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Tom Shakespeare

Newcastle upon Tyne
As seen in: BBC, Color Research & Application, Nature, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Daily Express, Newsweek, MDPI, SAGE Publishing and
Disability, bioethics, culture, cheese, crumpets, general pondering. Chair of Light for the World. Author ofThe Ha-ha: farragobooks.com/book/the-ha-ha/
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Changing the Story on Disability?

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By Fredrick Ouko, Liz Sayce, Kate Stanley, Tom Shakespeare
| LSE Connect Verified
We hear from those who are striving to shift narratives around disability through public awareness campaigns globally and will explore whether and how an empirical approach to ‘framing’ could effectively move public perceptions and behaviours. We hear from those who are striving to shift narratives around disability through public awareness campaigns globally and will explore whether and how an empirical approach to ‘framing’ could effectively move public perceptions and behaviours.
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Views on the upcoming Lancet Commission on disability and health - Authors' reply

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By Hannah Kuper, Tom Shakespeare
| The Lancet Verified
Chairing a Lancet Commission is a daunting challenge.1 Our task is particularly great as we are leading the first Commission focused on disability, and it should encompass the experience of 1·3 billion people with disabilities globally.2 We will need to present the overall health inequalities experienced by people with disabilities, the solutions required to reduce those gaps, the economic case for addressing this inequity, and consider why the topic is not yet a global priority.
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Children with disabilities are missing from global efforts to address violence

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By Emily Eldred, Alexandra Blackwell, Tom Shakespeare, Hannah Kuper
| The Lancet Verified
Get full text access Log in, subscribe or purchase for full access. References 1. WHO, UNICEF Pledge platform. World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund 2. UNICEF Seen, counted, included: using data to shed light on the well-being of children with disabilities United Nations Children's Fund, 2021 3. Fang, Z ∙ Cerna-Turoff, I ∙ Zhang, C ∙ et al. Global estimates of violence against children with disabilities: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis Lancet Child Adolesc Health.
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