Selected Publications

• Ryan S (2010) 'Meltdowns', surveillance and managing emotions; going out with children with autism. Health Place, 16(5):868-875.

• Ryan Sara and Runswick Cole C (2009) From advocate to activist? Mapping the experiences of mothers of children on the autism spectrum Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disability, 22 (1):43-53.

• Ryan Sara (2008) ‘“I used to worry about what other people thought but now I just think… well I don’t care”: shifting accounts of learning difficulties in public places’ Health and Place, 14 (4):730-739.

• Ryan Sara and Raisanen Ulla (2008) “It's like you are just a spectator in this thing”: Experiencing social life the ‘aspie’ way Emotion, Space and Society, 1 (2):135-143.

• Ryan Sara and Runswick Cole C (2008) ‘Repositioning mothers: mothers, disabled children and disability studies’ Disability and Society, 23 (3):199-210.

 Sara Ryan is a sociologist and her research interests are disability, public interactions and qualitative methodology.  She joined the department in 2007 and is working on a DIPEx module about the experiences of living with autistic spectrum disorders.