The research explores how broader-scale patterns of exclusion and inclusion are (re)produced, contested or transformed via young people's everyday practices, which construct variously valued embodied identities. The focus is upon the (re)production or transformation of disability and ability, and how (dis)ability interconnects with other characteristics, such as social 'class', gender and ethnicity. Mixed qualitative and quantitative methods will be employed to examine the interconnections between: socio-economic advantage and disadvantage diagnoses of Special Educational Needs and/or disability young people's everyday practices of (dis)ability individuals' self-representation as (dis)abled. In-depth case-studies will be conducted within school, home and leisure spaces

Semi-structured interviews and focus groups with young people; semi-structured interviews with parents, teachers, educational professionals and other key actors; research diaries of ethnographic observation of 9 case-study schools in three Local Authorities in the South East of England.