Dr Jill Pluquailec PhD, MA, BA (Hons), FHEA, PGCTLHE
Senior Lecturer in Autism
Summary
My teaching and research is concerned with social justice for disabled children and families with a particular interest in the ways bodies and spaces in education are both produced and reproduced within matrices of power and surveillance.
About
My teaching and research is concerned with social justice for disabled children and families with a particular interest in the ways bodies and spaces in education are both produced and reproduced within matrices of power and surveillance. My work sits within Critical Disability Studies, Disabled Children's Childhood Studies, and Critical Autism Studies centring on destabilising dominant knowledges in relation to what it means to be, and be understood, as marginalised. I have a specific commitment to social justice and ethics for groups that have been historically excluded or oppressed in both research design and practice.
I welcome requests for external examination of doctorates in the areas of Critical Autism Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Disabled Children's Childhood Studies, SEND and inclusive education.
Teaching
Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Autism
Education
Childhood
MA Autism Spectrum
MA Education
BA Education Studies
BA Education
Psychology and Counselling
BA Childhood Studies/Early Childhood Studies
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Principal Investigator (2022): 'Right to Review' project about parent responses to the UK Government SEND Review.
Funded by the Sheffield Institute of Policy Studies Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Innovation Beacon Areas allocation.
Principal Investigator: 'The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young autistic people's educational experiences' funded by SHU Creating Knowledge 2020
Co-investigator: 'Beers, Burgers + Bleach: Hygiene, toilets, and hospitality in the time of COVID-19' More information available: https://wcceh.org/themes/transforming-relations/beers-burgers-bleach-hygiene-toilets-and-hospitality-in-the-time-of-covid-19
Co-Investigator AHRC Connected Communities project 'Arts, Architecture, Activism & Access: Taking Around the Toilet to New Spaces' More information available: https://aroundthetoilet.com/
What does it mean to be disabled and growing older? August 2018
Publications
Journal articles
Jones, C., White, L., Slater, J., & Pluquailec, J. (2023). . Sociology, 58 (2), 471-488.
Pluquailec, J., & O'Connor, G. (2023). . Journal of Disability Studies in Education.
Pluquailec, J. (2018). . Emotion, Space and Society.
Smith, J.C. (2016). . Disability and Society, 31 (2), 180-191.
Book chapters
Pluquailec, J. (2022). The Ethics of Advocacy and Consent. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 103-121). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Theorising Dis/orientation. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 51-71). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Contextualising the Terrains. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 1-19). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Introducing a Theoretical Travel Guide. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 21-49). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Talking: The Rhizomes of Everyday Autism. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 123-152). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Being with/in Bodies. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 153-189). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2022). An Auto/ethnographic Story of Working Through Method/ology. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 73-101). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Becoming: Towards a Critical Analysis of Autism, Childhood and Dis/ability. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 191-219). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Take-home Messages from a Dis/orientated Terrain. In Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. (pp. 221-243). Springer International Publishing:
Pluquailec, J. (2018). Thinking and Doing Consent and Advocacy in Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. In Runswick-Cole, K., Curran, T., & Liddiard, K. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies. (pp. 213-228). Springer:
Books
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability. Springer International Publishing.
Pluquailec, J. (2022). Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability: Developing Social Theory for Disabled Childhoods.
Reports
Pluquailec, J., O'Connor, G., & Sadler, E. (2023). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Institute of Education.
Jones, C., White, L., Slater, J., & Pluquailec, J. (2022). . Exeter University.
Pluquailec, J., & O'Connor, G. (2022). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Pluquailec, J. (2018). . Sheffield Institute of Education, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Theses / Dissertations
Dewis, P. (2024). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Pluquailec, J., & Reidy, L.
Dewis, P. (2024). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Pluquailec, J., & Reidy, L.
Internet Publications
Pluquailec, J. (2025). . [blog post].
Pluquailec, J., & O'Connor, G. (2023). .
Pluquailec, J., & O'Connor, G. (2022). Lessons from the pandemic: autistic young people can thrive with a more flexible and autonomous education system.
Artefacts
Pluquailec, J. (2024). If Walls Could Talk.
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Presentations
Pluquailec, J., & Bailey, C. (2024). Against Neoliberal Neurodiversity: towards Relational Neurodiversity as a Social Justice Project. Presented at: Leeds Disability Studies Conference
Pluquailec, J., & Bailey, C. (2024). Ruling Passions for Social Justice vs. Special Interest for Social Mobility: Critiquing Capitalist Assumptions for Neurodiversity in Educational Discourses. Presented at: Desiring Autism and Neurodivergence Symposium, Ontario, Canada
Pluquailec, J., & Slater, J. (2024). Who’s Allowed In? Hospitality Workers as Gatekeepers of Public Toilet Access. Presented at: BSA Annual Conference 2024 Crisis, Continuity and Change
Pluquailec, J., & Slater, J. (2023). ‘If the toilets are clean in here, I will be ok’: Hospitality, health and bodies at work during Covid. Presented at: Work, Employment and Society Conference
Pluquailec, J. (2023). What have rights got to do with it? The continued erosion of inclusive education in UK policy. Presented at: Alter 2023: European Society for Disability Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Paris, France
Pluquailec, J., & Slater, J. (2023). 'Letting them over that threshold creates more aggro': Hospitality Workers as Gatekeepers of Public Toilet Access. Presented at: Liveable Cities, New York, USA
Other activities
Invited: ESRC Seminar Series: Shaping Autism Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Edinburgh, June 2015, ‘Autism and Play: a challenge to challenging behaviour’
Invited: Exploring Play, University of Sheffield, October 2014,‘Play and Disability: what disability can offer our understanding of play’
Critical Autism Studies Conference, London Southbank University
June 2017
'Challenging 'challenging behaviour' and how it sticks to autistic children's bodies in school spaces'
International Conference on Critical Education, Middlesex University, August 2016, 'Inhabiting Risky Spaces of the Dis/Child: The Un/Desirability of the Disabled Schoolchild' Abstract available:
Children and Childhoods International Conference 2015, University Campus Suffolk, July 2015, ‘Imagining otherwise for/of autism, childhood, and dis/ability'
Discourse, Power, Resistance 2015, Goldsmiths, London, April 2015, ‘Bad habits’? How disabled children’s bodies challenge inclusive practitioners' Abstract available:
Invited: Exploring Play, University of Sheffield, October 2014, ‘Play and Disability: what disability can offer our understanding of play’