Position/Status

Assistant Professor in Inclusive Education

E-mail Address

ab3203@cam.ac.uk

Qualifications

• 2020 – PhD - University of Southampton
• 2016 – BA Hons. - Durham University

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Affiliate Member of the Vision Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research (VICTAR), University of Birmingham
• Member of the Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) Advisory Board for Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR)

Profile

Dr Angharad Butler-Rees joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in Inclusive Education in August 2024. Her primary research interests are in inclusive and equitable education, educational transitions, disability and socio-economic disadvantage.

Prior to her current role, Angharad worked as a Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham (2023-2024) where she undertook research into vision impairment education. She has also worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick (2020-2023) on the 'Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes of Disabled Young People in England' study, and as Co-I on 'The Intersectional Effects of Disability and Social Class on Early Adulthood'. Both studies investigate disabled young people's post-16 transitions and the range of mechanisms through which adolescent disability is translated into socio-economic disadvantage later in life. Angharad has also worked at the Centre for Research in Inclusion at the University of Southampton (2019-2020) and in the charity sector, working for Leonard Cheshire Disability and UCAN Productions (a creative arts cooperative for blind and partially sighted young people).

Academic Area/Links

• Member of Knowledge, Power and Politics (KPP)

Research Topics

• Inclusive Education and Pedagogy
• Disabled teachers and students
• Intersections of disability with social class
• Vision Impairment
• Longitudinal and Life Course Research

Current Research Project(s)

• Media Engagement for Wellbeing in the Sight Loss Community: A Preliminary Model for Research and Intervention (British Academy, February 2024 – October 2025)
• The Intersectional Effects of Disability and Social Class on Early Adulthood (British Academy, November 2022 – October 2024)

Teaching

• Postgraduate
  • Course Coordinator, MPhil Part-time Research Methods Strand
  • Research Methods (MEd/MPhil)
  • Primary PGCE
  • Secondary PGCE
  • I am currently accepting PhD and EdD applications in the areas of participatory research; disability; inclusive education; social class; children and young people in care; widening participation and educational transitions.

Principal and Recent Publications

Butler-Rees., A (2023) ‘My Existence is Resistance’: An analysis of disabled people’s everyday lives as an enduring form of resistance. In S. Hughes (Ed.) Critical Geographies of Resistance, London: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Chatzitheochari, S. & Butler-Rees, A. (2022) Disability, Social Class, and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People's School Experiences, Sociology 57(5), 1156 – 1174.

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, 26(4), 483-496.

Butler-Rees, A. & Hadley, B. (2022) Exploring the role of the disabled body as a vehicle and art-form within anti-austerity protest. In Z. McNeill and M. Zebrachi (Eds) Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements. London: 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/Bristol University Press.

Lewthwaite, S., Coverdale, A. & 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. (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. & Robinson, N. (2020) Encountering precarity, uncertainty and everyday anxiety as part of the postgraduate research journey, Emotion, Space and Society, 37, 100743

Butler-Rees, A. (2017) Vulnerability in Resistance, Gender, Place & Culture 24(9), 1368-9.

Pain, R., Heslop, J., Ormerod, E., Butler-Rees, A., Crawshaw, H., Davisson, H., Dawson, L., Fairhurst, M., Galin, M., Harman, D., Holloway, E., James, T., Liu, A., Chau, C., Qing, H., Read, F., Smith, M., Somerset, C., Sporik, E. & Turner, I. (2016) DISPOSAL: The Housing Crisis in Horden’s Numbered Streets. Durham University: Centre for Social Justice and Community Action.