The Disability Lectures Podcast
1) 2025 Disability Lecture: Building an Environment for All
Professor Sam Howison explores how an institution like Oxford University can build accessible environments, highlighting the complexities, evolving needs, and broad benefits of inclusive design. The e...Show More
2) 2024 Disability Lecture: Changing the disability narrative - from unseen to understood
Oxford and Harvard alumna Beth Kume-Holland shares her personal journey from Oxford undergraduate and researcher to award-winning CEO and international disability rights advocate. Disabled people mak...Show More
2024 Disability Lecture: Changing the disability narrative - from unseen to understood
59:23 | May 16th, 2024
3) Disability Lecture 2024: Changing the disability narrative - from unseen to understood
Oxford and Harvard alumnus Beth Kume-Holland shares her personal journey from Oxford undergraduate and researcher to award-winning CEO and international disability rights advocate. Disabled people ma...Show More
Disability Lecture 2024: Changing the disability narrative - from unseen to understood
59:23 | May 16th, 2024
4) 2023 Disability Lecture: Going beyond standards in technology and accessibility
Dr Jessica Boland shares her experiences as a hard-of-hearing/deaf academic in science and technology, and her passion for improving accessibility in higher education. Oxford University Annual Disabil...Show More
2023 Disability Lecture: Going beyond standards in technology and accessibility
1:03:07 | Jun 14th, 2023
5) 2022 Disability Lecture: Hands Off - navigating unwanted touch, consent and disability
Dr Amy Kavanagh delivers the 2022 Annual Disability Lecture 2022 Disability Lecture Dr Amy Kavanagh - Hands Off: Navigating unwanted touch, consent and disability From Dr Kavanagh's introduction: ...Show More
2022 Disability Lecture: Hands Off - navigating unwanted touch, consent and disability
1:18:05 | Aug 23rd, 2022
6) 2021 Disability Lecture: The intersections of disability, science and academia
Dr Hamied Haroon explores the intersections of disability, science and academia. All views expressed in the lecture are the speaker’s own. To download a transcript of the 2021 Disability Lecture, use...Show More
2021 Disability Lecture: The intersections of disability, science and academia
1:13:19 | Jul 6th, 2021
7) 2021 Annual Disability Lecture
Dr Hamied Haroon explores the intersections of disability, science and academia. All views expressed in the lecture are the speaker’s own.
8) #WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut - University of Oxford 2020 Annual Disability Lecture
Dr Kate West, a neurodivergent student-turned-academic, reflects on the neurotypical University.
#WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut - University of Oxford 2020 Annual Disability Lecture
1:21:08 | Jun 1st, 2020
9) 2020 Disability Lecture: #WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut
Dr Kate West, a neurodivergent student-turned-academic, reflects on the neurotypical University. To download a transcript of the 2020 Disability Lecture, use the following link(s): Transcript - PD...Show More
10) 2019 Disability Lecture: The Triple Cripples... creators, educators, rule breakers, and the personification of empowerment
Jay Abdullahi and Kym Oliver, a team of two black disabled women, reclaim the word ‘cripple’ in their fight against three layers of discrimination. This year’s University of Oxford Disability Lecturer...Show More