Building a network of diverse voices
Sexual violence disproportionately affects women with disabilities, who face barriers to reporting and accessing support because of the attitudes of care staff. Associate Professor Amy M. Russell works to change this by bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, communities and external partners to create solutions through the arts and humanities.
We thought ‘right, what can we do to highlight this slowness?’ and help deliver real change – because people with disabilities were telling us that they felt as if they were knocking on doors that said ‘open’ but were in fact very much closed.
—Professor Amy M. Russell
Read the full research storyImpact
- Collaboration: new network of researchers and partners to drive change in disability inclusion
- Health impact: tools for academics and practitioners to improve disability inclusion in sexual and reproductive health services
Key Information
- Major funders: Wellcome Trust, Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Disciplines: healthcare, social care, arts and humanities
- Investigators: Professor Amy M. Russell, Archie Wilson
Keywords: research culture, inclusion, learning disability, disability studies, social care, stigma, women's experiences, gender equality, World Health Organisation (WHO), global health, global impact, consent