News and updates

Below you can find the latest news about the Politics of Parking project. Click on each news item to expand and read more about the update. I will also be sharing these through regular email updates.

3 September 2024: Leeds Disability Studies conference presentation

I attended Leeds Disability Conference and presented on my emerging findings, focussing especially on how hierarchies and stereotypes of disability affect who is 'expected' in a Blue Badge bay, and how this stereotype is used to punish and divide us. My slides are publicly available to view here.

19 June 2024: Research Poster and Enquiring Minds exhibition

In June 2024, I took part in my university's Graduate School research poster competition - the poster is available to view online here.

In May, I also took part in an exhibition called "Enquiring Minds", aimed at turning postgraduate research into interactive exhibits for children between 7-11. My exhibit was a "Choose-your-own-adventure" story illustrating the physical and emotional energy that it takes to navigate public space as a disabled person. Here is a Tweet with photos of my exhibit.

9 February 2024: Recording of BSC Hate Crime Network presentation

On 7 Feb 2024, I presented my emerging findings from my survey and content analysis at the BSC Hate Crime Network discussion group. A captioned recording is available here on Youtube.

27 October 2023: Survey report is now available

The report summarising the findings from the survey with Blue Badge holders is now freely available - click here to download the full report.

1 July 2023: Politics of Parking survey closes

The survey for Blue Badge holders about encounters they have experienced closed today. I have had an amazing response with over 300 people completing the survey! I will not start analysing the data and will publish a report based on the data in Autumn 2023. Watch this space!

9 March 2023: Interview with LAbled Podcast

I spoke to the lovely 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.

6 January 2023: New Newsletter is out!

The latest Politics of Parking newsletter is now available here

21 October 2022: The Politics of Parking website is now live!

Please keep checking back here for regular updates about the project. I am currently awaiting ethics approval and will launch my survey once I have received it. I am hoping this will be in January or February 2023. If you want to take part, don't forget to sign up for project updates so you will be notified when the survey goes live.

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