David Bolt (disability studies)
David Bolt is the founding editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies" and the director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, where he is also Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity. Academic work. Bolt joined Liverpool Hope University in August 2009 as a lecturer in disability studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies", founder of the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars, and was the first Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster  University. His published works include: Centre for Culture & Disability Studies. Bolt is the director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies (CCDS; Liverpool Hope University). The work of the CCDS is fundamentally concerned with social justice: with challenging and changing the inequalities and prejudices that people who are disabled face on a daily basis. Key areas of interest include: CCDS YouTube Channel The CCDS events are internationally recognised for bringing together a mix of Early Career Researchers and some of the most eminent professors in the field. The seminars are often filmed. People can now subscribe to this channel to  access various videos. Music. In the early to mid 1980s Bolt was singer and songwriter in the pop-rock group Life (first known as Private Life). At the group’s peak Bolt worked with drummer Roy Walker, bassist Steven Burns, keyboard player Paul Gribbin, and guitarist Paul Beal. Life recorded and rehearsed at the Gaolhouse Studio in Newcastle-under-Lyme and played at large venues such as Bingley Hall in Stafford and the King’s Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. In the mid 1980s the group recorded its vinyl release ‘Take Me Higher Now’ and ‘You’re Still Running’ at  Swallow Studios in Cheshire. Bolt continued writing and recording in the Secret Room Recording Studio until the mid 1990s.