iHuman Co-Director Dan Goodley joins the British Academy for their 10-Minute Talks series

Dan unpacks depathologisation in the university and the impact it can have on how we understand knowledge, power, and belonging.

Drawing on critical disability studies, this talk challenges the pathologising assumptions embedded in higher education and asks who benefits when disability is treated as a problem. Moving disability from margin to centre, it explores how depathologisation can transform universities from institutions that manage differences into communities that reimagine society.  

Rather than a problem to be solved, disability becomes an opportunity for social change.

10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy. 

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iHuman

How we understand being ‘human’ differs between disciplines and has changed radically over time. We are living in an age marked by rapid growth in knowledge about the human body and brain, and new technologies with the potential to change them.