Dr Alison Wilde

Assistant Professor

Key Publications

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Post 74 - Alison Wilde and excellence, activism and inclusion, Wilde, A. 25 Dec 2024
The normative trajectory of academics and class-based disablism in Higher Education, Wilde, A. 13 Oct 2025, Working-Class People in UK Higher Education, Leeds, Emerald
Exploring the effectiveness of media in communicating public health messages to people with learning disabilities during the pandemic, Macdonald, S., Wilde, A. 4 May 2025, In: Disability and Society
Gender, feminism and the project of critical disability studies (CDS), Wilde, A., Fish, R. 4 Mar 2025, In: Disability and Society
Film, Comedy, and Disability: Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability, Wilde, A. 10 Aug 2018
Disabled People on Film and Television, Wilde, A. 25 Aug 2020, The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: The normative trjectory of academics, and class-based disablism 2025
Oral presentation: The unencumbered academic 2025
Invited talk: Researching comedy guest speaker 2025
Oral presentation: The ‘encumbered’ academic – an exploration of precarity, class, and disablism in academia 2025
Oral presentation: The potential significance of the Hans Würtz collection to contemporary disability arts, and some dilemmas of disability representation 2025
Invited talk: ‘Anything can happen’: On comedy, inspiration porn, talent, meritocracy, and role models 2025
Invited talk: The Station Agent - Film and panel discussion 2024