CW: This episode contains mentions of cancer diagnosis andincurable cancer.

Thank you to the wonderful Professor Jackie Carter forcoming on the show! Jackie is a professor emerita from the University of Manchester, where she was a professor in statistical literacy.

She is also the host and founder of the University of Manchester’s Let’s Talk Disability Podcast. This show works on turning the feedback of disabled employees and researchersinto actionable change through collaboration with senior staff members.

In this episode, we discuss Jackie’s working-class heritage,her unconventional route into professorship, and how an acquired disability changed, and continues to change, the trajectory of her working life and activism.

Links referenced in this episode (all text is clickable and will take you to the relevant link):

Listen to the Let’s Talk Disability Podcast

Donate to Jackie’s fundraiser supporting brain cancerresearch

Read ‘Practitioner, Professor, Researcher, Reformer’, abook written by Jackie Carter and Linda Baines sharing women’s atypical stories in higher education.

Learn about Jackie’s Culture Shift Award

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