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 […]
The lived experience of fibromyalgia
This podcast is an audio-recording with slides as it was presented on the 25th June 2021 to the fibromyalgia support group Faversham Fibromyalgia Friends.
Article: Scope and continuum of participatory research
In this article, I draw on three case studies to explore the relationship between participatory and creative research methods.
Ableismus in Academia: Trotz Fleiß kein Preis?
This post is a link to a recording from an event held via the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, where I was asked to discuss ableism in academia.
Book: Ableism in Academia
The book "Ableism in Academia" provides an interdisciplinary outlook on ableism that is currently missing. Through reporting research data and exploring personal experiences, the contributors theorise and conceptualise what it means to be/work outside the stereotypical norm.
Article: “Where’s the validation?”
This article presents an original engagement with research into emotions in the PhD to ask ‘Where’s the validation?’ by using emotion work as a theoretical foundation.
The research pipeline: managing the publications process
This post outlines how to maintain a research pipeline to plan and manage publications systematically and links to a word template.
Using creative methods to collect data in social research
Workshop to explore creativity within research and to identify opportunities to use creative methods within the research process.
Article: Making academia more accessible
The remit of this paper is to provide practical ideas and recommendations to address accessibility issues in events and conferences as a first step to improving existing working conditions.
Skype – Video-conference interviews in health research
The paper discusses practical, ethical, and methodological pitfalls and concerns when using Skype as a tool for interviewing.
Presentation from UCL Conference
This is my contribution to the international conference "Connecting Higher Education" held at UCL Institute of Education in collaboration with McMaster University, Canada and University of Adelaide, Australia.
The “I” in Fibromyalgia at the PGFes2016
This is my contribution to the Postgraduate Research Festival, the PGFes2016, at the University of Kent.
Assessment as a learning opportunity
Many teacher training sessions focus on assessment but we do not spend enough time on discussing assessment in the sense of marking student work. We do not discuss the impact marking has on the students' learning and the teachers' workload, nor do we talk about how we could make marking more meaningful for our learners.
Research posters
Download two examples of research posters from here.
The educational context
In teacher training there is a heavy focus on the educational context, but does the educational context really matter? Or is there a danger in being too reliant on statistical information relating to the educational context, in which we operate?
Challenges in bilingual families no one tells you about
Bringing up a child bilingually is a conscious decision, but there are issues and challenges that bilingual families encounter that are not mentioned in any of those handbooks or parent guides. Knowing about these might have had led to fewer disappointments.