Dr Paul A. Darke is from Surrey in the south of England. Born with Spina Bifida Dr Darke is a wheelchair user. Attended "Special" School but left with no qualifications. Started at University as a mature student and gained a PhD under the supervision of Professor Richard Dyer at the University of Warwick exploring Disability and British Cinema.
Based in the Midlands, Dr Darke is an acclaimed creative thinker and artist, having undertaken over 30 years of projects in a broad range of cultural spheres as an innovator, mentor and leader. Working in areas such as Filmmaking, Photography, Sculpture, Critical Thinking, Health and Welfare (Wellbeing - Dr Darke is a qualified Social Worker), Learning Disability, Writing Lecturing, Film Festivals, Art Festivals, Theatre Promoter and Disability Studies, Dr Darke has an international reputation.
Working with national organisations such as Arts Council England, British Film Instutute and a numbers of academic institutions, Dr Darke continues to develop work and practice in such as way as to inspire change. He has previously been director of West Midlands Disability Arts Federation and recently completed a large-scale arts programme entitled Wolves In Wolves, with Wolverhampton Council and Wolverhampton Football Club, which he initiated and directed.
Dr Darke founded Outside Centre (Digital Disability) leading it creatively and practically for over 20 years, and all Dr Darke's work is covered - with acknowledgements where due - throughout the Digital Disability website. Dr Darke research includes collaborative practice and he feels that partnership and equality are an essential core of any good practice in any sphere.
He has recently worked with MIMA at Teesside University and its research staff submitting under Art and Design to Unit of Assessment 32 for REF 2021, advising individually on the narrative statements and portfolios necessary for submission under the direction of Professor Simon McKeown.
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Date |
The Academic Work |
Details |
2020-21 |
REF 2021 Consultant |
MIMA Teesside University Art & Design under Professor Simon McKeown |
2005 |
Introductory Essay On Normality Theory |
Outside Centre Commission |
2005 |
Disability and Film Education Pack |
British Film Institute, South Bank London |
2005 |
Disability Film Catalogue |
British Film Institute, South Bank London |
White Sticks, Wheels and Crutches Disability and the Moving image |
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2002 |
Pathologising Disability the Cinematic Way |
Film and the Problem Body edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic (forthcoming in the USA) |
2002 |
Changing Represenation of Disability in the Media |
Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments (2nd / New Edition), edited by John Swain, Colin Barnes (et al) |
Now I Know Why Disability Art is Drowning in the River Lethe (with thanks to Pierre Bourdieu) |
Disability, Culture and Society, edited by Nick Watson and Sheila Riddell, Pearson Education, Harlow |
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1999 |
Environments With Attitude |
Arts Council of England |
1999 |
The Cinematic Construction of Physical Disability |
The PhD - Supervised by Professor Richard Dyer at the University of Warwick |
1998 |
Understanding Cinematic Representation of Disability |
The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives, edited by Tom Shakespeare, Cassell, London |
Abortion and Disability: Is that Different |
Swimming Against the Tide: Feminist Dissent on the Issue of Abortion (Ed. Angela Kennedy) |
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1997 |
Film and Disability: From Polemical Theory to Defining Analysis |
Book Four: Discursive Practices, MA Disability Studies Distance Learning Course, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, Sheffield University |
1997 |
Everywhere: Disability on Film |
Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media, edited by Anne Pointon and Chris Davies, bfi, London |
1996 |
Sexual Politics/Disability |
The Sexual Politics of Disability, edited by Tom Shakespeare, Kath Gillespie-Sells and Dominic Davis, Cassell, London |
1996 |
Research Paper: Disabled Social Workers |
University of Leeds and CCETSW |
1995 - 2004 |
Book Reviews: |
University of Leicester / Leeds |
1995 |
Link (Central Television): An Evaluation |
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Disability and Society, Vol. 9, No. 3:327-342 (University of Leeds) |
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1994 |
Distance Learning Module on Special Education |
University of Sheffield |
1991 - 2020 |
De Montfort University / University of Leeds / University of Newcastle (Medical School) / University of Warwich / University of Wolverhampton / Wolverhampton College / Strasbourg / Brussels / Seoul / Manchester Metrolitan University / Coventry University / University of Teesside / Liverpool John Moores University / LIPA / University of Essex |
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