Dr Abigail Croydon MA, MSC, PhD

Biography

Dr Croydon is a Mildred Blaxter Post Doctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Health and Illness. She will be examining work by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities acting as experts by experience in social care. The aim is to understand the impact of policy to employ experts by experience on the people employed and within social care.

Dr Croydon’s research interests are in autism and intellectual disability, especially in social learning, social participation and social care policy. Broadly, she is interested in what people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are able to do and be in society – their capabilities as conceived in the capabilities approach to human development. Dr Croydon’s PhD used video supported qualitative methods to explore the impact of work on the capabilities of young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.