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Dr. Owen Barden

Assistant Professor (Education)
      
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Dr. Owen Barden

Assistant Professor (Education)

 bardeno@tcd.ie

 


Owen is Assistant Professor in Intellectual Disability and Inclusion at the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) within the School of Education at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He is the Course Co-ordinator for the highly innovative Level 5 Certificate in Arts, Science and Inclusive Applied Practice offered by TCPID. Owen joined TCPID in October 2024 after twelve years at the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. During that time he taught on a range of undergraduate and Masters programmes relating to disability studies in education and special educational needs. He was also Programme Director for the Professional Doctorate programme, which comprised awards in Education, Social Work, and Health & Social Care. Owen holds a Doctorate in Education awarded by the University of Sheffield in 2011, and this thesis project explored relationships between dyslexia, technology, literacies and learning. His most recent work has focussed on cultural histories of learning disability, and devising innovative and participatory methods for researching those histories. Current and future projects are building on this work through developing partnerships with academic researchers and advocacy groups in places like the Open University and the University of Iceland.
  archival research   Disability Inclusion   Education research   Inclusive Education   Inclusive pedagogy for adults with intellectual disabilities   Inclusive research   Learning disabilities   LEARNING DISABILITY   Literacy   Participatory Research Methods   philosophy of education   Qualitative research methods   Research Methods
Project Title
 Learning with Learning Disability
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Summary
In press, with publication due July 2025, this book will make a contribution to the Autocritical Disability Studies series published by Routledge. The book aims to use the concept of "learning disability" to explore what it means to be human. Draws on evidence from disability studies, educational, moral and disability philosophy, cognitive psychology and the medical humanities to show how our understanding of what it means to be human is heavily dependent on our conceptualisations of intellectual disability.
Project Type
Monograph
Project Title
 Inside the History of Learning Difficulties
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Summary
a two-year participatory learning disability history project, unique in combining conventional archival research techniques with participatory methods with learning-disabled researchers
Funding Agency
British Academy / JISC
Programme
Digital Research in the Humanities

Details Date From Date To
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2013
Owen Barden, Learning with Learning Disability: what learning disability can teach us about being human, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2025, 1-166pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Disability and Inclusion in, editor(s)Louis Tay and Beth McCuskey , The Oxford Handbook on Well-being in Higher Education, OUP, 2025, [Sarah Arduin], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Creating Inclusive University Experiences: A Bio-Ecological Perspective in, editor(s)C. Rogers-Shaw, T. Williams Park, K. Mohney, & K. Sheward , Fostering a Community of Success for Neurodivergent Collegiate Students, Hershey, PA, IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2025, pp151 - 186, [Aoife Mary Lynam, Conor McGuckin, Jennifer M. Banks, Marie Devitt, Michael Shevlin, Des Aston, Barbara Ringwood, Emer Murphy, Sadbh Feehan, Owen Barden, Vivian Rath, John Kubiak, Angela Mazzocco, Jill Woodnutt], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Cultural Histories of Disability, Bennett, G., Goodall, E., Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability., Cham, SUI, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, [Owen Barden], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Owen Barden, Rhiannon Currie, Ian Davies, Helena Gunnarsdóttir, Jónína Hjartardóttir, Nathaniel Lawford, Jonathon Lyons, Sólveig Ólafsdóttir, Emily Oldnall, Sarah Oldnall, Guðrún Stefánsdóttir, Amber Tahir, Samantha Taylor, Liz Tilley, Katrín Tryggvadóttir, Steven J. Walden, Heather Watts , Clare Wright and Christine Wright, Emotionally entwined narratives: a polyphonic trialogue on learning disability history research, Frontiers in Sociology, 2025, pdoi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1401521 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Owen Barden, Steven J. Walden, Davey Bennett, Nicole Bird, Stella Cairns, Rhiannon Currie, Lynne Evans, Stephen Jackson, Emily Oldnall, Sarah Oldnall, Dawn Price, Tricia Robinson, Amber Tahir, Samantha Taylor, Christine Wright, Claire Wright, Antonia's story: Bringing the past into the future, British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
The Metanarrative of Learning Disability in, editor(s)Bolt, David , Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2021, pp77 - 93, [Barden, Owen & Walden, Stephen J.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Owen Barden, Getting inside histories of learning disabilities, Educational Action Research, 29, (4), 2021, p619--635 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
A Cultural History of Learning Difficulties in the Modern Age in, editor(s)snyder, Sharon L. & Mitchell, David T. , A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age., London, 2020, pp111 - 132, [Barden, Owen], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Owen Barden, Demanding Money with Menaces, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 14, (1), 2020, p91--108 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Down Syndrome Ireland, Inclusion Ireland, Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities, WALK, A Joint Submission to the National Consultation on Post-Primary Guidance, The Consortium & National Consultation on Guidance, April, 2025, Notes: [The Department of Education wish to invite all stakeholders to participate in this consultation on post-primary guidance. This consultation will inform policy development on whole-school guidance, including the role of the guidance counsellor, in the short and medium term. This research will look at all aspects of whole-school guidance, including the role of the guidance counsellor. In particular, we welcome stakeholder perspectives on: the effectiveness of the guidance-allocation model in post-primary schools the proposed new guidelinesdocument on whole-school guidance], Report, PUBLISHED
Owen Barden, Review of Learning Disability and Everyday Life by Alex Cockain, Review of Learning Disability and Everyday Life, by Alex Cockain , Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 14, (1), 2025, p238"242 , Review, PUBLISHED
Changing social attitudes toward disability: perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies. in, editor(s)Bolt, D. , Dysrationalia: an institutional learning disability?, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2014, pp142 - 154, [Barden, O], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
McCoy, Selina; Smyth, Emer, Learning to Succeed, 2011, -, Notes: [Irish Examiner, 8 March 2011], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Liverpool University Press Reviewer of the Year 2024