Professor Charlotte Pearson

  • Professor of Social Policy (Urban Studies & Social Policy)
  • Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

telephone: 01413305052
email: Charlotte.Pearson@glasgow.ac.uk

R210 Level 2, Urban Studies, 26 Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-6534

Research interests

My research interests focus on critical analyses of policies which promote independent living and equality for disabled people. I am currently working with colleagues at Glasgow, Newcastle and York Universities on a major ESRC study, which examines the experiences of young disabled people as they transition to adulthood.

In other recent work, I have explored the impact of COVID-19 on disabled people and have a long-term interest in examining the implementation of different models of personalisation in social care. I have also completed studies looking at the impact of benefit changes on the lives of disabled people over the life course.

Research groups

Publications

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2024

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. and Witcher, S. (2024) Where next? the conflicts of centralisation, personalisation, and human rights in the reform of social care. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 26(1), pp. 244-258. (doi: 10.16993/sjdr.1116)

2023

Scherer, N., Wiseman, P. , Watson, N. , Brunner, R. , Cullingworth, J. , Hameed, S., Pearson, C. and Shakespeare, T. (2023) 'Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Social Policy, 43(3), pp. 423-447. (doi: 10.1177/02610183221109147) (PMID:37461432) (PMCID:PMC9240722)

Porter, T., Watson, N. and Pearson, C. (2023) Epistemic sabotage: the production and disqualification of evidence in disability benefit assessments. Sociology of Health and Illness, 45(6), pp. 1164-1186. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13593) (PMID:36529900)

2022

Cullingworth, J. , Watson, N. , Shakespeare, T., Brunner, R. , Pearson, C. and Scherer, N. (2022) “They have been a saving grace in all this”: the role of the third sector in disabled people’s experiences of COVID-19 and implications for sector–state relations. Voluntary Sector Review, (Early Online Publication)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Brunner, R. , Cullingworth, J. , Hameed, S., Scherer, N. and Shakespeare, T. (2022) Covid-19 and the crisis in social care: exploring the experiences of disabled people in the pandemic. Social Policy and Society, (doi: 10.1017/S1474746422000112) (Early Online Publication)

Shakespeare, T., Watson, N. , Brunner, R. , Cullingworth, J. , Hameed, S., Scherer, N., Pearson, C. and Reichenberger, V. (2022) Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Policy and Administration, 56(1), pp. 103-117. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12758) (PMID:34548712) (PMCID:PMC8446989)

2021

Porter, T., Pearson, C. and Watson, N. (2021) Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 17(2), pp. 279-296. (doi: 10.1332/174426421X16146990181049)

Shakespeare, T., Watson, N. , Brunner, R. , Cullingworth, J. , Hameed, S., Pearson, C. , Scherer, N. and Reichenberger, V. (2021) Disabled people and the impact of COVID-19: four urgent messages for the government. [Website]

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Gangneux, J. and Norberg, I. (2021) Transition to where and to what? Exploring the experiences of transitions to adulthood for young disabled people. Journal of Youth Studies, 24(10), pp. 1291-1307. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2020.1820972)

2020

Pearson, C. , Brunner, R. , Porter, T. and Watson, N. (2020) Personalisation and the promise of independent living: where now for cash, care and control for disability organisations across the UK? Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 22(1), pp. 285-295. (doi: 10.16993/sjdr.742)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Gangneux, J. and Norberg, I. (2020) Transition to where and to what? Transitions for young disabled people and the epistemological fallacy. In: Goodley, D., Runswick-Cole, K. and Liddiard, K. (eds.) Interventions in Disabled Childhood Studies. iHuman Press: Sheffield, pp. 59-64.

2019

Pearson, C. (2019) Independent living and the failure of governments. In: Watson, N. and Vehmas, S. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138365308

2018

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. and Manji, K. (2018) Changing the culture of social care in Scotland: Has a shift to personalisation brought about transformative change? Social Policy and Administration, 52, pp. 662-676. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12352)

Pearson, C. and Watson, N. (2018) Implementing health and social care integration in Scotland: Renegotiating new partnerships in changing cultures of care. Health and Social Care in the Community, 26(3), e396-e403. (doi: 10.1111/hsc.12537) (PMID:29349854)

2017

Pearson, C. and Ridley, J. (2017) Is personalization the right plan at the wrong time?: Re-thinking cash-for-care in an age of austerity. Social Policy and Administration, 51(7), pp. 1042-1059. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12216)

2015

Pearson, C. and Trevisan, F. (2015) Disability activism in the new media ecology: campaigning strategies in the digital era. Disability and Society, 30(6), pp. 924-940. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1051516)

Pearson, C. (2015) Debates in personalisation, edited by Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby. Disability and Society, 30(7), pp. 1131-1133. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1037560)[Book Review]

2014

Pearson, C. , Ridley, J. and Hunter, S. (2014) Self-Directed Support: Personalisation, Choice and Control. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care, 19. Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781780460246

2012

Pearson, C. (2012) Independent living. In: Watson, N., Roulstone, A. and Thomas, C. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Disability Studies. Series: Routledge handbooks. Routledge: London, pp. 240-252. ISBN 9780415574006

2011

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Stalker, K., Lepiniere, J., Paterson, K. and Ferrie, J. (2011) Don’t get involved: an examination of how public sector organisations in England are involving disabled people in the Disability Equality Duty. Disability and Society, 26(3), pp. 255-268. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2011.560370)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Stalker, K., Ferrie, J. , Lepiniere, J. and Paterson, K. (2011) Mainstreaming the disability equality duty and the impact on public authorities' working practices. Social Policy and Society, 10(2), pp. 239-250. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746410000588)

2010

Priestley, M., Riddell, S., Jolly, D., Pearson, C. , Williams, V., Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (2010) Cultures of welfare at the front line: implementing direct payments for disabled people in the UK. Policy and Politics, 38(2), p. 307. (doi: 10.1332/030557309X477956)

2008

Ferrie, J. , Lepiniere, J., Paterson, K., Pearson, C. , Stalker, K. and Watson, N. (2008) An In-Depth Examination of the Implementation of the Disability Equality Duty in England: Report for the Office for Disability Issues. Project Report. Office for Disability Issues.

2007

Pearson, C. and Watson, N. (2007) Tackling disability discrimination in the United Kingdom: the British Disability Discrimination Act. Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, 23(95), pp. 95-120.

2006

Pearson, C. ed. (2006) Direct Payments and Personalisation of Care. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care, 2. Dunedin Academic: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781903765623

Pearson, C. , Barnes, C., Jolly, D., Mercer, G., Priestley, M. and Riddell, S. (2006) Personal Assistance Policy in the UK: What's the problem with direct payments? Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(1),

Pearson, C. (2006) Direct payments in Scotland. In: Leece, J. and Bornat, J. (eds.) Developments in Direct Payments. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 33-47. ISBN 9781861346544

Priestley, M., Jolly, D., Pearson, C. , Riddell, S., Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (2006) Direct Payments and Disabled People in the UK: Supply, Demand and Devolution. British Journal of Social Work,

2005

Pearson, C. , Barnes, C., Jolly, D., Mercer, G., Priestley, M. and Riddell, S. (2005) Promoting personal assistance in the UK: What's the problem with direct payments? Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(1),

Riddell, S., Pearson, C. , Barnes, C., Jolly, D., Mercer, G. and Priestley, M. (2005) The development of direct payments: implications for social justice. Social Policy and Society, 4(1), pp. 75-85.

2004

Banks, P. and Pearson, C. (2004) Parallel lives: Young stroke survivors and their partners coping with crisis. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 19(4), pp. 413-429.

Pearson, C. (2004) The implementation of direct payments: issues for user-led organisations in Scotland. In: Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (eds.) Disability Policy and Practice: Applying the Social Model. The Disability Press. ISBN 0952845091

Pearson, C. (2004) Keeping the cash under control: What's the problem with direct payments in Scotland? Disability and Society, 19(1), pp. 3-14.

2000

Pearson, C. (2000) Money talks? Competing discourses in the implementation of direct payments. Critical Social Policy, 20(4), pp. 459-477. (doi: 10.1177/026101830002000403)

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Articles

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. and Witcher, S. (2024) Where next? the conflicts of centralisation, personalisation, and human rights in the reform of social care. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 26(1), pp. 244-258. (doi: 10.16993/sjdr.1116)

Scherer, N., Wiseman, P. , Watson, N. , Brunner, R. , Cullingworth, J. , Hameed, S., Pearson, C. and Shakespeare, T. (2023) 'Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Social Policy, 43(3), pp. 423-447. (doi: 10.1177/02610183221109147) (PMID:37461432) (PMCID:PMC9240722)

Porter, T., Watson, N. and Pearson, C. (2023) Epistemic sabotage: the production and disqualification of evidence in disability benefit assessments. Sociology of Health and Illness, 45(6), pp. 1164-1186. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13593) (PMID:36529900)

Cullingworth, J. , Watson, N. , Shakespeare, T., Brunner, R. , Pearson, C. and Scherer, N. (2022) “They have been a saving grace in all this”: the role of the third sector in disabled people’s experiences of COVID-19 and implications for sector–state relations. Voluntary Sector Review, (Early Online Publication)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Brunner, R. , Cullingworth, J. , Hameed, S., Scherer, N. and Shakespeare, T. (2022) Covid-19 and the crisis in social care: exploring the experiences of disabled people in the pandemic. Social Policy and Society, (doi: 10.1017/S1474746422000112) (Early Online Publication)

Shakespeare, T., Watson, N. , Brunner, R. , Cullingworth, J. , Hameed, S., Scherer, N., Pearson, C. and Reichenberger, V. (2022) Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Policy and Administration, 56(1), pp. 103-117. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12758) (PMID:34548712) (PMCID:PMC8446989)

Porter, T., Pearson, C. and Watson, N. (2021) Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefit assessments. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 17(2), pp. 279-296. (doi: 10.1332/174426421X16146990181049)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Gangneux, J. and Norberg, I. (2021) Transition to where and to what? Exploring the experiences of transitions to adulthood for young disabled people. Journal of Youth Studies, 24(10), pp. 1291-1307. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2020.1820972)

Pearson, C. , Brunner, R. , Porter, T. and Watson, N. (2020) Personalisation and the promise of independent living: where now for cash, care and control for disability organisations across the UK? Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 22(1), pp. 285-295. (doi: 10.16993/sjdr.742)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. and Manji, K. (2018) Changing the culture of social care in Scotland: Has a shift to personalisation brought about transformative change? Social Policy and Administration, 52, pp. 662-676. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12352)

Pearson, C. and Watson, N. (2018) Implementing health and social care integration in Scotland: Renegotiating new partnerships in changing cultures of care. Health and Social Care in the Community, 26(3), e396-e403. (doi: 10.1111/hsc.12537) (PMID:29349854)

Pearson, C. and Ridley, J. (2017) Is personalization the right plan at the wrong time?: Re-thinking cash-for-care in an age of austerity. Social Policy and Administration, 51(7), pp. 1042-1059. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12216)

Pearson, C. and Trevisan, F. (2015) Disability activism in the new media ecology: campaigning strategies in the digital era. Disability and Society, 30(6), pp. 924-940. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1051516)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Stalker, K., Lepiniere, J., Paterson, K. and Ferrie, J. (2011) Don’t get involved: an examination of how public sector organisations in England are involving disabled people in the Disability Equality Duty. Disability and Society, 26(3), pp. 255-268. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2011.560370)

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Stalker, K., Ferrie, J. , Lepiniere, J. and Paterson, K. (2011) Mainstreaming the disability equality duty and the impact on public authorities' working practices. Social Policy and Society, 10(2), pp. 239-250. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746410000588)

Priestley, M., Riddell, S., Jolly, D., Pearson, C. , Williams, V., Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (2010) Cultures of welfare at the front line: implementing direct payments for disabled people in the UK. Policy and Politics, 38(2), p. 307. (doi: 10.1332/030557309X477956)

Pearson, C. and Watson, N. (2007) Tackling disability discrimination in the United Kingdom: the British Disability Discrimination Act. Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, 23(95), pp. 95-120.

Pearson, C. , Barnes, C., Jolly, D., Mercer, G., Priestley, M. and Riddell, S. (2006) Personal Assistance Policy in the UK: What's the problem with direct payments? Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(1),

Priestley, M., Jolly, D., Pearson, C. , Riddell, S., Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (2006) Direct Payments and Disabled People in the UK: Supply, Demand and Devolution. British Journal of Social Work,

Pearson, C. , Barnes, C., Jolly, D., Mercer, G., Priestley, M. and Riddell, S. (2005) Promoting personal assistance in the UK: What's the problem with direct payments? Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(1),

Riddell, S., Pearson, C. , Barnes, C., Jolly, D., Mercer, G. and Priestley, M. (2005) The development of direct payments: implications for social justice. Social Policy and Society, 4(1), pp. 75-85.

Banks, P. and Pearson, C. (2004) Parallel lives: Young stroke survivors and their partners coping with crisis. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 19(4), pp. 413-429.

Pearson, C. (2004) Keeping the cash under control: What's the problem with direct payments in Scotland? Disability and Society, 19(1), pp. 3-14.

Pearson, C. (2000) Money talks? Competing discourses in the implementation of direct payments. Critical Social Policy, 20(4), pp. 459-477. (doi: 10.1177/026101830002000403)

Books

Pearson, C. , Ridley, J. and Hunter, S. (2014) Self-Directed Support: Personalisation, Choice and Control. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care, 19. Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781780460246

Pearson, C. ed. (2006) Direct Payments and Personalisation of Care. Series: Policy and practice in health and social care, 2. Dunedin Academic: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781903765623

Book Sections

Pearson, C. , Watson, N. , Gangneux, J. and Norberg, I. (2020) Transition to where and to what? Transitions for young disabled people and the epistemological fallacy. In: Goodley, D., Runswick-Cole, K. and Liddiard, K. (eds.) Interventions in Disabled Childhood Studies. iHuman Press: Sheffield, pp. 59-64.

Pearson, C. (2019) Independent living and the failure of governments. In: Watson, N. and Vehmas, S. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138365308

Pearson, C. (2012) Independent living. In: Watson, N., Roulstone, A. and Thomas, C. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Disability Studies. Series: Routledge handbooks. Routledge: London, pp. 240-252. ISBN 9780415574006

Pearson, C. (2006) Direct payments in Scotland. In: Leece, J. and Bornat, J. (eds.) Developments in Direct Payments. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 33-47. ISBN 9781861346544

Pearson, C. (2004) The implementation of direct payments: issues for user-led organisations in Scotland. In: Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (eds.) Disability Policy and Practice: Applying the Social Model. The Disability Press. ISBN 0952845091

Book Reviews

Pearson, C. (2015) Debates in personalisation, edited by Catherine Needham and Jon Glasby. Disability and Society, 30(7), pp. 1131-1133. (doi: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1037560)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Ferrie, J. , Lepiniere, J., Paterson, K., Pearson, C. , Stalker, K. and Watson, N. (2008) An In-Depth Examination of the Implementation of the Disability Equality Duty in England: Report for the Office for Disability Issues. Project Report. Office for Disability Issues.

Website

Shakespeare, T., Watson, N. , Brunner, R. , Cullingworth, J. , Hameed, S., Pearson, C. , Scherer, N. and Reichenberger, V. (2021) Disabled people and the impact of COVID-19: four urgent messages for the government. [Website]

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Grants

Exploring the inequalities and diversities in disabled young adult transitions with J McLaughlin (Newcastle University) (PI), T Shildrick(Newcastle University), E Coleman-Fountain (York University) and N Watson (Glasgow).

ESRC Open call

2023

£994,268  

 

Why has the policy of self-directed support not secured transformative change in social care in Scotland? Establishing a dialogue for policy reform at a time of change (PI) with N Watson

ERSC Impact Acceleration Account

2022 

 £11,532

Disabled People and COVID-19 in the UK with N Watson and T Shakespeare (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) (Co-I)

UKRI

2020-2021

£280,000

 

Evaluation of the Independent Living Transitions Fund, with N Watson (PI)

Scottish Government

2018-19

£49,720

 

Exploring the impact of welfare reform on the lives of disabled people, with T Porter, T Shakespeare (University of East Anglia) and N Watson (Co-I)

Disability Benefits Consortium

2018

£35,954



Exploring the implementation of health and social care integration in Scotland (PI)

What Works Scotland.

2016-17

£12,000

 

An In-Depth Examination of the Implementation of the Disability Equality Duty with N Watson and K Stalker (University of Strathclyde) (Co-I)

Office for Disability Issues, Department for Work and Pensions.

2008
£120,000

The implementation of direct payments for people who use care services with S Riddell (University of Edinburgh) and N Watson (Co-I)
Scottish Parliament Information Centre for the Health Committee
2006
£28,650

Disabled People and Direct Payments: A UK comparative study with S. Riddell (University of Edinburgh), C. Barnes, G. Mercer and M. Priestley (University of Leeds) (Co-I)
Economic and Social Research Council
2006
£216,849.

Supervision

I am interested in supervising doctoral studies in the following areas:

  • Disability and independent living.
  • Disability and youth transitions to adulthood.
  • Personalisation in social care.
  • Disability and social security systems.

 

Current students:

Lisa Paul

Thesis title: Personal assistance for disabled people, changing labour markets and social care reform 

Sponser: SGSSS Collaborative Studentship (with Scottish Government/PA Programme Board)

Duration: 2024-2027

Successful completions:

Aizan Amin

Thesis title: Disability and gender in the global South: the lived experiences of disabled women in Malaysia
Sponsor: Association of Commonwealth Universities
Duration: 2011-2014

Joanne Brown

Thesis title: Behaviour change in action for disabled benefit recipients
Sponsor: ESRC

Duration: 2013-2020

Kainde Manji

Thesis title: Understanding the impact of welfare reform on equality groups in Scotland
Sponsor: Scottish Government/ESRC
Duration: 2012-2017

Filippo Trevisan

Thesis title: Connected citizens or digital isolation? Online disability activism in times of crisis
Sponsor: ESRC
Duration: 2009-2013

Chris Warburton-Brown

Thesis title: How does Mum manage? Investigating the financial circumstances of mothers in lower incomes working families
Sponsor: ESRC/DWP
Duration: 2006-2011

 Victoria Williams

Thesis title: Obesity, Food Choice and Body Image in Adults with Learning Disabilities
Sponsor: ESRC
Duration: 2006-11

Karen Young

Thesis title: Where is the person in personalisation? Experiences of People with Learning Disabilities and their Families in Glasgow
Sponsor: ESRC
Duration: 2013-2020

 

PhD examining

Anna Bochorishvili: Relationship experiences of Disabled Women in Georgia, University of Glasgow 2022.

Lisa Curtice: Lessons for inclusive citizenship?: Difference, disability and rights of people with leaning disabilities who have high support needs, University of Glasgow, 2010.

Susanne Gamble: Collaborative working within one Scottish Health and Social Care Integration Joint Board: A case study approach, University of West of Scotland, 2023.

Susan Laughlin: Social Justice for a Heterogeneous Population? An Investigation into the Public Sector Duty in Glasgow, University of Glasgow, 2018.

Victoria Murray: The Moving Landscapes of Learning Disability, University of Glasgow, 2017.

Thomas Rochow: Young people, individualism and welfare conditionality over time, University of Glasgow, 2023. 

Dianne-Dominque Theakstone: A citizenship of humanity: a comparative analysis of the governance mechanisms in two centres for independent living that enhance disabled peoples’ life choices, University of Stirling, 2015.

Philippa Wiseman: Reconciling the Private’ and ‘Public’: disabled young people’s experiences of everyday embodied citizenship, University of Glasgow, 2014.

 

Teaching

  • I am currently the Honours Convenor for the Undergraduate Programme in Social & Public Policy.

My other teaching and administration roles include:

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

Additional information

Special Advising roles

I was specialist adviser to the House of Lords Public Services Committee Inquiry which is looking at the transition from education to employment for young disabled people.

I am an academic adviser to the Scottish Government's Personal Assistants' Programme Board. 

Editorial Boards

Editor: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Editor: Disability & Society (2005-2019)

Series Editor: Policy and Practice In Health and Social Care: Dunedin Press (2012-2020) 

 

 


Charlotte Pearson