Kelly-Mae Saville
Research Assistant
School of Law
B1.06, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Dr Kelly-Mae Saville is a sociologist whose research is situated at the intersection of disability, health, genomic medicine, gender, embodiment, and social justice. Her scholarship is centrally concerned with the operation of power, the production of knowledge, and regimes of governance, with a sustained commitment to challenging structural inequalities and amplifying marginalised voices. Her academic practice is grounded in qualitative auto/ethnographic methodologies, informed by feminist, decolonial, and social justice principles. Working across disciplinary boundaries, her research draws on sociology, critical disability studies, anthropology, socio-legal and public policy scholarship.
A central strand of Kelly-Mae’s work examines dwarfism, motherhood, and the biopolitical consequences of emerging treatments in dwarfism healthcare. Her research critically interrogates how biopower is enacted through maternal responsibility, clinical governance, and normative imaginaries of bodily difference. Collectively, her scholarly pursuits foreground embodied, experiential, and community-based knowledges, bridging academic and community-facing debates. She has led and collaborated on projects that integrate rigorous qualitative inquiry with community engagement, activism, and policy dialogue, reflecting a strong commitment to publicly engaged and socially accountable scholarship.
Kelly-Mae’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, contributed as chapters to academic textbooks, and presented at conferences. Her work has attracted international attention, and she has consulted in policy-facing contexts, including participation in European Commission consultation processes that inform social and legislative debates and advise the development of EU policy.