Research Question
This initial project researches the lived experience of disability in relation to teaching practices at UAL and arts higher education, and institutional ableism. What does practising solidarity and inclusion with disabled staff and students look like? Can we interview staff about their experiences as students as well as their practice as faculty today, to initiate and map future Action Research cycles that hone in on current failings?
What are the ways disabled staff lived experiences, counter the current climate of embedded ableism within teaching and learning in higher education within arts education? With disabled students still falling through the cracks every day in higher education and pushed out of educational spaces, how does the experiences of disabled staff themselves, serve to impact the teaching and learning experience for disabled students today?
Brown, Kirsten & Evans, Nancy & Broido, Ellen & Wilke, Autumn. (2017). Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach.