Liz Dew (she/her)
School of Education
Disability Access Project Coordinator - iHuman
+44 114 2XX XXXX
Full contact details
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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As Disability Access Project Coordinator for the Depathologising Research Culture project, Liz works across access, research and the complexities of university systems and processes. Her role combines practical access work with collaboration, writing and reflection, helping to make the project and its ways of working as accessible as possible.
Across her work, Liz is interested in the relationship between social justice and the everyday workings of institutions: how systems and assumptions shape who can participate, whose knowledge counts, and what becomes possible when we start to question the way things are usually done.
- Presentations and publications
Presentations:
Halsey, R., Dew, L. and Dunning, L. Beyond the Desk: How Professional Services Staff Shape Inclusive Research Culture. Presented at the Nordic Network on DIsability Research Conference, 7-9 May 2025 in Helsinki, Finland.
Lawthom, R., Kill, C. and Dew, L. Parasitic leadership and professional services work as everyday creative activism in the neoliberal-ableist academy. Presented at the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society Conference, 11th June 2025 in Dublin, Ireland.
Dew, L., Dunning, L. and Halsey, R. Professional Services, Disability & Inclusive Research Cultures. Online. Presented on 3rd July 2025 in Sheffield, UK.
Dew, L. and Soorenian, A. Keynote Speech: Reimagining Research Culture, Together. Presented at The University of Leeds Research Culture Day, 14th July 2025, Leeds, UK.
Dew, L. and Soorenian, A. NCRC Conversation Series: Reimagining Research Culture, Together. Online. 23rd April 2026. Presented at the National Centre for Research Culture, Warwick, UK.
Publications:
Halsey, Rhea, Liz Dew and Lucy Dunning (2025). Beyond the Desk: How Professional Services Staff Shape Inclusive Research Culture. In Goodley, D., Halsey, R., Scully, J., Singh, S. R., Titchkosky, T. and Wong, M.E. (Editors). The Disability Matters Scholarship Collection. Sheffield: University of Sheffield.
Dew, L., Evans, H., Gauthier-Marmaril, E., Jones, D. P., Kill, C., Lee, C., Mishra, A., Phillips, S., Soorenian, A., and White, L. (2025). Imagining the anti-ableist university. GEOZONe. Anti-Ableist University Zine