01/12/2025
Join the Disabled Students Network for one of our amazing guest speakers for Disability History Month! Please get a free a ticket and please email me (Danilo, Disabled Students' Officer, ) if you have any questions at all or if I can make the event more accessible for you! Delivery will be hybrid so please email me if you would like to attend online so we can send the zoom link!
Ableism in Academia: the roles and responsibilities of staff and student networks
Disability in higher education remains a complex issue with disclosure rates amongst staff and students in academia remaining lower than in the general population. In this presentation, Nicole Brown draws on her extensive research into ableism in academia to specifically explore the roles and responsibilities of staff and student networks when it comes to advocacy work in higher education.
Bio:
Dr Nicole Brown is Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Education. A leading voice in embodied research, she draws on creative, arts-based methods to challenge conventional approaches to researching ableism, disability, chronic illness, and neurodivergence in higher education. Her research foregrounds lived experience and advocates for new ways of listening, speaking, and representing experience that drive cultural, institutional, and structural change. Nicole’s publications include Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education, and Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education. Her next book will be the creative anthology Exceptionally Able.
