Disability Histories, Disability Futures by https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF Join us on Dec 15 for a virtual discussion on disability history and disability futures with Christina Lee and Len Demetriou. Put your questions here and vote for the best questions by upvoting them. Speakers will answer the most voted for questions in the session! en-us 2020-11-23 11:59:34 UTC 2020-12-20 23:45:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/966043357 If you were to prioritise one change for a better disability future, what would it be?]]> 2020-11-27 17:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/966043357 https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/967930211 How to better advocate for individuals with disabilities as a student if you're an ally?]]> 2020-11-29 06:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/967930211 https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/974857351 What do you think is an important fact from the history of disability that everyone should know?]]> 2020-12-01 09:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/974857351 https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/977891368 Has the pandemic inspired any changes in your research (other than having to address practicalities of access to resources/patients), e.g. which topics you want to work on more?]]> 2020-12-01 22:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/977891368 https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/1006030811 How should the university be using the internet even better, beyond organising events online, to support students/staff/patients with disability?]]> 2020-12-10 13:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/1006030811 https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/1006454874 I am a disabled PhD student and I have had to fight for my entire life, throughout my education and my journey towards a career as a researcher, for accommodations and reasonable adjustments. I have watched many of my disabled friends and colleagues drop out of education, leave academia, or become unemployed because employers and universities refuse to make adjustments such as e.g. working from home. Now during the pandemic these adjustments have been made for abled people with the possibility that practices like working from home or studying remotely will continue because employers and education providers see the benefits of them. Disability futures have been held back for so long by bigoted attitudes such as these, which are perpetuated by the ableism shown by UK society and politicians, and I am furious. How can allies encourage employers and education providers to to do better and make adjustments (e.g. universal design)?]]> 2020-12-10 15:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/1006454874 https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/1019718810  
Is there anything you have found unexpectedly helpful? By that, I mean is there something (a method or a piece of technology or anything really) which you find helpful in your work which other people might not expect to make a difference? 
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How can universities and departments be proactive in making themselves accessible rather than leaving it all up to the individual to push for? 
]]> 2020-12-15 13:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/1019719347 https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/1019979917 When energy is a limiting factor in what disabled people do, how can we make time to do activism and awareness-raising?]]> 2020-12-15 14:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/adriannakepinska/DHDF/wish/1019979917