Ben Whitburn
@BenWhitburn
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Associate Professor. disability studies; higher education; Inclusive ed; breakbeats. Views own.
Southampton, England
Joined October 2014
No doubt decision makers can learn a lot from disabled experiences. But must we time and again celebrate them donning blackened out sunglasses and wandering city streets as an example of living blind/vision impaired?
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Leeds councillors take a walking tour wearing glasses that simulate sight problems.
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3/3 Based on this analysis, we present a discussion how matters of inherency might shift to more relational responses, to necessarily diversify the teaching profession #InclusiveEducation
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2/3 This one is a survey of students of #TeacherEducation, and the paper explains how #DisabledStudents are particularly affected by supposed inherent abilities to teach
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1/3 Pleased to have published our 5th paper studying inherent requirements (competence standards) with @TimCorcoran10 & @Tremcc #OpenAccess enAccess in StudiesInHigherEducation
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2/2 We were fortunate to present some of this work @CDSLeeds #CDS24, and we'll also share more at #BERAWERA2024 on Tuesday 10 September at 9:00am.
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1/2 Belonging in higher education: how disabled staff and PhD students experience #Un/Belonging to inform future #EDI strategy. Research by @JVincent_Tweets and myself. @BERANews blogpost in time for #BERAWERA2024
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In this blog post we offer some insights from a recent study among disabled staff and PhD students in the UK to consider what it means to un/belong in the current higher education (HE)...
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6/6 These include #InstitutionalisingAccessibility and #TakingCreativeRisks to emphasise #Equity and #Inclusion as relational interests, rather than individualising #A11Y as #ReasonableAdjustments.
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5/6 Reflecting with principles from #CriticalDisabilityStudies has been instructive for generating practical recommendations for institutions to challenge #Ableism within their #EDI strategies.
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4/6 These domains include the physical, digital, relational and structural spaces of the workplace. Each presents inclusive possibilities, but also foreclose them when #A11Y is compromised.
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3/6 Drawing on a conceptual framework of spatial belonging in higher education by @billybwong, we assembled a #PostQualitativeNarrative on our experiences across 4 domains, with the aim of demonstrating the precarity of #Belonging when #A11Y is ambiguously provided.
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2/6 We spent some time thinking through implications of shared work: me as a #VisionImpaired academic & @priscilariffo employed at the time to bridge #WorkplaceInaccessibility. We decided to write our reflections, and offer our shared account.
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1/6 It was great to team up with @priscilariffo to write this paper just published #OpenAccess in Higher education. https://t.co/1GtbQta03h foregrounding accessibility within #EDI.
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Higher Education - The purpose of this paper is to foreground accessibility as a necessary aspect of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). We go about this by highlighting shared experiences of...
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"Voting remains a fundamentally visual exercise." https://t.co/wMhjPSmh6P Which i sense will remain while this #AssesstiveTechnology to achieve #A11Y is thought to uphold democratic rights.
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Kate Healey is using a device that means she will not have to ask polling station staff for help.
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Brilliant to have published another paper researching #InherentRequirements or #CompetenceStandards with @TimCorcoran10 & Trevor McCandless. https://t.co/32K1VRVLyQ
#OpenAccess in @SJDResearch
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Very fortunate to be a part of this and looking forward to ongoing collaborations to push #EDI in our schools and universities towards more #Inclusive #Orientations.
We hosted a wonderful conference on Impact for Educational Equity in collaboration with the University of Southampton. It was great to learn from diverse stakeholders, including scholars, practitioners, and local/international policymakers. @EPL_EdUHK @SotonEd
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Hey @sainsburys a delivery order for this morning not received. neither can get access to your phone line. is this what passes for #CustomerService in 2024?
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Hey @thetrainline have run into a bug with v315 of ios app. using Voiceover, I can't click on buttons to receive train and transfer info when buying a ticket. Nor could access edit field when trying to give feedback within the app. pls fix? #A11y
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After 30 years since new music @billyjoel I had anticipated you were going to clear up a few things, such as what a real estate novelist is and how it consumes so much of one’s time. @Beernuts_gough
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Hey @BluestarHQ left a beige beanie with the word London on front on the number 1 from Winchester to Southampton around 8pm on Friday evening. Seated upstairs. any chance it's been handed in?
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One more thing. In order to celebrate my 30 years in Hip -Hop, and 50 years of Hip-Hop...after many requests...I've only bloody gone and got it remastered for you https://t.co/gj2r9uRyOL
#Enjoy.
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