Clare Hall Official Fellow Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson has edited a new book, Inaccessible Access: Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation (2024), which is illustrated by Clare Hall Life Member and former MPhil student Indigo Ayling.

About the book

Inaccessible Access addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It takes an ethnographic approach to understand the social, environmental, communicative, and epistemological barriers that people with disabilities confront and embody throughout the course of their learning and living in higher education institutions and in research.

The book is presented by a neurodiverse, disabled, and non-cis cohort of authors, all of whom acknowledge a continuum of (in)access that is available to each contributor contingent on their inherent intersectionalities and alterities. The authors and editors of this book foreground the work that is yet to be done on recognizing the value of non-normative ways of approaching, being in, and knowing research and higher education. This is particularly an issue when disablity-centered epistemologies are sidelined in confrontation with institutional norms, even within existing discourses concerning equality and alterity.

Link to purchase on Amazon.