Life Academic: Ableism in The Academy
Life Academic: Ableism in The Academy
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Date: 7th March 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Lecture Theater 9, The Diamond
Description
Join Professor Janet Brown and Dr Sarah Hale, representatives of the University of Sheffield's Disability Staff Network, as they discuss their experiences of ableism in The Academy. Facilitated by Professor Caitlin Buck, this discussion will offer insight into the unique and challenging lives of women academics, with a particular focus on the intersection between ableism and sexism in The Academy and how this effects the everyday experience of academics who identify as women and disabled. If you have ever wanted to ask a professor about their experiences in academia, now is your chance to do so!
Facilitator
Professor Caitlin Buck She/Her
Caitlin is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield. Her expertise is developing and implementing statistical models and methods for use by archaeologists and palaeoenvironmental scientists. She was the co-founder of the Women Professor's Network at the University of Sheffield, which she continues to co-lead, and also chaired the Women's Staff Network (known as Women@TUoS) in 2014-15. She is a passionate champion for diversity and inclusion in academia, with considerable personal experience of the benefits of a range of so-called disadvantages, including gender and disability.
Panelists
Dr Sarah Hale
Dr Sarah Hale is Director of Education in the Department for Lifelong Learning and a Programme Director for the integrated foundation years that DLL provides for forty-five degree programmes in departments across the University. In 2015 Sarah was diagnosed with the autism spectrum condition formerly known as Asperger’s syndrome, and has spent the last six years attempting (and failing) to disentangle the impact of this on her academic career from the impacts of being female and being from a working class background.
Professor Janet Brown
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