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Dr Dr. Daniel P. Jones

Bridging Fellow

Affiliations
Affiliation
Bridging Fellow in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Bridging Fellow in the Institute for Medical Humanities

Biography

I am a Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities and a creative practitioner working across the visual and performing arts. My research sits at the intersectional of Tourette Syndrome (tourettic studies), critical disability studies, critical neurodiversity studies, and creative and inclusive research methodologies. I am particularly interested in how embodied experience shape space, interaction, and knowledge production. 

I completed my ESRC-funded PhD in Human Geography at Newcastle University, where my research examined the geographies of impulse through the lens of Tourette Syndrome. Prior to this, I earned an MA in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway University of London. 

Before taking up my current fellowship, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Wellcome-funded Anti-Ableist Research Cultures project at the University of Sheffield. In that role, I led the 'development' work package, designing guidance for inclusive event facilitation and creating a training programme on inclusive and anti-ableist research methods for early career researchers. 

My current work focuses on the deveopment of the new field of 'tourettic studies', which aims to bring the medical, social, arts, and humanities together to consider more-than-syndrome in Tourette Syndrome research. I am interested in tourettic cultures, aesthetics and politics and have been using performance art to explore how these might benefit Tourette Syndrome scholarship and discourse moving forward. 

Esteem Indicators

  • 2023 - 2024: Genius Within Award for Best Neurodiversity Research (Runner Up):

Publications

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