SoE Voices: Anti-Ableism in the Academy: Emerging findings from the WAARC Project

Delivered by the Critical Disability Studies cluster

Priority Area 1: Environment was led by Armineh Soorenian and Kirsty Liddiard who experimented with new ideas for inclusive recruitment and employment practices. They asked what policies and practices might better bring disabled researchers into the university? 

Priority Area 2: Development produced new guidelines on accessible research events and delivered a new course on inclusive research methods to raise the capacities of postgraduate researchers and Early Career Researchers. This area was led by Lauren White and Nikita Hayden. They will showcase collaborative videos for hosting inclusive events and for doing research with disabled people. 

Priority Area 3: Collaboration, was led by Sophie Phillips and Dan Goodley. This priority area put disabled people front and centre of a series of four collaborative projects funded during the time of WAARC. These four Collaborative Projects brought together University of Sheffield researchers with disabled people’s organisations (DPO) to carry out small scale projects that reflect the interests of the DPOs. 

We also have a cross-cutting theme where some of key findings and headlines are being brought together and reflected upon by Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Antonios Ktenidis. They are generating new ways of doing knowledge exchange; where we might debate, discuss and share our ideas about anti-ableism including a podcast series, arts exhibition and public events informed by the arts and activism.