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. 8 Jul 2020, The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, Blackwell Publishing

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