A higher proportion of non-disabled academic staff are in the highest salary range of over £50,000 than disabled academic staff.
Maltesers might be trying hard, but there is something in the scripts that makes me queasy, an uneasiness echoed by disabled academic Dr Alison Wilde.
In reality, Roy's "offence" to the court was an article in May last year calling attention to the incarceration of a severely disabled academic called Saibaba, a lecturer in English at Delhi University who had been kidnapped by the police and imprisoned for his "anti-national activities".
What these adverts also do is highlight an interesting truth; most disabled activists and academics can spot from a wheelchair-mile away when something is made to educate others – ie the non-disabled – rather than to present us inclusively as three-dimensional human beings.
They also searched for unlikely couples, prom queens, students with curious tastes in fashion, disabled teenagers, football players, academic superstars and same-sex couples.
The project is a partnership effort between disabled researchers, a disability support organisation and academic researchers in New Zealand.
Board officials hope that the plan will improve the academic performance of disabled students, most of whom lag far behind their peers.
In a two-and-half hour session involving academics, food banks administrators, disabled groups and employment service professionals, the select committee repeatedly heard the sanctions regime had changed over the last two years, creating a punitive culture of fear – especially amongst the disabled.
For recruiting experts in the study the investigators will contact international professional organizations and societies, disabled people's organizations and individual academics and peers asking them to participate in the study and nominate additional experts for participation.
– Severe Disability: (Conscious but disabled).
