Brown, Nicole;
(2024)
Managing Fibromyalgia in Higher Education.
Journal of Inclusive Practice in Further and Higher Education
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Abstract
In this article, I draw on my research regarding the lived experiences of 28 academics with fibromyalgia, whose academic roles ranged from early careers researchers undertaking their PhD studies, to mid-career academic practitioners and lecturers to professors in later career stages. I present the active work academics undertake on their bodies to navigate the working environment in higher education. I commence with an overview of the lived experience of fibromyalgia before providing an insight into being ill and/or disabled in higher education. I outline the context and details of the fibromyalgia study before discussing the participants' experiences of managing their fibromyalgia symptoms, managing their public and private selves and of being ill in academia. In the conclusion I return to the key issues of the ill and disabled body in academia, where I outline how managing the fibromyalgia body in academia represents a specific form of bodywork on the part of the individuals.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Managing Fibromyalgia in Higher Education |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://nadp-uk.org/resources/publications/nadp-jo... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. |
| Keywords: | fibromyalgia, academic identity, higher education, academia, bodywork |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191404 |
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