Let's Talk Disability: Caring for someone with a disability
Download MP3Hosted by Professor Jackie Carter with guests from the Alliance Business School (AMBS) - Michelle Carter, Lead for EDI in AMBS and Gill Bibby, Content and Communications Officer in AMBS.
This episode discusses the experiences of a carer for someone with a disability. We discuss the need to think intersectionally and be creative in exploring solutions to support our colleagues with caring responsibilities for disabled family members.
This episode discusses the experiences of a carer for someone with a disability. We discuss the need to think intersectionally and be creative in exploring solutions to support our colleagues with caring responsibilities for disabled family members.
Creators and Guests
Host
Professor Jackie Carter
Academic EDI Lead for Disability, member of the Shaw Trust Power 100 for 2023. Author of Work Placements, Internships & Applied Social Research. Prof of Statistical Literacy. FaCSS, NTF. 1-in-20 Women in Data. Late Bloomer. @GM4Women
Guest
Professor Michelle Carter
Michelle Carter is a Professor of Information Systems in the Alliance Manchester Business School’s Division of Management Sciences and Marketing at the University of Manchester. Michelle earned her PhD in Management (Information Systems) from Clemson University, SC. Her research focuses on information technologies’ involvement in identity and social change, factors that shape IT usage behaviors, and information systems management. Michelle's work has appeared in MIS Quarterly, the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, the Journal of Information Technology, as well as other journals, books, and conference proceedings. Michelle is co-Editor-in-Chief of AIS Transactions on Replication Research. She serves as DEI Director and a senior editor for MIS Quarterly. Michelle is a Distinguished Member – Cum Laude of the AIS. She is a past president of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Social Inclusion and previously chaired the AIS committee on diversity and inclusion. From 2021-2024, she served on the AIS Council as Vice President for Special Interest Groups and Colleges.
