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chrissie.rogers@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• PGCHE (postgraduate certificate in higher education): Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: the reflective academic, Keele University (2005-2007)
• PhD Sociology (ESRC), A sociology of parenting children identified with special educational needs: The private and public spaces parents inhabit, University of Essex (2000-2004)
• MA Sociology of Culture HIV and AIDS: Beyond the surface University of Essex (1995-1996)
• BA (Hons) 2.i Sociology University of Essex (1992 -1995)

• European Sociological Association (ESA) 2011-
• Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) 2011-
• British Sociological Association (BSA) also member of Autobiography BSA study Group. 2000-
• Nasen ('special educational needs' charity) 2000-

Courses

• Supervisor for current PhD candidates

Outline of Career

Chrissie Rogers is a Reader in Education and Director of Childhood and Youth Research Institute (CYRI). Her main interests are related to intellectual disability, SEN, 'inclusive' education, mothering, intimacy, feminist and disability theory and qualitative research methods.

Chrissie began her academic journey due to her own mothering experiences with an intellectually disabled daughter and her experience as a learning disability support worker. She completed her Sociology PhD (ESRC) at the University of Essex and her postdoctoral fellowship (ESRC) at Cambridge University. She has held lectureships at Keele University and Brunel University and is author of 'Parenting and Inclusive Education.

Chrissie has also published in Auto/Biography, British Journal of Sociology of Education, British Journal of Special Education, Disability and Society and Sexualities as well as practitioner magazines and papers.

Research Interests

Chrissie is, amongst other things, currently working across three areas:

• Her editorial work with Dr Susie Weller (South Bank University) is broadly around care and a feminist ethics of care. The book looks at care within education, communities, families and across the life course. This project including a number of scholars will be out in 2012 and is called 'Critical Approaches to Care: understanding caring relations, identities and cultures' by Routledge.
• Her research with Dr Tam Sanger - a project that involves young intellectually disabled young people and their relationship lives.
• Her second monograph - called Intellectual Disability and Social Theory: Philosophical and Sociological Debates on Being Human by Routledge, which is a look at what it means to ?be human? with regards to family and everyday life, relationships, rights, and education.

Selected Publications

Monographs/ Edited Books

Rogers, C. (2007) Parenting and Inclusive Education: discovering difference, experiencing difficulty Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal articles (peer reviewed)

Rogers, C. (2011) 'Mothering and intellectual disability: partnership rhetoric?' British Journal of Sociology of Education 32 (4) 563-581

Rogers, C. (2010) 'But it's not all about the sex: mothering, normalisation and young learning disabled people' Disability and Society 25 (1) 63-74

Rogers, C. (2009) (S) excerpts from a life told: Sex, gender and learning disability Sexualities 12 (3) 270-288

Rogers, C. (2009) 'Hope as a mechanism in emotional survival: documenting miscarriage' Auto/Biography Year Book 2009 Nottingham, Russell Press

Rogers, C. (2007) 'Experiencing an 'inclusive' education: Parents and their children with special educational needs (SEN)' British Journal of Sociology of Education 28 (1) 55-68

Rogers, C. (2007) ''Disabling' a family? Emotional dilemmas experienced in becoming a parent of a learning disabled child' in British Journal of Special Education 34 (3) 136-143.

Book chapters

Rogers, C. and Ludhra, G. (in press) 'Research ethics: participation, social difference and informed consent' in Bradford and Cullen (Eds.) Research Methods for Youth Work: an introduction London, Routledge

Richards, D., Watson, S.L., Monger, S., & Rogers, C. (in press). 'Human rights in sexuality and relationships'. In F. Owen, D. Griffiths, & S. Watson (Eds.), The human rights agenda for persons with intellectual disabilities. St. Catharine's, ON: The 3Rs Community University Research Alliance.

Lucey, H. and Rogers, C., (2007) 'Power and the unconscious in doctoral student-supervisor relationships', in, V, Gillies and H, Lucey (eds.) Power, Knowledge and the Academy: The Institutional Is Political Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan