Findings and reports

Reports

• Blue Badge Encounter survey summary report: A report presenting data from the first phase of my research, involving a survey of over 300 Blue Badge users

Presentations

• The ‘wrong’ kind of disabled: Exploring hierarchies and disability normativity through encounters in accessible parking spaces - presented at Leeds Disability Studies Conference, Leeds, 3 September 2024

• (Un)free parking: The impact of disabled people’s encounters with strangers in accessible parking spaces - poster presented at the University of Birmingham Graduate School Research Poster Competition, 19 June 2024

• "It's just so hostile": Exploring disabled people's encounters with strangers in accessible parking spaces - presented at the British Hate Crime Network PGR/ECR Discussion Group, online, 7th February 2024 (Watch the Youtube recording here) 

• The Politics of Parking: Mapping disabled people's encounters with strangers in accessible parking spaces - presented at the Disability Research Forum, online, 23rd January 2024

• Always on my mind: Using feminist and queer approaches while not researching gender or sexuality - presented at Positions: Gender, Sexuality & Feminism in Academia workshop, Birmingham, 7th December 2022

• The (re)construction of disability through encounters in accessible parking spaces - presented at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Newcastle, 30th August 2022

Media

• Disability News Service: Article on my survey results: Disabled people with blue badges ‘threatened, insulted and attacked’, survey shows, 11 January 2024

• Disability News Service: Article on "Anger over ‘clueless’ government’s ‘completely misguided’ awareness campaign" with quote from me about my research, 28 September 2023

• Social Policy Matters: Read my blog post on "Does the Blue Badge parking scheme really make life easier for disabled people?", 4 May 2023

• LAbled Podcast: In March 2023, I spoke to Alice and Lucy from LAbled disability podcast about my research and all things Blue Badge parking. Listen to the episode on Spotify here or read more about it on the LAbled website.

Publications

In progress - coming soon

Other work

• “Vulnerable” or Systematically Excluded? The Impact of Covid-19 on Disabled People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - 2022 paper published with Prof. Dina Kiwan in Social Inclusion 11(1), doi: 10.17645/si.v11i1.5671