This work takes the most recent, interdisciplinary research and demonstrates how to make higher education institutions open, accessible and socially just for staff and students with disabilities. Combining the scholarly fields of media platform management, information literacy, internet studies, mobility studies and disability studies, this book offers a guide and method to consider how students and staff with differing needs move through university processes, spaces and interfaces. It captures the challenges and potentials of both the online and offline university. The key concept of the book is universal design. This term and theory is used to move beyond the medical and social model of disability that disconnect and separate the issues of disability and impairment from core societal concerns. This book confirms that most of us will be touched by impairment through our lives. When matched with the necessity to retrain and gain new skills for a post-recession future, there must be a renewed commitment to not only the widening participation agenda of higher education, but also the enabling of universities for men and women with impairments.

Configures strategies to open our universities to staff and students with impairments Considers how students and staff with differing needs move through university processes and spaces Demonstrates why discussions of impairment and disability are integral to any educational programme or policy Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Tara Brabazon is the Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. Previously, Tara has held academic positions in the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. She has won six teaching awards, including the National Teaching Award for the Humanities and has published 14 books and over 150 refereed articles and book chapters. She is best known for her books Digital Hemlock (2002), the University of Google (2007), Thinking Pop (2011) and Digital Dieting (2013). Mick Winter is a writer and journalist. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Arts (Distinction) from the University of Brighton in the UK. He is currently completing his doctorate on meme culture at Charles Sturt University. A professional writer, he is the author of Cuba for the Misinformed: Facts from the Forbidden Island, Scan Me - Everybody's Guide to the Magical World of QR Codes and Peak Oil Prep: Prepare for Peak Oil, Climate Change and Economic Collapse. He is an expert in the Californian wine industry and has written guide books about the wine region in the Napa Valley. He remains an active journalist for the wine industry. Bryn Gandy works in the public service in New Zealand. His career has included roles working across a number of areas of New Zealand life, including health, community development and Local Government, social welfare, justice and defence. Having achieved a BA (Hons) at the Victoria University of Wellington, he was a Leadership Development Centre Fellow in 2009 and studied the way community and government organisations were meeting the challenge of addressing increasingly complex problems by working together. He has an interest in how economic development can enable social development.

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Prologue: Disabled are Able?.- Introduction: Failure is not an Option.- Part One: Politics.- 1. The Politics of Stairs.- 2. The Politics of Mobility.- 3. The Politics of Models.- 4. The Politics of Labels.- Part Two: Difference.- 5. Why Universities Matter.- 6. Beyond Stigma.- 7. Difference and Judgment.- Part Three: Design.- 8. Intervention through Teacher Education.- 9. Universal Design: Designing for Life (and Learning).- Conclusion: Futures.- Prologue: Disabled are Able?.