This fellowship builds upon my award-winning doctoral research, which focused on understanding the distinctive challenges and enablers disabled and neurodivergent girls and young women experience in doing what they want to do, being who they want to be, and becoming who they want to become. Through presentations, training, knowledge exchange, and publications, this fellowship will allow me to deepen, co-design, and share knowledge about the educational experiences and multi-faceted inequalities faced by disabled girls and young women in local (Scotland) and international settings, and exchange this learning with a wide range of audiences, including disabled girls, academics, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public. In doing so, underpinned by my substantial track record of research and activism in the areas of disability and community development, this fellowship aims to contribute to policy and wider cultural change through the centring of lived experience, as well as further advance inclusive, creative and interdisciplinary research practices with a specific focus on the lives of disabled girls and young women.
To share my research findings and creative approaches by extending co-creative practices with disabled girls to include policy makers, activists, and researchers towards personal, social, and cultural transformation. My aspiration for this fellowship is that it will catalyse the next steps in my career trajectory as a creative and inclusive research leader in the areas of disability, gender, and youth.
Reach out to people for help in thoughtful ways that recognise the different support that people in your networks may be able to give according to their commitments and experiences. Lots of things can be helpful, from proof reading to big picture strategy, and everything in between. The research office at your school/college/university is a key resource, build relationships with the knowledgeable and skilled professional services staff that work there.
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