environments: Using Lefebvre to Conceptualize Deaf Spaces and Disabling/Enabling Environments. Journal of Cultural Geography, 37 (1). pp. 26-45.
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2020) Mapping Deaf Academic Spaces. Higher Education.
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2021) Bourdieu, plurilingualism and sign languages in the UK. In: Snoddon, Kristin and Weber, Joanne, (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education. Multilingual Matters
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568, Stead, Lisa and Nourse, N. (2019) Bristol Deaf Memories: archives, nostalgia and the loss of community space in the deaf community in Bristol. Social and Cultural Geography, 20 (7). pp. 899-917.
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2017) Auto-driven photo-elicitation interviews with young deaf people. In: Boucher, Michael, (ed.) Participant empowerment through photo-elicitation in ethnographic education research: New perspectives and approaches. Springer, pp. 47-70
O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 and Kusters, Annelies (2017) Visual methods in deaf studies: using photography and filmmaking in research with deaf people. In: Kuster, Annalies, De Meulder, Maartje and O'Brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568, (eds.) Innovations in deaf studies: the role of deaf scholars. Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 265-296

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Transition planning for d/Deaf young people from mainstream schools: professionals’ views on the implementation of policy	175
2	Innovations in deaf studies: critically mapping the field	162
3	Visual methods in deaf studies: using photography and filmmaking in research with deaf people	136	277
4	Deaf-led Deaf Studies: using Kaupapa Maori principles to guide the development of deaf research practices	136
5	Auto-driven photo-elicitation interviews with young deaf people	133
6	The Role of the Intellectual in Minority Group Studies: Reflections on Deaf Studies in Social and Political Contexts	125	219
7	Bourdieu, plurilingualism and sign languages in the UK	124	1
8	Bristol Deaf Memories: archives, nostalgia and the loss of community space in the deaf community in Bristol	116	130
9	Innovations in Deaf Studies: the role of deaf scholars	110
10	Mapping Deaf Academic Spaces	84	65