Dr David Ben Shannon
PhD, MA, PGCE, BA (hons)
School of Education
Lecturer in Education


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School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
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S10 2AH
- Profile
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I am an interdisciplinary scholar, whose research intersects with critical disability studies, early childhood education, cultural studies, and art. With a background in primary special education, my research explores how neurodiversity unfolds in early childhood education through an attention to affect, place, early literacy and language, and the more-than-human. Methodologically, I experiment with sensory ethnography, sound, research-creation, and digital ethnography. I am also a sound artist and composer, and one-half of glitch-folk, electronica duo Oblique Curiosities.
My recent work has been published in Qualitative Inquiry, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
- Research interests
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affect; autism; neurodiversity; queer studies; early childhood education; literacy; language; sensory ethnography; arts-based methods; research-creation; research mobilities; posthuman and socio-material theories of learning.
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
Reports
- Teaching interests
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disability studies in education; inclusive education; literacy; digital literacy; research methods; queer studies in education