Solving problems of inclusion and equalityWe finish our series interviewing disability journalists with John Pring, an experienced journalist who has been reporting on disability issues for nearly 20 years. John launched Disability News Service in April 2009 as an independent news agency to address the absence of in-depth reporting in both the specialist and mainstream media on issues that affect […]
Second in our series interviewing disability journalists is Dan Parton, editor of Learning Disability Today, the go-to magazine and website for learning disability news. Dan was kind enough to get to my questions on a busy day. As you’ll probably work out from the first question – this interview was conducted a few months ago […]
Kicking off our series on ‘voices in disability’ we have Frances Ryan! Frances Ryan writes for both for The Guardian and New Statesman as well as occasionally appearing on shows such as Sunday Politics, Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, and Radio 5Live. She has a doctorate in politics, exploring inequality in education. She tweets as @DrFrancesRyan and […]
So it’s time for another series of interviews. I’ve actually been working on this one for a while but schedules being schedules, it’s only now that we’ve reached the point were it has come together. This one is a little bit more subtle than previous series; when I interviewed the Minister for Disability, his […]
New Feature writer! Belinda has been doing legal framework training and consultancy in the adults’ social care sector for 15 years now. She blogs over at Schwehr on CARE and very kindly agreed to pop over and talk a little law with us – Joe For me, the decision to overhaul social care / […]
Bit of an announcement – AzuleJoe, has been chosen as one of the ten finalists for the Inclusive Prize (we’ve known for a little while, but the embargo has only just been lifted). We’d reached the semi-finals a few months ago, I didn’t do a post on it at the time for a […]
By habit, when I lack a good illustration for a post, or when it’s a particularly sad post I pick a open-licenced photo from flickr. Christine is one of our regular writers – she focuses on topics related to eating disorders. Obsessive behaviour. A need for systematising the unstructured. Difficulty processing emotions. Resistance to […]
Note from Joe – I get a lot of press releases in my inbox and I generally ignore them (my goal is content that is both original and timeless, and most of my readers are technical enough that I need pretty technical content; so press releases really aren’t the way to my heart) On […]
The idea of launching CommuniKate as the first open licensed AAC page set was conceived exactly here, when Kate and I had dinner after BETT2014 (you can read my opinions of the event itself here). So it was kind of nice that, exactly one year later, that Kate and I were invited to pitch CommuniKate […]
A bell rings out. I slowly come to. I have slept surprisingly well, all things considered. I reach out my hand to search for my phone and do a time check. 7.50am. The light stings my eyes, and there’s an uncomfortable warmth moistening the small of my back. This quilt sweats. I cast my eyes […]