Disability rights and robotics: Being there without being there

Savage, Sophie; Curran, Tillie

Abstract

We are Sophie and Tillie, and we worked together on the Disability Rights and Robotics project, at the University of the West of England, as co-researchers in a diverse group including disabled people, carers, students, and academics from social sciences and robotics (Disability Rights and Robotics, 2020). Some members of our team had both lived experience of disability and were involved in teaching, learning and research. Sophie is one such member.

The project has included hours of video conversations, so we based this chapter on an auto-transcribed online conversation, in a similar spirit to Mann’s and Mann’s (2018) text message conversation. From this point I, Sophie, will refer to myself as ‘me’ and offer a narrative on how my understanding of rights links to a transformative perspective on education.

• Online Publication Date: Jun 1, 2023
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2023
• Deposit Date: May 11, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 2, 2023
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Pages: 631
• Book Title: Research Handbook on Disability Policy
• Chapter Number: 52
• ISBN: 978 1 80037 364 8
• Keywords: Disability policy, Disability, lived experience, social policy, health and welfare
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10607221
• Publisher URL: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-disability-policy-9781800373648.html
• Contract Date: Feb 7, 2023