Helen Bowes-Catton
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View article: ‘I Just Filled Out a Form’ Experiences of Doctoral Students with Disabilities, Long-Term Health Conditions and/or Additional Study Needs
‘I Just Filled Out a Form’ Experiences of Doctoral Students with Disabilities, Long-Term Health Conditions and/or Additional Study Needs Open
This paper reports on an empirical study at a public university in the UK. The project explored the lived experiences of doctoral students with disabilities, long-term health conditions, and/or additional study needs. Taking a critical dis…
View article: ‘This magical place’: Understanding BiCon 2008 as a heterotopic place-event
‘This magical place’: Understanding BiCon 2008 as a heterotopic place-event Open
In this article, I outline findings from a photo-elicitation study of a bisexual community event in the United Kingdom. Participants describe the event as taking place in ‘a separate world’, a ‘portable bubble’ reached by a symbolic journe…
View article: Talkin’ ’bout a revolution? From quiescence to resistance in the contemporary university
Talkin’ ’bout a revolution? From quiescence to resistance in the contemporary university Open
In discussing the events leading up to the resignation of the former Open University Vice Chancellor in April 2018, we focus on the enactment of a form of resistance against proposals for the university through a WhatsApp group, enabling r…
View article: 'Like a playground should be?' Experiencing and Producing Bi Subjectivities in Bisexual Space.
'Like a playground should be?' Experiencing and Producing Bi Subjectivities in Bisexual Space. Open
Much recent work on bisexual subjectivities has taken a discourse analytic approach to exploring how bisexual identity is discursively produced as paradoxical, and why it is so difficult to articulate a culturally intelligible bisexual sub…