Today we finish up my five part series interviewing the Disability spokespeople from the UK political parties. This final interview is with Mark Harper, Minister of State for Disabled People, and thus pretty far up the ladder. Mark became the Minister on 15th July 2014 having been in parliament since 2005. JR: You’ve very recently […]
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Kate Green, Shadow Minister for Disability
Third in our set of four political interviews Is Kate Green Member of Parliament for Stretford and Urmston and Shadow Minister for Disabilities. I’m keeping to a rule of ‘NO editorialising’ on these interviews so I’ll let the Q&A do the talking. I’m just back from a very international meeting of disability bloggers and it […]
Stephen Lloyd MP
Second in our set of four political interviews Is Stephen Lloyd the MP for Eastbourne and member of the Liberal Democrats… As with UKIP, the process of getting hold of the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson was somewhat confusing… Them: “Hello, Liberal Democrat press office.” Me: Hello, my name is Joe Reddington and I run a disability […]
Cllr Star Etheridge, disability spokesman for UKIP
We kick off our set of four political interviews with Cllr Star Etheridge, disability spokesman for UKIP, I spent some time in the last post being impressed with Star’s general efficiency and so today all I have to do is introduce her. Star is a solicitor who represents the Coseley East Ward in the West […]
Politics unusual: I interviewed the disability spokespeople for each of the four main parties, including the Minister of State for Disabled People Mark Harper
This is the first post in a five part series. The next post will be an interview with Cllr Star Etheridge who is the Disability Spokesman* for UKIP and next Monday’s will be an interview with Stephen Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne and Willingdon representing the liberal democrats. On that Wednesday, we’ll have Kate Green, MP for […]
Interview Paul Woodgate from the Wellcome Trust
Interview time! We got some nice feedback about the interview we did with the with EPSRC Assistive Sandpit organiser Anna Angus-Smyth – it turns out that my PhD and postdoc readers quite enjoy finding out what makes funders tick. So today we have an interview with Paul Woodgate from the Wellcome Trust- who I’m interviewing […]
Interview: Liat Ben-Moshe, Disability Incarcerated
Interview time! Liat Ben-Moshe is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo. She holds a PhD in Sociology with concentrations in Gender Studies and Disability Studies from Syracuse University. Her recent work examines the connections between prison abolition and deinstitutionalization in the fields of intellectual disabilities and mental health in the […]
Interview: Anna Angus-Smyth on Assistive Sandpits
Interview time! I’ve been hearing a lot about the EPSRC Assistive, Adaptive and Rehabilitative Technologies Sandpit – a research event that is attempting to get rising stars of assistive technology all into the same place for a week in September to see what ideas spring up. More than one of you mailed in to tell […]
Interview: Ian Thompson, Liberator Managing Director
Following on from interviews we did recently with Paraclimbing World Champion Fran Brown, disability sex champion Tuppy Owens, and especially, AssistiveWare CEO, David Niemeijer, we now present Ian Thompson, Managing Director of Liberator. Liberator have long been a stalwart of the AAC world. According to their website they produce communication aids that: “support a wide […]
Interview: Tuppy Owens, specialist in sex and disability
Following on from the interview we did recently with Paraclimbing World Champion Fran Brown, and then David Niemeijer, Founder and CEO of AssistiveWare, we have a special one today…. Tuppy Owens is a qualified sex therapist and the founder of Outsiders, which supports disabled people to find partners. She also runs the Sex and Disability […]