Laura Davy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Davy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Davy |
| SIGNATURE | DAVY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0240-3586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Researching Rupture
Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanities research can make visible the experiences of those living through socio‐ecological “rupture”. Yet, there are important ethical and design challenges to face regarding: (i) the temporal and spatial scope of research; (ii) how we work with affective r…
Designing inclusive publics
While disability policy initiatives worldwide increasingly promise to include people with disability in decision-making, research and public inquiries reveal ongoing disempowerment and a persistent lack of opportunities for their voices to be heard. This paper explores radical listening as a potentially transformative interpersonal approach to strengthen participatory democracy in the everyday spaces where people access essential services and int…
Caring Futures
Amid increasing public and policy attention on the care and support sector, which millions of Australians rely upon for essential services, care workers continue to advocate for better pay and fairer conditions. This article draws on the concepts of recognition, value and social distribution from feminist ethics of care scholarship to explore how public perceptions of pay, job security, and working conditions shape attitudes towards care work. It…
Infrastructures of support
Today's young people are critical stakeholders in the future of social care policy and services, but their voices and perspectives are often overlooked in public debate and deliberation on disability services, aged care, and support for family carers. This article reports on a pilot project involving focus groups with young people in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Participants included young people with caring roles for family membe…
Regulating vulnerability
This article analyses policy frameworks designed to protect people with disability from harm in service provision settings and respond to their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with a focus on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).The creation of a new disability services market has facilitated greater choice and empowerment for NDIS participants, but has also exposed them to new risks and vulnerabil…
Impact of organisational practices on the relationships between young people with disabilities and paid social support workers
This article uses Ikäheimo’s concept of institutionally mediated recognition to explore how organisational norms and rules facilitate and constrain interpersonal recognition between a young person with disabilities and their paid support worker. The experience of recognition is important because it reflects the quality of this relationship and shapes the identity of both people in the paid support relationship. To understand the relationships bet…
Understanding paid support relationships
The quality of paid relationships is key for effective support, yet little is known about how people receiving and providing support understand and experience the relationship. This paper reports on recent research that explored the role of relationships with paid support workers in strengthening the rights and wellbeing of young people with cognitive disability in Australia. The research used photo-rich participatory methods with 42 pairs of you…
Claiming rights
Claiming rights
Opportunities to enhance relational wellbeing through the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Interpersonal relationships are critically important to ensuring that people with disability can access the benefits of individual funding models such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The NDIS aims to enhance participants’ self‐determination of supports and social and economic participation, but the emerging evidence indicates that achieving these policy outcomes requires stronger recognition of participants’ relational context…
Between an Ethic of Care and an Ethic of Autonomy
In this article I review the contested terrain of relationality, dependency and care within contemporary disability studies and feminist care theory. I begin and end with short personal narratives centring on my relationship with my sister, who has an intellectual disability. These stories are my point of departure in exploring the article's central theme – that the agency and autonomy of individual persons only emerges relationally, through the …
Philosophical Inclusive Design
Drawing on the built environment concept of “inclusive design” and its emphasis on creating accessible environments for all persons regardless of ability, I suggest that a central task for feminist disability theory is to redesign foundational philosophical concepts to present opportunities rather than barriers to inclusion for people with disability. Accounts of autonomy within liberal philosophy stress self‐determination and the dignity of all …
Between an Ethic of Care and an Ethic of Autonomy
In this article I review the contested terrain of relationality, dependency and care within contemporary disability studies and feminist care theory. I begin and end with short personal narratives centring on my relationship with my sister, who has an intellectual disability. These stories are my point of departure in exploring the article's central theme – that the agency and autonomy of individual persons only emerges relationally, through the …
Philosophical Inclusive Design
Drawing on the built environment concept of “inclusive design” and its emphasis on creating accessible environments for all persons regardless of ability, I suggest that a central task for feminist disability theory is to redesign foundational philosophical concepts to present opportunities rather than barriers to inclusion for people with disability. Accounts of autonomy within liberal philosophy stress self‐determination and the dignity of all …
Opportunities to enhance relational wellbeing through the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Interpersonal relationships are critically important to ensuring that people with disability can access the benefits of individual funding models such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The NDIS aims to enhance participants’ self‐determination of supports and social and economic participation, but the emerging evidence indicates that achieving these policy outcomes requires stronger recognition of participants’ relational context…
Understanding paid support relationships
The quality of paid relationships is key for effective support, yet little is known about how people receiving and providing support understand and experience the relationship. This paper reports on recent research that explored the role of relationships with paid support workers in strengthening the rights and wellbeing of young people with cognitive disability in Australia. The research used photo-rich participatory methods with 42 pairs of you…
Claiming rights
Regulating vulnerability
This article analyses policy frameworks designed to protect people with disability from harm in service provision settings and respond to their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with a focus on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).The creation of a new disability services market has facilitated greater choice and empowerment for NDIS participants, but has also exposed them to new risks and vulnerabil…
Philosophical Inclusive Design
Drawing on the built environment concept of “inclusive design” and its emphasis on creating accessible environments for all persons regardless of ability, I suggest that a central task for feminist disability theory is to redesign foundational philosophical concepts to present opportunities rather than barriers to inclusion for people with disability. Accounts of autonomy within liberal philosophy stress self‐determination and the dignity of all …
Claiming rights
Claiming rights
Opportunities to enhance relational wellbeing through the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Interpersonal relationships are critically important to ensuring that people with disability can access the benefits of individual funding models such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The NDIS aims to enhance participants’ self‐determination of supports and social and economic participation, but the emerging evidence indicates that achieving these policy outcomes requires stronger recognition of participants’ relational context…
Between an Ethic of Care and an Ethic of Autonomy
In this article I review the contested terrain of relationality, dependency and care within contemporary disability studies and feminist care theory. I begin and end with short personal narratives centring on my relationship with my sister, who has an intellectual disability. These stories are my point of departure in exploring the article's central theme – that the agency and autonomy of individual persons only emerges relationally, through the …
Understanding paid support relationships
The quality of paid relationships is key for effective support, yet little is known about how people receiving and providing support understand and experience the relationship. This paper reports on recent research that explored the role of relationships with paid support workers in strengthening the rights and wellbeing of young people with cognitive disability in Australia. The research used photo-rich participatory methods with 42 pairs of you…
Impact of organisational practices on the relationships between young people with disabilities and paid social support workers
This article uses Ikäheimo’s concept of institutionally mediated recognition to explore how organisational norms and rules facilitate and constrain interpersonal recognition between a young person with disabilities and their paid support worker. The experience of recognition is important because it reflects the quality of this relationship and shapes the identity of both people in the paid support relationship. To understand the relationships bet…
Infrastructures of support
Today's young people are critical stakeholders in the future of social care policy and services, but their voices and perspectives are often overlooked in public debate and deliberation on disability services, aged care, and support for family carers. This article reports on a pilot project involving focus groups with young people in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Participants included young people with caring roles for family membe…
Regulating vulnerability
This article analyses policy frameworks designed to protect people with disability from harm in service provision settings and respond to their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with a focus on the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).The creation of a new disability services market has facilitated greater choice and empowerment for NDIS participants, but has also exposed them to new risks and vulnerabil…
Designing inclusive publics
While disability policy initiatives worldwide increasingly promise to include people with disability in decision-making, research and public inquiries reveal ongoing disempowerment and a persistent lack of opportunities for their voices to be heard. This paper explores radical listening as a potentially transformative interpersonal approach to strengthen participatory democracy in the everyday spaces where people access essential services and int…
Caring Futures
Amid increasing public and policy attention on the care and support sector, which millions of Australians rely upon for essential services, care workers continue to advocate for better pay and fairer conditions. This article draws on the concepts of recognition, value and social distribution from feminist ethics of care scholarship to explore how public perceptions of pay, job security, and working conditions shape attitudes towards care work. It…
Researching Rupture
Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanities research can make visible the experiences of those living through socio‐ecological “rupture”. Yet, there are important ethical and design challenges to face regarding: (i) the temporal and spatial scope of research; (ii) how we work with affective r…
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Autonomy (3 works)