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Dr Colin Cameron

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

My career has involved work with adults with learning difficulties and in the disabled people’s movement in community education, Disability Arts development, management, and training roles. My undergraduate responsibilities involve teaching sociology, philosophy and social policy to BA Guidance and Counselling/Integrated Health and Social Care students, and overseeing the delivery of Disability Studies modules taught by one of Northumbria University’s teaching partners in Singapore. At postgraduate level I supervise MSc social work dissertations, contribute to the MSc in Autism, and I am presently principal supervisor of one PhD student. In 2017 I was a co-investigator and co-author of The National Lottery-funded research report ‘Improving Understanding of Service User Involvement and Identity’ (Shaping Our Lives, 2017), and I am currently on the editorial team producing The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Education and Research, to be published in 2020. I am a board member of Disability Arts Online and Chair of Shaping Our Lives’ research committee. Outside work, I have been identified as the Whitley Bay Stuckist by Charles Thompson, the founder of the Stuckist art movement, and have exhibited paintings at Whitley Bay Film Festival and at The Exchange, North Shields. I am the singer in a band that performs raucous covers of obscure 1970s pop hits. 2019 will see the publication by The Iron Press of an epic poem I have written with an old school friend, begun in 1979 as a distraction technique during maths lessons. I am a disabled person.

Colin Cameron

Campus Address

B016, Coach Lane Campus
Northumbria University
Benton
NE7 7XA

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Conversations about activism and change: independent living movement Ireland and thirty years of disability rights, edited by Fitzgerald, S., 2022, Dublin: ILMI. RRP £11.99, Cameron, C. 27 May 2024, In: Disability and Society
  • I’m living my life as the person I’m meant to be, not in spite of the person I am, Cameron, C., Smith, L. 27 Sep 2024, In: Disability and Society
  • Lev Shestov's Angel of Death, Paul Brown and the Affirmation Model, Cameron, C. 4 Sep 2024, Disability Studies Conference (2024)
  • Mend the Gap: Collaborative Learning with Service Users (Module PP0554), Cameron, C., Lewins, K., Downs, N., Page, N., Gibbinson, E., Walker, L. 12 Jun 2024
  • Mend the Gap: Collaborative Learning with Service Users (Module PP0554), Cameron, C. 14 May 2024, Peer Support and Experiential Knowledge
  • Occupation and Disability: Alienation and Affirmation, Cameron, C. 8 Jul 2024, Life and Labour: contested occupation and meaningful alienation, Bristol, Bristol University Press
  • Some things never seem to change: further towards an affirmation model, Cameron, C. 8 Aug 2024, In: Disability and Society
  • Sometimes I Just wish it was all over, Cameron, C. 7 Feb 2024, In: Disability & Society
  • The Affirmation Model: A Basis for Subversion, Transgression and Audacity, Cameron, C. 12 Jun 2024
  • The Affirmation Model as a Subversive Narrative, Cameron, C. 12 Jun 2024

  • Ann MacFadyen ‘Am I doing it right?’ Exploring the practice of supervising Master’s dissertation students Start Date: 27/09/2011 End Date: 30/03/2017
  • Ann MacFadyen ‘Am I doing it right?’ Exploring the practice of supervising Master’s dissertation students Start Date: 27/09/2011 End Date: 30/03/2017
  • Louise Lingwood The experiences of health care among Deaf people. Start Date: 13/02/2019
  • Ebba Marie Anderson Exploring the Impact of Social Constructs of Disability on the Mental Health of Autistic People and People with Learning Disabilities Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 05/10/2023

  • PhD September 01 2006
  • History of Ideas MA (Hons) June 30 1994


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