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Exploring the potential of disabled comedians in improving the lives and experiences of disabled people

Funder: Sir Halley Stewart Trust
Duration: May 2012 - October 2013

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Dr Sharon Lockyer Dr Sharon Lockyer
Associate Dean – Equality & Diversity (Students) / Reader - Sociology & Communications
(Principal investigator)
T: +44 (0)1895 267373
E: sharon.lockyer@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 267373 sharon.lockyer@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 218

Outputs

Lockyer, S. (2015) 'From Comedy Targets to Comedy-Makers: Disability and Comedy in Live Performance'. Disability and Society, 30 (9). pp. 1397 - 1412. ISSN: 0968-7599 Open Access Link

Journal article

Lockyer, S. (2015) '‘It’s Really Scared of Disability’: Disabled Comedians’ Perspectives of the British Television Comedy Industry'. The Journal of Popular Television, 3 (2). pp. 179 - 193. ISSN: 2046-9861 Open Access Link

Journal article