We have some exciting news for you! Over the coming months, we are launching a new blog post series on researchers and disabilities. Many of us, researchers and students alike, deal with disability in our daily lives, which includes research. In this new series, we wanted to platform different voices, people who would like to share their various experience of being a researcher with disabilities, the challenges they might encounter in their work, on the field, or even in the archives, the need to raise awareness on those matters and the discussions that need to happen to make research life better for everyone.
What is your experience being a researcher and studying the medieval period with dyslexia?
We are thrilled to have George Knight, one of our current MEMSLib team members, write the first blog post of the new 'Researchers and Disabilities' series! And what an amazing article it is!
George discusses what is dyslexia and how it affected him in his work and personally. He also shared how he works alongside his dyslexia and turns it into an advantage in his research life. George also kindly shares some brilliant tips to help dealing with dyslexia as a student!
For accessibility purposes, this article is accompanied by an audio recording by the author and which can be listened to direclty from the article page.
George also wrote for the School of History about his experience with MEMS as a MA student at the University of Kent and what he has been up to since he graduated. (Spoiler: he is an archeologist!)
We invite you to read his graduate profile in which he might mention us a couple of times... You will also learn about what we offer at MEMS and the opportunities that are available to our students!
As part of our mission to platform the voices of researchers with disabilities in our new blog series, we are inviting people who would like to contribute to the conversation to contact us! The blog post can take the form of an article or an interview, depending on your preference.
Graduate students, ECRs and senior academics are all welcome!
The new look for our Medieval Languages and Middle English Literature pages is a work in progress, and we would greatly benefit from your feedback as we look to following this format across the rest of our site. We have added a new feedback form to our website, and we would really appreciate your thoughts, comments, and suggestions for how to make our digital library work best for you.
You can also stay in touch via email or Twitter, and we'll be back soon with more updates as we work towards a MEMSLib which is built for researchers globally.
