Beyond inclusion: reimagining an anti-ableist higher education
In April 2024, I was asked to deliver a keynote for an international webinar organised by CripLab. CripLab is a research laboratory on crip posthumanities in Santiago, Chile, whose members seek to map the modes of discursive and material production of the norm of dis/ability in Chilean universities that develop […]
Book launch: Making the most of your research journal
This is the recording of the book launch event to celebrate the publication of "Making the most of your research journal".
Wellbeing in Higher Education podcast: Ableism
I was invited to contribute to the Cambridge Centre for International Research podcast series to talk about the experience of disabled people in higher education and how to improve the situation.
Conferencing “disabled style”
This is an extract from a guest post on the Conference Inference blog published upon invitation in relation to my ableism in academia work. In this post, I illustrate what it means to do conferencing "disabled style", when your body and/or mind are not typical, and what the realities are of navigating and negotiating conference spaces under the influence of visible and invisible conditions.
Article: “Listen to your gut”: a reflexive approach to data analysis
This paper seeks to exemplify a reflexive approach to data analysis that accounts for the researcher’s positionality as well as the increasingly untraditional, unconventional data stemming from creative data collection methods.
Article: My challenge of developing a creative research methods network
This article is an invited editorial in the Diverse Voice Series of the journal. The editorial outlines the difficulty of building a network of like-minded researchers when engaging in arts-based approaches.
Article: Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill academics?
From the context of UK higher education this article explores ableism in academia to stimulate a debate and raise awareness of those disabled and ill academics , whose voices are not heard.
Joining Ableism in Academia event
Find here the instructions of how to join the Ableism in Academia event via the connected UCL moodle page.
Creative methods – messy data?
This is to stimulate a discussion around boundaries of research, ethics and ownership of "messy data" resulting from creative methods.
Workshop: Using creative methods in research
In this interactive workshop participants explore creativity within research, experiment with and explore opportunities for creative methods in research.
Making sense of fibromyalgia experiences
To make sense of my participants' experiences, I am creating an art installation based on the raw data I receive in my research work.
How much reading is enough?
I am often asked how much reading is enough? In this post I outline what you should consider in order to decide when it is enough.
Book review: Doing research in education – Theory and practice
This review is about the book "Doing research in education". A fabulous resource and introduction to doing research in education.
Findings from RefME survey on plagiarism
RefME survey findings show how students are affected by plagiarism. More needs to be done to prevent plagiarism by raising awareness.
Invisible illness and academic identity
A brief outline of intended research in relation to the invisible illness fibromyalgia and its impact on academic identity.
Reflective model according to Brookfield
This is a brief description of how Brookfield's four lenses work in reflective practice.