Ayşe Nur Leblebicier, one of the academic staff of our department, presented her paper titled ‘Those “In Limbo” Who Are Neither Healthy Nor Disabled: A Phenomenological Approach to Hearing Loss’ in the session titled ‘Disability and mental health at the intersection of policies, technologies and (new) inequalities’ at the 16th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference held in Porto, 27-30 August.