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Video documentary of the DISCOVerY project
Video documentary of the DISCOVerY project
The voices of the investigators and participants
Poster presentations
Poster presentations
Presented at the 2024 Research and Innovation Festival at London South Bank University
Lived experience of pursuing a research career as a disabled researcher
Lived experience of pursuing a research career as a disabled researcher
Focus groups and interviews
A survey of the career progress of minoritised researchers following the COVID pandemic
A survey of the career progress of minoritised researchers following the COVID pandemic
Responses from 128 participants
The DISCOVerY Project exhibition held at the Borough Gallery, London South Bank University, on 27th and 28th November, 2024
The DISCOVerY Project exhibition held at the Borough Gallery, London South Bank University, on 27th and 28th November, 2024
We held an exhibition of the DISCOVerY project on 27th and 28th November, 2024 to broadcast the experiences of disabled researchers during the COVID pandemic. DISCOVerY is the acronym for our EDICa project to understand DISability and the impact of COVID-19 and EqualitY across different intersections. Held at the Borough Gallery of London South Bank University, the exhibition displayed 13 exhibits. These exhibits included artwork by the investigators and participants in the project, artwork that they created during the pandemic. The exhibition also featured audio-installations of the voices of participants expressing their challenges about career progress during the pandemic, drawings by participants during the focus groups and an art installation portraying the barriers to career progress among disabled researchers. Fifteen members of the public visited the exhibition, including students and staff at LSBU and research participants.
The experiences of disabled researchers during the COVID pandemic
The experiences of disabled researchers during the COVID pandemic
Under fragile covers
Under fragile covers
Nicole Brown
Installation with umbrellas, raindrops made of paper, and LED lights. The raindrops denote the barriers to career progress of disabled researchers, such as fixed-term contracts, lack of accessibility and competitiveness. The umbrellas denote the disabled researchers shielding themselves from the barriers
These were the days: coffee and covid
These were the days: coffee and covid
Nicole Brown
Interacting with others during the COVID pandemic involved video-conferencing over a cup of coffee or tea, whether it was an informal chat with a colleague or networking at online conferences
Participants' voices of the impact of the COVID pandemic on their career progress as researchers
Participants' voices of the impact of the COVID pandemic on their career progress as researchers
Artwork during the covid pandemic
Artwork during the covid pandemic
Rachel Grant
This is a photograph I took. During the pandemic. The beer is called Corona and the smashed glass symbolises triumph over the disease which left me with long term health issues
Yellow painting. This is a painting I did during the pandemic symbolising rays of sun. In March 2020 after I recovered from Covid there was a period of unseasonal hot weather
Black and white painting. This is a monochrome painting I painted during Covid to symbolise the monotony of the lockdowns
A self-isolation diary
A self-isolation diary
Preethi Premkumar
I decided to keep a self-reflection diary. As a psychologist, this introspection would fit very well with William Wundt’s (1897) concept of introspectionism. I thought this would be a piece of research in itself. But I did not get very far! But the diaries show how disorienting the discipline of staying within the four walls was.
Our Park - created by the Salford Creative Community
Our Park - created by the Salford Creative Community
Contributed by a participant in the DISCOVerY project
The Salford Creative Community shared their experiences of parks and woods during the Lockdown in the COVID pandemic through this art book
Portrait of my father
Portrait of my father
Nicki Martin
“I was not with my Dad when he died because I was following Boris Johnson’s pandemic lock down rules. If I saw Boris Johnson I would rip his head off.”
Artwork created by a participant during the focus group with disabled researchers
Artwork created by a participant during the focus group with disabled researchers
Joanna Krupa
This is a flow diagram of my attempts at career progress, punctuated by the 4 times I studied at university. Each degree qualification is denoted by a mortarboard
Artwork created by a participant during the focus group with disabled researchers
Artwork created by a participant during the focus group with disabled researchers
Anon
Career progress is a game of snakes and ladders. The snakes are they health challenges faced by disabled researchers, both before, during and after the pandemic, as they climb the ladder
A participant diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) during the pandemic
A participant diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) during the pandemic
Ifthekar, N. and Sivan, M. (2023)
Venous insufficiency and acrocyanosis in long COVID: dysautonomia - The Lancet
This pandemic, love
This pandemic, love
Written poetry accompanied by an audio recording of the poetry in the artist's voice set against a granular synthesis sampling to mimic a noisy environment, also composed by the artist
Reflections on the exhibition
Reflections on the exhibition
Messages written by visitors on a linen cloth
Conferences
Conferences
We are presenting our research at various conferences
Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum, Birmingham, 31st March to 2nd April 2025
ALTER Conference, Innsbruck, Vienna, 8th to 10th July 2025 (to be confirmed)
British Society for Psychology of Individual Differences, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16th May 2025 (to be confirmed)
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