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Time: Wed 9th Dec, 10-11am GMT / 2-3pm UAE

Delivered by: Higher Education Futures Institute, University of Birmingham

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Chapter 7: ‘But you don’t look disabled’: Non-visible disabilities, disclosure and being an ‘insider’ in disability research and ‘other’ in the disability movement and academia - Elisabeth Griffiths

Abstract:This chapter is a personal narrative of my getting to this point in my career, to ‘here’, as a disability law scholar and solicitor with a non-visible disability and a disabled woman working in academia. It is a self-reflection on my experience of the research process and an insider account of my position within that research. I had not anticipated that the well established philosophy of the disability rights movement of ‘nothing about us without us’ would take on a personal meaning during my research. Framed within the field of autoethnography (Ellis 2004), I am inviting you, the reader, into my world as I have engaged in the research process while completing a professional doctorate in law.

in Brown, N. and Leigh, J., (2020) Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education, London: UCL Press. [Online] https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110703/1/Ableism-in-Academia.pdfLinks to an external site.