Enabled in Academia
A podcast aimed at disabled, chronically ill and/or neurodivergent students and early career researchers. I'll be chatting with academics and students from different career stages about how they thrive in academia and disability. We'll discuss institutional and personal challenges, and hopefully provide some insights on how to cope with these.
Enabled in Academia
Becca Jiggens - legal disability rights activist and TWIP founder, access to work scheme application expert
in this episode i had the pleasure of interviewing Becca jiggens who is a TWIP company founder ( the work inclusion project ) who help academics apply for the access to work scheme to for example travel to work co with ease this company deals with over 50 universities and has amassed over 40 employees .
Becca is also a prominent legal and disability focusing academic from the university of Leeds , we discuss some of her published works