Colin Cameron
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Cameron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Cameron |
| SIGNATURE | CAMERON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7067-0956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Podcasting as Storycrafting and Translational Health Communication Scholarship
Defining Moments is a podcast that extends the reach of articles published in Health Communication into public acoustic realms. In this essay, we locate Defining Moments in the broader realm of podcasting and highlight its inception, production, distribution, and impact through available data analytics. We approach podcasting as a relational experience in which meaning-making extends beyond any audio text to include reactions, interactions, and a…
Medicalization of Neurodivergence and the Embodied Experience of ADHD
Medicalization shapes, and in some cases legitimizes, individuals' embodied experiences even as it molds the landscape of healthcare and treatment. In this essay I provide a layered account that moves between my experiences as a neurodivergent person and academic theorizing to explore how processes of medicalization inform public discourses and personal sensemaking. In the case of ADHD, medicalization has contributed to societal narratives that f…
Conversations about activism and change: Independent living movement Ireland and thirty years of disability rights
I’m living my life as the person I’m meant to be, not in spite of the person I am
Some things never seem to change: Further towards an affirmation model
In this article I consider the regurgitation of sadcrip/supercrip stereotypes in current television charity advertisements.I suggest that, as part of a discourse identifying impairment as tragedy, these have an insidious impact not just on the way wider society regards disabled people, but on the way disabled people are able to regard themselves.I discuss the affirmation model, an idea grounded in the notion of Disability Pride and in disabled pe…
Sometimes I just wish it was all over
In this article I reflect upon having recently been invited to join a new departmental group being set up to talk about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; at the same time having been told to remember that my perspective is just one among equally valid others. I reflect upon what Drake (1999) has described as the 'fundamentally opposed' natures of the medical and social models, and upon the absurdity involved in a requirement to give assent to bo…
Service User Involvement and Covid-19—An Afterthought
We are researchers and activists working in the field of service user involvement for many years in the UK and internationally who are concerned that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, years of progress in service user involvement have been unravelled by service users being left on the outside of key decisions and matters affecting their lives. Instead, we argue, they have become an afterthought. As authors, we combine both academic and service user …
Disability, normality and absurdity: A reflection on stuckist disability art
In this article, I take issue with the idea that impairment and disability (which are not the same) can only be experienced negatively and as ‘useless difference’ (Michalko, 2002). Reflecting on two of my paintings, currently on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, particularly in terms of their absurdity, I suggest that the perspective and insight expressed in these is directly related to my experience as a disabled person. …
Improving understanding of service-user involvement and identity: Collaborative research traversing disability, activism and the academy
This article focuses on collaborative research traversing disability, activism and the academy to improve understanding of service-user involvement and identity. The project was undertaken by an organisation of disabled people, some of whom are, and some of whom are not, employed by academic institutions. It is an example of research fusion between disabled people’s activism and their work within the academy. The project aimed to identify meaning…
An electrophysiological investigation of attentional bias in a PTSD population
The present study provided no support for facilitated engagement in this sample of patients. Possible interpretations of the results related to differential processing of target probes replacing angry-neutral face pairs are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
Kerosene subsidies for household lighting in India: What are the impacts
Kerosene subsidy reform is a key policy concern in India and other developing countries. As kerosene is widely used for lighting in India, any price change will likely have considerable public welfare impacts on the large fraction of the poor who do not have access to reliable electricity supply for lighting. In this study, we assess historic kerosene use for residential lighting across population groups separated by urban/rural, expenditure, and…
Charity
Disability Studies: A Student's Guide
The disability studies reader: Fourth edition
At 600 pages The Disability Studies Reader is an impressive volume. Its range and scope allows the reader to explore vast territories of themes, perspectives and insights. The book opens with an es
Tragic but brave or just crips with chips? Songs and their lyrics in the Disability Arts Movement in Britain
Disability culture is a site within which social and positional identities are struggled for and dominant discourses rejected; in which mainstream representations of people with impairments - as victims of personal tragedy - are held to the light and revealed as hegemonic constructions within a disabling society. Drawing upon styles that range from jazz, blues and folk to reggae, performance poetry and punk, disabled singers and bands in the Disa…
The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation
Effects of Alcohol on Choice Reaction Time
Alcohol at blood alcohol levels up to 0.055% had no significant effect on choice reaction time and information processing. Tasks which test accuracy are more likely to be affected by alcohol than tasks which involve information processing
Tragic but brave or just crips with chips? Songs and their lyrics in the Disability Arts Movement in Britain
Disability culture is a site within which social and positional identities are struggled for and dominant discourses rejected; in which mainstream representations of people with impairments - as victims of personal tragedy - are held to the light and revealed as hegemonic constructions within a disabling society. Drawing upon styles that range from jazz, blues and folk to reggae, performance poetry and punk, disabled singers and bands in the Disa…
Improving understanding of service-user involvement and identity: Collaborative research traversing disability, activism and the academy
This article focuses on collaborative research traversing disability, activism and the academy to improve understanding of service-user involvement and identity. The project was undertaken by an organisation of disabled people, some of whom are, and some of whom are not, employed by academic institutions. It is an example of research fusion between disabled people’s activism and their work within the academy. The project aimed to identify meaning…
Some things never seem to change: Further towards an affirmation model
In this article I consider the regurgitation of sadcrip/supercrip stereotypes in current television charity advertisements.I suggest that, as part of a discourse identifying impairment as tragedy, these have an insidious impact not just on the way wider society regards disabled people, but on the way disabled people are able to regard themselves.I discuss the affirmation model, an idea grounded in the notion of Disability Pride and in disabled pe…
Service User Involvement and Covid-19—An Afterthought
We are researchers and activists working in the field of service user involvement for many years in the UK and internationally who are concerned that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, years of progress in service user involvement have been unravelled by service users being left on the outside of key decisions and matters affecting their lives. Instead, we argue, they have become an afterthought. As authors, we combine both academic and service user …
I’m living my life as the person I’m meant to be, not in spite of the person I am
Sometimes I just wish it was all over
In this article I reflect upon having recently been invited to join a new departmental group being set up to talk about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; at the same time having been told to remember that my perspective is just one among equally valid others. I reflect upon what Drake (1999) has described as the 'fundamentally opposed' natures of the medical and social models, and upon the absurdity involved in a requirement to give assent to bo…
The disability studies reader: Fourth edition
At 600 pages The Disability Studies Reader is an impressive volume. Its range and scope allows the reader to explore vast territories of themes, perspectives and insights. The book opens with an es
Effects of Alcohol on Choice Reaction Time
Alcohol at blood alcohol levels up to 0.055% had no significant effect on choice reaction time and information processing. Tasks which test accuracy are more likely to be affected by alcohol than tasks which involve information processing
The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation
Tragic but brave or just crips with chips? Songs and their lyrics in the Disability Arts Movement in Britain
Disability culture is a site within which social and positional identities are struggled for and dominant discourses rejected; in which mainstream representations of people with impairments - as victims of personal tragedy - are held to the light and revealed as hegemonic constructions within a disabling society. Drawing upon styles that range from jazz, blues and folk to reggae, performance poetry and punk, disabled singers and bands in the Disa…
The disability studies reader: Fourth edition
At 600 pages The Disability Studies Reader is an impressive volume. Its range and scope allows the reader to explore vast territories of themes, perspectives and insights. The book opens with an es
Charity
Disability Studies: A Student's Guide
Kerosene subsidies for household lighting in India: What are the impacts
Kerosene subsidy reform is a key policy concern in India and other developing countries. As kerosene is widely used for lighting in India, any price change will likely have considerable public welfare impacts on the large fraction of the poor who do not have access to reliable electricity supply for lighting. In this study, we assess historic kerosene use for residential lighting across population groups separated by urban/rural, expenditure, and…
An electrophysiological investigation of attentional bias in a PTSD population
The present study provided no support for facilitated engagement in this sample of patients. Possible interpretations of the results related to differential processing of target probes replacing angry-neutral face pairs are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
Improving understanding of service-user involvement and identity: Collaborative research traversing disability, activism and the academy
This article focuses on collaborative research traversing disability, activism and the academy to improve understanding of service-user involvement and identity. The project was undertaken by an organisation of disabled people, some of whom are, and some of whom are not, employed by academic institutions. It is an example of research fusion between disabled people’s activism and their work within the academy. The project aimed to identify meaning…
Disability, normality and absurdity: A reflection on stuckist disability art
In this article, I take issue with the idea that impairment and disability (which are not the same) can only be experienced negatively and as ‘useless difference’ (Michalko, 2002). Reflecting on two of my paintings, currently on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, particularly in terms of their absurdity, I suggest that the perspective and insight expressed in these is directly related to my experience as a disabled person. …
Service User Involvement and Covid-19—An Afterthought
We are researchers and activists working in the field of service user involvement for many years in the UK and internationally who are concerned that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, years of progress in service user involvement have been unravelled by service users being left on the outside of key decisions and matters affecting their lives. Instead, we argue, they have become an afterthought. As authors, we combine both academic and service user …
Some things never seem to change: Further towards an affirmation model
In this article I consider the regurgitation of sadcrip/supercrip stereotypes in current television charity advertisements.I suggest that, as part of a discourse identifying impairment as tragedy, these have an insidious impact not just on the way wider society regards disabled people, but on the way disabled people are able to regard themselves.I discuss the affirmation model, an idea grounded in the notion of Disability Pride and in disabled pe…
Sometimes I just wish it was all over
In this article I reflect upon having recently been invited to join a new departmental group being set up to talk about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; at the same time having been told to remember that my perspective is just one among equally valid others. I reflect upon what Drake (1999) has described as the 'fundamentally opposed' natures of the medical and social models, and upon the absurdity involved in a requirement to give assent to bo…
Podcasting as Storycrafting and Translational Health Communication Scholarship
Defining Moments is a podcast that extends the reach of articles published in Health Communication into public acoustic realms. In this essay, we locate Defining Moments in the broader realm of podcasting and highlight its inception, production, distribution, and impact through available data analytics. We approach podcasting as a relational experience in which meaning-making extends beyond any audio text to include reactions, interactions, and a…
Medicalization of Neurodivergence and the Embodied Experience of ADHD
Medicalization shapes, and in some cases legitimizes, individuals' embodied experiences even as it molds the landscape of healthcare and treatment. In this essay I provide a layered account that moves between my experiences as a neurodivergent person and academic theorizing to explore how processes of medicalization inform public discourses and personal sensemaking. In the case of ADHD, medicalization has contributed to societal narratives that f…
Conversations about activism and change: Independent living movement Ireland and thirty years of disability rights
I’m living my life as the person I’m meant to be, not in spite of the person I am
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)