Hi! My name is Chris. I am a senior Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University. My research work has often focused on lived experience and literacies. My previous work includes an ethnographic study of a group of children playing the videogame Minecraft in an after school club, which I partially wrote about using comics.
I was diagnosed autistic and, soon after, ADHD as an adult. The former was not a surprise, but the latter was largely unexpected. I am not entirely comfortable drawing attention to myself, but I have benefitted from hearing the accounts of other people’s lives, so talking and writing about being neurodivergent will hopefully make a small contribution to changing perceptions. My motivation for this project comes from wanting to illuminate a misunderstood and underresearched aspect of autistic experience.
My current ‘ruling passions’ include black and white 35mm film photography and music by the band ‘Have a Nice Life’.
I have written the following academic outputs realting to autism / neurodiversity. If you want to read them and cannot access them for yourself then don’t hesitate to drop me an email (c.bailey@shu.ac.uk)
Bailey, C. (2022) ‘Connected to the soul’: Considering autoethnography, neurodiversity and literacies in times of ongoing change in Eds. Burnett, C. Bailey, C. Lee, C and Rowsell, J. Unsettling Literacies: Directions for literacy research in precarious times. Springer. Preprint available here: https://drchrisjbailey.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/preprint-chapter-connected-to-the-soul-autoethnography-neurodiversity-and-literacies-in-times-of-ongoing-change/
Hannam-Swain, S. and Bailey, C. (2020) Considering COVID-19: Autoethnographic Reflections on Working Practices in a Time of Crisis by Two Disabled UK Academics. Social Sciences and Humanities Open. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3596104 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3596104
I also reflect a little about being an autistic researcher in my book : Bailey, C. (2021) Researching Virtual Play Experiences: Visual Methods in Education Research. Palgrave Macmillan. https://drchrisjbailey.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/book/
I can be found on twitter here: @drchrisjbailey
Ruling Passions 