Angharad Butler-Rees
I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, working alongside Dr Stella Chatzitheochari on the Leverhulme study Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes of Disabled Young People in England. Previously, I have worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Inclusion at the University of Southampton, where I undertook research into digital accessibility. Prior to this, I undertook my doctoral studies within the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. As part of my doctoral studies, I researched disability activism in response to austerity utilising both participatory and biographical methods.
I have a longstanding interest in disability rights, social justice and inclusion. I have previous research experience of working with various disability charities and advocacy organisations, including UCAN Productions, the National League of the Blind and Disabled (NLBD) and Leonard Cheshire Disability.
Teaching
SO259 Disability, Inequality and the Life Course - Module Convenor (2020 - Present)
Publications
Butler-Rees, A. 2023. ‘‘My Existence is Resistance’: An analysis of disabled people’s everyday lives as an enduring form of resistance’ in Hughes, S (ed.) Critical Geographies of Resistance, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Butler-Rees, A. & Chatzitheochari, S. 2022. Giving a Socially Distanced Voice to Disabled Young People: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes Qualitative Longitudinal Study, International Journal of Social Research Methodology DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2022.2049517
Chatzitheochari, S and Butler-Rees, A. 2022. Disability, Social Class, and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People's School Experiences, Sociology
Butler-Rees, A and Hadley, B. 2022. ‘Exploring the role of the disabled body as a vehicle and art-form within anti-austerity protest’ in McNeill, Z and Zebrachi, M (ed.) Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements, Duke University Press.
Butler-Rees, A. 2021. There's No Place for Emotions in Academia: Dealing with the Increasing Pressures and Expectations of the Neoliberal Academy as a Disabled Scholar. In: Brown, N ed. Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education. Bristol: Policy Press.
Butler-Rees, A. 2020. My Existence is Resistance: Exploring spaces and forms of dsability activism in the United Kingdom during a time of austerity. PhD Thesis, University of Southampton.
Butler-Rees, A. and Robinson, N., 2020. Encountering precarity, uncertainty and everyday anxiety as part of the postgraduate research journey. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, 100743.
Lewthwaite, S., Coverdale, A. and Butler-Rees, A., 2020. Teaching accessibility in computer science and related disciplines: a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis protocol. Social Science Protocols, 3, 1-11.
Butler-Rees, A. 2017. Vulnerability in Resistance, Gender, Place & Culture, 24:9, 1368-1369.
