What is it about?
A personal account of the extra effort and additional pressures that I face in higher education due to my visible disability status. I also address issues of disclosing 'secondary' impairments and issues I have faced with Disabled student support and direct payments.
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Why is it important?
My paper highlights the difficulties disabled people face in achieving at the same level as their peers due to structural and policy issues which do not work for disabled people, despite them being held up as systems which enable equality and access.
Perspectives
Writing this article was both cathartic and challenging at times. I have been surprised, pleased and disappointed that so many people in so many different countries have contacted me to say they can relate so closely to the issues I have described.
Stephanie Hannam-Swain
Sheffield Hallam University
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This page is a summary of: The additional labour of a disabled PhD student, Disability & Society, September 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2017.1375698.
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