Reimagining HE Through Disabled Student Voices | Lauren Hamilton | TEDxArden University Manchester

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This talk shows how Higher Education can be reshaped by centring the lived experiences of disabled students. It highlights how traditional ideas about independence and resilience can create barriers and argues for learning environments that are designed with disabled students from the start. By treating students as partners and contributors, not as recipients of support, the talk shows how universities can build spaces that promote belonging, accessibility and shared ownership of learning. Lauren Hamilton is a Head of Department and an interdisciplinary researcher and academic with a background in Critical Disability Studies and Education. Lauren advocates for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of disability discourse with an emphasis on achieving universal inclusion and acceptance. With over ten years’ experience in higher education, specialising in inclusive pedagogy, accessibility, and widening participation practice both Laurens personal and professional identity is rooted

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