Ben Whitburn

Associate Professor. disability studies; higher education; Inclusive ed; breakbeats. Views own.

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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? https://t.co/9skMzqFnv1

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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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1/3 Pleased to have published our 5th paper studying inherent requirements (competence standards) with @TimCorcoran10 & @Tremcc #OpenAccess enAccess in
StudiesInHigherEducation https://t.co/yRITGtXbdS

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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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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 https://t.co/hH0WEsoeKt

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@jvincent_tweets @priscilariffo @PriscillaRiffo Thank you JV

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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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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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"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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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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@DrJoannaT @GavinMoodie @molliedollin @lisamckennaLTU @TimCorcoran10 and we’re currently writing a book with @routledgebooks on reframing inherent requirements that we look forward to putting out in 2025.

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@gumussed Looking forward to it.

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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.

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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