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Maria King
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Call for Interest – Autism and LIS Literature Review

Hello,

Autistic researchers affiliated with the Neurodivergent Library and Information Staff Network (NLISN) in the UK and the Disability and Wellness Research Collaborative (DWRC) at Oklahoma State University would like to invite interested individuals to join a collaborative research team for a two-year, research project, entitled:

Perceptions and discourses of autism in Library and Information Science literature: a critical interpretive synthesis

Research question

To critically interpret and develop theory on how autism is discursively constructed within LIS literature.

Objectives

To critically interpret representations of autism and autistic individuals within the literature.

To critically interpret assumptions and norms about autism and autistic individuals within the literature.

To critically interpret autistic agency within the literature.

To critically interpret alignment of the literature to medical and social models of disability.

For full details please see the Call for Interest, Protocol, and if you are interested please complete the Call for Interest Form.

Many thanks,

Maria

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