Disability as a driver of change: depathologising the university
What if disability shaped how we think about knowledge and power? Professor Dan Goodley explores how universities can move beyond labels and rethink belonging.
What happens when we centre disabilities as a driving subject of intellectual, personal and political inquiry?
Professor Dan Goodley FBA unpacks depathologisation in the university and the impact it can have on how we understand knowledge, power, and belonging.
Drawing on critical disability studies, this talk challenges the pathologising assumptions embedded in higher education and asks who benefits when disability is treated as a problem. Moving disability from margin to centre, it explores how depathologisation can transform universities from institutions that manage differences into communities that reimagine society.
Rather than a problem to be solved, disability becomes an opportunity for social change.
Credits
- Speaker: Professor Dan Goodley (Director of iHuman at the University of Sheffield)
- Video Production: Haych Digital
- Special thanks to The British Academy for permission to host this content on the University of Sheffield Player