Louise Hickman
@_louhicky
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Dr Louise Hickman Disability + Tech + Work Research Associate @MCTDCambridge at University of Cambridge + PhD @UCSDComm Image by @shanfinnegan
Cambridge + London
Joined December 2010
I spoke w/ @KerryAMcInerney & @DrEleanorDrage at @TheGoodRobot1 podcast about the politics of captioning. There is mention of feminist labour and intimacy of access. I even managed a Darth Vader joke. Transcript of the episode below! .
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RT @patrickjbutler: Carer prosecuted for fraud and forced to pay back £20,000 in carer's allowance overpayments fights to clear his name af….
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George Henderson had to sell his home to repay nearly £20,000, years after ticking wrong box on carer’s allowance form
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RT @BBCNewsnight: “When you're not perceived by other people and your social needs are so deprived…you don’t actually know you exist”. Alex….
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RT @jeremycorbyn: In 1945, a Labour government inherited an economy ravaged by WW2. They built the NHS & the welfare state. Crises are not….
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RT @silvesterldn: This is the next Post Office scandal. Vulnerable people being prosecuted for not paying their TV licence under a fast-tra….
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Cases of vulnerable individuals being prosecuted for not paying the BBC licence fee has led to concerned calls from MPs and campaigners
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The same applies to searches on accessibility. There is a lot of white noise, inaccuracy and much optimism that their recommendations work.
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RT @MCTDCambridge: There's still time to sign up for this @Cambridge_Fest event with hosted by our founder, @ObserverUK columnist John Naug….
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RT @DrFrancesRyan: “It is easy to dismiss the dangers of a “slippery slope” when it is not you who is at risk of falling down it.” . My col….
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Everyone deserves the right to a good death. Yet fears disabled people have about being coerced into euthanasia are justified, writes Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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RT @annalandre: Are you an academic or student that works with interviews or focus groups, and uses paid transcription services? Please con….
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pleased to discover another organisation working on the politics of subtitles in the UK.
Just something that came to our mind while reading today's news. For more context, please see the link in the comments.
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Another signal boost for the AAT team: disability-led organisation working on the provision of accessibility. I've just donated some funds!.
🚨Help save AAT!. We post this with heavy hearts. Our future beyond March hangs in the balance, and we're crowdfunding for our survival. Please help us keep AAT alive . #SaveAAT #DisabilityJustice #Disabled
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Looking forward to more magic by @sarahchander and by magic, I mean all the hard work!.
1 - A (very late) professional update:. I have moved on from my role at @edri to work at the Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice (@Equinoxrji), a queer, people of colour-led organisation working to advance justice for racialised people in Europe.
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RT @sarahchander: 1 - A (very late) professional update:. I have moved on from my role at @edri to work at the Equinox Initiative for Racia….
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https://www.equinox-eu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/EQUINOXV2.mp4 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice is a people of colour-led initiative working to advance rights and justice for all people in...
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Behind the scenes, Academic Audio Transcription supports the knowledge production of disability culture and more. It is also a disability-led organization!.
🚨Help save AAT!. We post this with heavy hearts. Our future beyond March hangs in the balance, and we're crowdfunding for our survival. Please help us keep AAT alive . #SaveAAT #DisabilityJustice #Disabled
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RT @MCTDCambridge: MCTD researcher @_louhicky has joined a new project led by @NoortjeMarres at @uniofwarwick . ➡️AI in the Street will exp….
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Dr Louise Hickman has joined a new project led by the University of Warwick as an associate researcher.
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It's lovely to climb out of the grant writing hole to see a new project coming into the world. It's quite a dream team!.
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RT @michael_muller: “I very much identify as a Luddite,” [Veena] Dubal said. “This doesn’t mean I am against technology. It means I am agai….
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This article echos Paul Hunt's letter to the Guardian in the early 1970s: "Disabled people have been singled out for particularly savage cutbacks in public expenditure.".
A cash-starved council is proposing disabled people be interned in care homes if their social care is “too costly”. This is a story of savage public funding cuts but also of which people society deems to matter. My col. in today’s @guardian
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RT @xinyun_c: My team is conducting a research study about a Sound Accessibility toolkit in VR for DHH people. We are looking for Unity VR….
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