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Breaking out of the box: increasing the representation of disability within archive science (2024)
Journal Article
Pearson, A., Griffith, M., Rakoska, B., Harrison, C., Schuitema, K., & Taşcıoğlu, E. (2024). Breaking out of the box: increasing the representation of disability within archive science. Archival Science, 24(1), 101-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-023-09429-3

This article explores the value of archives in increasing the representation of disabled people in social policy, and research narratives, as well as building an identity of the Disabled People’s Movement beyond traditional activism, and the inclusio... Read More about Breaking out of the box: increasing the representation of disability within archive science.

Reasonable adjustment, unfair advantage or optional extra? Teaching staff attitudes towards reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Pearson, A., & Gimblett. (2023, March). Reasonable adjustment, unfair advantage or optional extra? Teaching staff attitudes towards reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities. Presented at Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2023: The Shoulders of Giants: Listening, Learning and Improving our Practice

Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups (2022)
Journal Article
Pearson. (2022). Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups. Legal Studies, 377 - 395. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2021.51

The recent advances in information technology now allow millions of people to trade and invest in an array of financial assets with the help of online brokerage platforms. This allows retail investors to have more control over their own financial wel... Read More about Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups.

Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups (2021)
Journal Article
Pearson. (2021). Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups. Legal Studies, 1 - 19. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2021.51

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The recent advances in information technology now allow millions of people to trade and invest in an array of financial assets with the help of online brokerage platforms. This allows retail investors to have... Read More about Facebook with money: the rise of online brokerage platforms and vulnerable groups.

Building Access Routes into Blackstone’s Tower Including Disability Perspectives in the Liberal Law School (2021)
Journal Article
Pearson. (2021). Building Access Routes into Blackstone’s Tower Including Disability Perspectives in the Liberal Law School. Amicus Curiae, 406 - 427. https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v2i3.5306

Disability, and its relationship to and relative absence within the English university law school permeates Blackstone’s Tower, from Rutland’s rickety lift and law library filled with inaccessible print texts to the recognition that minority perspect... Read More about Building Access Routes into Blackstone’s Tower Including Disability Perspectives in the Liberal Law School.

The debate about wheelchair spaces on buses goes ‘round and round’: access to public transport for people with disabilities as a human right (2018)
Journal Article
Pearson, A. (2018). The debate about wheelchair spaces on buses goes ‘round and round’: access to public transport for people with disabilities as a human right. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v69i1.68

This article examines the cases bought by Paulley concerning access to buses for wheelchair users when the wheelchair space is occupied by a buggy. It argues that the conclusion by the Supreme Court was unsatisfactory and a missed opportunity for a p... Read More about The debate about wheelchair spaces on buses goes ‘round and round’: access to public transport for people with disabilities as a human right.

What's worth got to do with it? Language and the Socio-Legal advancement of disability rights and equality (2014)
Journal Article
Pearson, A. (2014). What's worth got to do with it? Language and the Socio-Legal advancement of disability rights and equality

This article considers the appositeness of maintaining the defences of 'reasonable adjustment' and 'undue burden' in legislation relating to the rights of persons with disabilities, and what the maintenance of these concepts with legislative parlance... Read More about What's worth got to do with it? Language and the Socio-Legal advancement of disability rights and equality.