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 […]
Tag Archives: Higher Education
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 […]
Finding My Niche Despite Chronic Illness
A few weeks into my first year as a Sociology PhD student, I started to notice intense pain after working out. I don’t know exactly when things changed, but I […]
Doing a PhD with “women’s problems”
Since I was thirteen my education was constantly interrupted by a certain ‘monthly visitor’. I’m now in the second year of my PhD in Modern History and my ‘lady bits’ […]
The headache & heartbreak of doing academia with chronic migraine
I’m a part-time PhD student, with a chronic illness and a family. I have a grant that pays my fees, but everything else I need to live on I must […]
Tell your MP: Cuts to Disabled Student Allowance affect us all (UK)
On 7th April 2014 the UK Government’s Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) announced changes to Disabled Students Allowance. This allowance – also known as the DSA – supports […]
Asking for Access After Declaring Disabled: An Interview Story
This week I was called to interview for a Research Council funding competition. The application was part of a last-minute marathon attempt to restart my PhD research this Autumn. This […]
