Remembering the light
Please note that the following post involves candid discussion of grief, and the current UK situation for disabled people. Some links click through to discussions of DWP-related suicide. It ends […]
Author Archives: phdisabled
On the dearth of disabled access information in philosophical events
Out of all the conference and workshop announcements in philosophy that you see in any given month, how many mention what access arrangements, if any, are in place to permit […]
PhDisappeared For a Year
I have tried so many times to articulate the reasons why this blog fell silent; to explain why the energies expended over the year were not expended in the […]
Get Help: How the myth of self-sufficiency fails PhD students with mental illness
Recently a tankard of ink, both physical and virtual, has been spilled on the topic of depression and suicide. A significant portion of this, particularly on Twitter, was focused on […]
A Reflection on Chronic Illness and Graduate School
I originally wrote the post below in June 2011. I had finished defending my PhD in English Literature in the fall of 2010 and I was depressed, in pain, and […]
We Need to Talk About Student Mental Health More, Not Less
The hullaballoo over the increase in takeup of student mental health services has a disturbing undertone. Alan Percy’s recent Guardian article on the subject calls for a “nuanced” approach […]
Help the NUS Support Disabled & Chronically Ill Postgraduate Applicants (UK)
We are delighted to tell you that Aisling Gallagher from the NUS’s Disabled Student’s Committee is putting together a guide to support disabled and chronically ill students through the application […]
Event Organizers: Give Access Information Up Front. Please?
It’s sometimes unclear exactly what small, concrete steps can be taken that might serve to improve, drastically or otherwise, the experience of chronically ill and disabled (PhD) students. We think […]
Disabled Student Allowance & PhD-Specific Doings: A Resource for Self-Advocacy
The first time I went through the UK’s Disability Needs Assessment process to secure Disabled Students Allowance for a PhD, it took four months and the production of a […]
Student (Mental Health) Problems are “Real” Problems
This post comes from Melonie Fullick (@qui_oui) who writes a regular column on the Canadian Post-Secondary Education (PSE) system at University Affairs. While this post is from December 2012, it’s […]
