[community] Fwd: Your help finding a disability studies-related PhD candidate

Tue Feb 2 12:53:38 UTC 2021

Interested in PhD studies?

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From: "Graham Pullin (Staff)" <G.Pullin at dundee.ac.uk>
Date: February 2, 2021 at 5:23:44 AM EST
Subject: Your help finding a disability studies-related PhD candidate

hello disability studies friends

I hope this finds you well in such strange times.

We have a funded PhD post as part of a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities project 'Imagining technologies for Disability futures'
itdfproject.org

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/wellcome-trust-phd-studentship-opportunity-co-creating-augmentative-communication-futures/?p128447<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.findaphd.com%2Fphds%2Fproject%2Fwellcome-trust-phd-studentship-opportunity-co-creating-augmentative-communication-futures%2F%3Fp128447&data=04%7C01%7Cjtreviranus%40ocadu.ca%7C857b377772c04d40ea2a08d8c764951c%7C06e469d12d2a468fae9b7df0968eb6d7%7C0%7C0%7C637478582241968465%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=md2tqaAOqZc%2FolDZKvIn0B8ADTH4ic7Ss9Ux3wYUqaI%3D&reserved=0>

But, beyond posting on FindaPhD and tweeting this (with a disappointing response), I am not sure about how to reach a not-yet-disability-studies-researcher audience. Can you help please?

The research is an exciting meeting of disability studies, augmentative communication and interaction design
and so it could suit a candidate approaching it from any of these directions.

At its heart is working with people with Complex Communication Needs as our 'mentors'* - as more-than-participants, as co-researchers - to explore alternative futures for AAC with us.

By 'alternative futures' I suppose we mean something other than brain-to-speech implants, as predicted in the recent UK film Peter: The Human Cyborg. Which might involve a mix of low-tech (even paper-based) and high-tech AAC. And also a focus on social interaction and co-constructing conversation over completely independent speech output.

*: I am attaching an earlier call for disabled mentors in the meantime - although Darryl Sellwood has helpfully pointed out that this is not clear enough about what we are asking and offering in return. So I am working on a better one...

Please pass this on to your networks.

The post will probably best suit someone in the UK or wanting to do a PhD in the UK. So please do send it 'back' to people you know near there (here)!

And thank you any further thoughts
and for your time, help and support!

take care and
all warmest wishes
graham

Graham Pullin
Professor of Design and Disability
DJCAD University of Dundee
01382 386531
g.pullin at dundee.ac.uk<mailto:g.pullin at dundee.ac.uk>

imagining technologies for Disability futures
https://itdfproject.org/<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitdfproject.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cjtreviranus%40ocadu.ca%7C857b377772c04d40ea2a08d8c764951c%7C06e469d12d2a468fae9b7df0968eb6d7%7C0%7C0%7C637478582241978430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=6XJ0LOada7JGNPYBtX%2BFC%2Bzzbwq5qQSQRctlsvZb6Ls%3D&reserved=0>
(PhD post available related to augmentative communication here<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.findaphd.com%2Fphds%2Fproject%2Fwellcome-trust-phd-studentship-opportunity-co-creating-augmentative-communication-futures%2F%3Fp128447&data=04%7C01%7Cjtreviranus%40ocadu.ca%7C857b377772c04d40ea2a08d8c764951c%7C06e469d12d2a468fae9b7df0968eb6d7%7C0%7C0%7C637478582241978430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=7n1NmUuUlODSBIuqufgBI9IV9DlkFQnJoLDsgqMyMYY%3D&reserved=0>)

THIS Institute Senior Fellow (including article for Domus<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk%2Fdisability-design-and-healthcare-improvement-research&data=04%7C01%7Cjtreviranus%40ocadu.ca%7C857b377772c04d40ea2a08d8c764951c%7C06e469d12d2a468fae9b7df0968eb6d7%7C0%7C0%7C637478582241978430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ppArMme5%2BQF87MItgYz7ZOAYocfyENHwbI7pn25b1Ng%3D&reserved=0>)
https://blog.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/disability-design-and-healthcare-improvement-research<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk%2Fdisability-design-and-healthcare-improvement-research&data=04%7C01%7Cjtreviranus%40ocadu.ca%7C857b377772c04d40ea2a08d8c764951c%7C06e469d12d2a468fae9b7df0968eb6d7%7C0%7C0%7C637478582241988375%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=OLC3qfw3wf%2BVzWHxWXM9IGISMwntk5lCprv9i9fwIno%3D&reserved=0>

Hands of X at V&A Dundee
www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/exhibitions/hands-of-x<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vam.ac.uk%2Fdundee%2Fexhibitions%2Fhands-of-x&data=04%7C01%7Cjtreviranus%40ocadu.ca%7C857b377772c04d40ea2a08d8c764951c%7C06e469d12d2a468fae9b7df0968eb6d7%7C0%7C0%7C637478582241988375%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=5bd6Egqe%2BOmHjYrbrlbljpfwSFPrT7YtwDAmIToy%2BjE%3D&reserved=0>

Design meets disability (Japanese edition in press)
mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-meets-disability<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmitpress.mit.edu%2Fbooks%2Fdesign-meets-disability&data=04%7C01%7Cjtreviranus%40ocadu.ca%7C857b377772c04d40ea2a08d8c764951c%7C06e469d12d2a468fae9b7df0968eb6d7%7C0%7C0%7C637478582241998330%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=0FWssjHU3oKPEbFXdnfGyJe%2FsmWuj4D%2Fcp59uD9NXcY%3D&reserved=0>

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