Future Perfect – Future Imperfect? is an e-book that links to the D4D project. The brief for contributions to this publication asked for projections into the future. What will the future look like for disabled people? How will we think of disability in the context of posthuman thinking and scientific advances that will enable us to create human / technology hybrids?
Steph Harvey recently completed a research PhD in Disability and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University, linked to the D4D project. Harvey spoke to Natasha Sutton Williams about the disconnect between how disability is discussed by academics and policy-makers compared to the lived experience of people with long-term mental health conditions from cross-cultural backgrounds.
Martin Levinson is Professor of Cultural Identities at Bath Spa University. He works in Educational Anthropology, and his research centres around minority, marginalised and disadvantaged groups. As Principal Investigator on the D4D project, he is responsible for co-ordination across the different workstreams. Natasha Sutton Williams chatted to him about his ethnographic research, genetic screening, and changing perceptions around disability.
Dr Tanvir Bush reports on a workshop at Bath University on 31 October, 2019. The theme was ‘Disability and hate crime in higher education’ and was part of a newly created six-week course titled ‘Tackling Hate Crime in Higher Education.’.
Praminda Caleb-Solly leads on the Catch me if you can Participating through Play project for D4D. Here she reports on an Innovate UK Long Term Care Revolution funded project called Connecting Assistive Solutions to Aspirations.
Martin Levinson reports back on the Conference at Liverpool Hope University on 19th September 2019
I arrived in Copenhagen, papers and powerpoint in hand, feeling just about ready to present my first paper at a major international disability research conference.…
This workshop is a practical session for researchers and creative practitioners who want to gain a better understanding of how to ethically engage in research or creative practice that involves people from marginalised or so-called ‘minority’ groups and/or people from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Image credit: Pexels.com By Diane Carr and Esther Fox. Introduction: Esther Fox is a visual artist, Head of Accentuate and a Community Co-Investigator on the…
The Empathy and Writing group researches the uses and limits of empathy in personal and professional life, creativity, reading, writing and in the recovery from…
