Complexity in our Multiple Identities

This year's Annual Disability Lecture will be co-hosted by TORCH and the University of Oxford Equality and Diversity Unit on 1 June 2017. 

Disability is one among our many possible identities, but it is one that is often hidden, necessitating constant choices about whether and how to share information. Marie Tidball, Dan Holloway and Torø Graven, who all work for the University, share their individual approaches to disability in personal and professional spheres.

• Dr Torø Graven is a researcher who is investigating what happens when touch replaces vision as the dominant sense modality. She is a Norwegian who has moved to Oxford for the duration of her 2 year Marie Sklodowska-Curie Career Development Fellowship, and is currently based in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
• Dan Holloway is a performance poet, ultra marathon runner and Department Administrator at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford.
• Dr Marie Tidball has just been awarded one of TORCH’s Knowledge Exchange Fellowships.  She is currently a research associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Before completing her doctorate at Oxford, she worked as a journalism trainee at Channel 4 News and as  Policy and Legal Officer at Autism West Midlands.

The event will be chaired Dr Rebecca Surender (Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Advocate for Equality and Diversity, University of Oxford).

This will also be the launch for the Disability Narratives website, a research project to investigate the experiences of disabled staff at the University and share good practice on support.

Doors will open at 6pm, the event will start at 6.15pm.

There will be a drinks reception after the lecture.

You can view access information here.

If you have any access requirements, please get in touch with the organiser.

Please register for your seat here. 

This is a joint event arranged by TORCH and the Equality and Diversity Unit, as part of TORCH’s Humanities and Identities series.