The journey of Disabled women through UK Higher Education: using intersectionality to assess compounded inequality in a sexist and ableist system.

残疾妇女通过英国高等教育的旅程：利用交叉性来评估性别歧视和体能歧视体系中的复合不平等。

• 批准号: 2700487
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2700487
• 关键词: journey; Disabled; women; through; UK

Although there is a variety of research examining Disabled students' success and experienceat university, Kutscher and Tuckwiller (2019) note there is a lack of intersectionalexamination of disability and argue that research examining the intersections of disability,for instance, with gender and 'race' is urgently needed. Consequently, the proposed studywill examine the intersection of gender and disability in UK HE students and its impacts. Thisis because of the well evidenced and much researched disadvantages faced by women in UKHigher Education (HE), as students and staff; the higher prevalence of women with ChronicIllnesses (Dusenbery, 2018), and the issue of medical sexism making access to diagnoses(which are needed to "evidence" disability) difficult for women (Dusenbery, 2018).UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have a legal duty under the Equality Act 2010 andthe Public Sector Equality Duty to ensure that access to their services is not limited by any ofnine protected characteristics (inclusive of Disability and Gender). Furthermore, they havean ethical/moral duty to ensure equality of access, and this was incentivised when the UKgovernment introduced the "widening participation" agenda in the early 2000s (Connell-Smith and Hubble, 2018).There are issues beyond the academy that make this research particularly pressing. Hectoret al. (2020) argue that the support of Disabled students in the UK needs improvement, andhighlights an attainment gap for Disabled students (although they do not consider disabilityintersectionality with gender). This suggests a need for research to understand these issues.

虽然有各种各样的研究检查残疾学生的成功和大学的经验，Kutscher和Tuckwiller（2019）注意到缺乏对残疾的交叉检查，并认为研究残疾的交叉点，例如，与性别和“种族”是迫切需要的。因此，拟议的研究将探讨性别和残疾在英国高等教育学生及其影响的交叉点。这是因为在英国高等教育（HE）中，女性作为学生和工作人员所面临的种种不利因素得到了充分证明和大量研究;妇女慢性病患病率较高（Dusenbery，2018年），以及医疗性别歧视的问题，（需要“证明”残疾）（Dusenbery，根据《2010年平等法》和《公共部门平等义务》，英国高等教育机构（HEIs）有法律的义务，确保获得其服务的机会不受九个受保护特征中任何一个的限制。（包括残疾和性别）。此外，他们有伦理/道德责任确保平等获取，当英国政府在21世纪初引入“扩大参与”议程时，这一点得到了激励（Connell-Smith和Hubble，2018）。Hectoret等人（2020年）认为，英国对残疾学生的支持需要改善，并强调了残疾学生的成绩差距（尽管他们不认为残疾与性别的交叉性）。这表明需要进行研究以了解这些问题。