Email: L.A.Livesley@soton.ac.uk
I am a Postgraduate Research Student in Philosophy.
My doctoral research is on the philosophy of disability; namely, what ought we to think of disability as being?
My work is funded by an AHRC Studentship from the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.
My doctoral research asks what disability is and what it should be.
I defend a radical social constructionist account of disability, on which to be disabled is to be subordinated in virtue of being believed to have a defective body. This is set against both the traditional medical and social models of disability, as well as more moderate social constructionist views, and draws on contemporary ameliorative conceptual engineering strategies.
I have broader interests across social and political philosophy, including:
I teach on:
For up to date info on research & talks, please see my website.
I joined Southampton as a Postgraduate Research Student in 2021. Before that I worked in academic libraries in Oxford for several years.
I did my undergraduate work in philosophy at the University of Cambridge, then moved to the University of Sheffield for their MA in Political Theory.
I'm originally from Leeds, West Yorkshire.