Professor Kelley Johnson
Qualifications
PhD, MA, Dip Ed, BA
Role
Professor Disability Policy and Practice
Contact details
Direct line: 0117 331 0974
Email: kelley.johnson@bristol.ac.uk
Biography
Kelley is an Australian academic who has worked with people with learning disabilities for more than 15 years. Prior to her appointment at the University of Bristol, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the National Institute for Intellectual Disability at Trinity College in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. She was responsible for a national project which focused on the inclusion of people with learning disabilities in research about issues important to them in their lives.
Research interests
- Rights and Disability
- Deinstitutionalization
- Inclusion of people with learning disabilities in the community.
- Sexuality and relationships
- Social change
- Bullying and people with learning disabilities
- Inclusive research
- Life history
Current research projects
Kelley is currently working on a number of different research proposals including:
- Life histories of people with learning disabilities
- Sexuality and relationships and people with learning disabilities
Recent projects
No longer researching about us without us. A national project in the Republic of Ireland.
Teaching
- Graduate Research Methods.
- Masters in Inclusive Research and Practice
- Sexuality and relationships and people with learning disabilities.