Dr Felicity McGeown
Webmaster
Felicity McGeown is the Webmaster for the Society. She is an Anthropologist and early modern historian. Her research is interdisciplinary with a mix of historical and contemporaneous research. Her research is split into two specific areas, the first explores performance, performativity and identity for disabled people within the nineteenth century and the second involves disability and accessibility within higher education.
She is a Consultant with Disabled Students UK (DSUK) and has co-authored Going Back is Not a Choice (2022) and Improving the experience of disabled PhD students in STEM (2022) with DUSK. DSUK has thrice been recognised as one of the most influential disabled-led organisations in the UK. Their Annual Disabled Student Survey is the largest survey into accessibility in UK Higher Education and paints a picture of the disabled student experience at various Higher Education Providers.
She recently collaborated on research at the University of Warwick with support from UKCGE for the Mitigation and Adjustment for Doctoral Education (MADE) project. This research report explored how Postgraduate Research (PGR) students and staff understood the reasonable adjustments and mitigating circumstances policies and processes and identified barriers to inclusion and opportunities for improvement institutionally and across the higher education sector.
She welcomes enquiries on topics of disability from the nineteenth century to the present day and welcomes opportunities to engage with a variety of audiences on disability related topics.