Let's Talk Disability Ep 8 with Laura McLeod and Claire Alexander
Hosted by Professor Jackie Carter, this episode features Laura McLeod (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/laura.mcleod), Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Social Sciences and Claire Alexander, Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. Laura explains her experience of being a deaf academic and the challenges she faces in order to get the support she needs to do her job and her research.
Claire and Laura discuss ways that the school can assist disabled academics navigate the extra administrative burden of being disabled and their thoughts for future training for senior staff within the school.
Claire and Laura discuss ways that the school can assist disabled academics navigate the extra administrative burden of being disabled and their thoughts for future training for senior staff within the school.
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
Laura McLeod
Laura is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. She works broadly in the areas of gender, feminism, security and peacebuilding in post-conflict contexts. Much of her focus has been on the United Nations Security Council's Women, Peace and Security agenda, activities around it and its implementation within the United Nations and former Yugoslavia, in particular Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Guest
Professor Claire Alexander
Claire is the Head of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester. She has researched and published on race, ethnicity, youth and migration in the UK for over thirty years. She is a member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). Claire was Editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power between 2011 and 2018. She is on the editorial board of Ethnic and Racial Studies and Whiteness and Education. Claire is a Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Active Communities Network. She is a former Vice-Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation and the Runnymede Trust.
