Publications

Samples of Our Work

Croft, E., Olsen, J., and Blackmore, T. (2025). ‘Disabled people’s employment in the UK: A thematic review of the literature’(forthcoming), UK Cabinet Office

Olsen, J. (2025). ‘Findings of the 2021 to 2022 Disability Workforce Reporting consultation’, UK Cabinet Office

Olsen, J. (2024). The UK Government’s Creation of the Personal Tragedy Model of Disability, Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS)

Olsen, J. (2024). ‘When will we decolonise the positions disabled people should hold?’, Disability and Society

Olsen, J. (2023). Dominant Narratives of Disability in the United Kingdom, Report for DDPOs

Olsen, J. (2022). Employers: influencing disabled people’s employment through responses to reasonable adjustments, Disability and Society

Olsen, J., Pilson, A. (2022). Developing Understandings of Disability through a Constructivist Paradigm: Identifying, Overcoming (and Embedding) Crip-Dissonance, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 

Olsen J., Rohan A., Soorenian A., and Verlot M. (2021). UK Disability Survey Research Report, UK Cabinet Office  

Olsen, J., and Soorenian A. (2021). Exploring the everyday lives of disabled people, UK Cabinet Office  

Olsen, J., and Soorenian A. (2021). The lived experience of disabled people during the COVID-19 pandemic, UK Cabinet Office  

Olsen, J., Griffiths, M., Soorenian, A., and Porter, R. (2020). Reporting from the Margins: Disabled Academics Reflections on Higher Education, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 

Olsen, J.  (2019). The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) as a Tool for Facilitating Pan-Disability Focus Groups and as a New Method for Quantifying Changes in Qualitative Data, International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Olsen J. (2019) Book Review: Culture–theory–disability: encounters between disability studies and cultural studies,  Disability and Society

Olsen J. (2018). Employment in Northern Ireland’s Civil Service: social barriers and hyperbole mean disabled need not applyInternational Journal of Disability Management 

Olsen, J. (2018). Socially disabled: the fight disabled people face against loneliness and stress, Disability and Society 


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