Bruce O’brien

Biographic Data

ID3936671
NAMEBruce O’brien
GIVEN NAMESBruce
FAMILY NAMEO’brien
SIGNATUREO’BRIEN B
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • From Inclusive Research to Inclusive Evaluation: Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities to Shape the Services They Use

    Open AccessPatricia O’brien, Roy Mc Conkey et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2025

    This article explores how people with intellectual disabilities can be more involved in evaluating and regulating the services they use and the quality of their lives. Traditionally, these evaluations have been performed by professionals, but we argue that people with lived experience of intellectual disabilities bring unique insights and should be part of the process. The idea builds on ‘inclusive research’, where people with intellectual disabi…

  • A framework for disability lived expertise

    Open AccessShane Clifton, Emma Cooper et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2025References: 5

    This article introduces a framework for disability lived expertise, aiming to address the undervaluing of contributions from people with disability in crucial sectors such as policy, services, rehabilitation, education and research. It distinguishes between disability lived experience, which is the personal and individual experience of disability, and 'lived expertise', which builds on personal experience through critical reflection and engagemen…

  • Disability lived experience and expertise: Recognising the expert contributions of people with disability

    Open AccessShane Clifton, Emma Cooper et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2025References: 1

    While the inclusion of 'disability lived experience' is increasingly advocated for in research, policy and practice, its conceptualisation and application present significant challenges. This article, a collaborative effort by 16 individuals with diverse disabilities and expertise, critically examines the limitations inherent in the current usage. We argue that prevailing interpretations of 'lived experience' presume subjectivity and over-emphasi…

  • Law, Literature, and Social Regulation in Early Medieval England

    Bruce O’brien, Bruce R O’BrienARTICLESpeculum2024

  • Inclusive Research and Intellectual Disabilities: Moving Forward on a Road Less Well-Travelled

    Open AccessPatricia O’brien, Edurne Garcia Iriarte et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2022Cited by: 10References: 21

    In reflecting on the title of the special issue: Inclusive Research: A road less or more well-travelled, this paper reviews the strengths of inclusive research that have augmented the global knowledge about the lives of people with intellectual disabilities across the lifespan. The successes of inclusive research are outlined with the respective ongoing individual challenges discussed. Authors will draw upon their own experiences of inclusive res…

  • Being an Inclusive Researcher in a National Consultation Exercise-A Case Study

    Open AccessGreta Westermann, Erin Louise Whittle et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2022Cited by: 1References: 18

    This paper presents a case study of the Inclusive Research Network (IRN), an inclusive research group founded by the Centre for Disability Studies, contributing to a National Disability Research Agenda (NDRA) setting project. IRN members with ID carried out their own consultations with disability stakeholders. This paper sets out the experiences of the IRN members in facilitating focus groups as part of phase 2 of the NDRA project. As this projec…

  • Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066

    Open AccessLaura ca /21 Jh Ashe, Emily Joan ca /21 Jh Ward et al.BOOKConquests in Eleventh-Century…2020

    I can summarize my argument in a single image. Around 1110 a Canterbury scribe copied a charter onto the endleaves of an ancient Roman gospel book (Fig. 7.1). He recorded the name of the king, Henry I, and he interlined the styles and surnames of the witnesses in French fashion; but the anomalous feature is the script. Nearly sixty years after the Norman Conquest, in the reign of the third Norman king, a scribe at the heart of the Anglo-Norman es…