| Cynthia Bruce |
Concordia University |
Is a blind activist and researcher in Education with a focus on Accessibility, Higher Education and Disability Studies. She works specifically in 3 domains: amplifying minorised voices and diverse voices, making ableism and inequity visible, and creating capacity for change. |
| Piet Devos |
Independent researcher |
Has an academic background in Translation Studies, Literary Studies and Latin American Studies, Modern Romance Literature, and Sensory Studies. His research interests are the interconnection between art, literature, the senses, and disability. |
| Ibrahim Emara |
Cairo University |
Has an academic background in Journalism and Media. His research interests are accessibility in the media, among others the design of braille magazines, and the use of social media and YouTube by visually impaired people. |
| Wojciech Figiel |
University of Warsaw |
Has an academic background in Conference Interpreting and Translation, and his focus has been accessibility of translational professions for visually impaired persons, audio description, and digital accessibility. He is also interested in Disability Studies and Sociology of Translation. |
| Lourdes González-Perea |
Fundación ONCE |
Has an academic background in Journalism, Accessible Technologies, and Education and Social Communication, and she has worked in the accessibility industry for many years. Her research interests are accessible technologies, with a recent project on generative AI and involuntary solitude among people with disabilities. |
| Georgina Kleege |
University of California, Berkeley |
Describes herself a memoirist and has published academic articles and fiction works on her experience of blindness, others’ writings about blindness, blindness and visual art (for instance, visual artists who are blind or visually impaired), and accessibility. |
| Naiara Larrakoetxea |
University of the Basque Country |
Has a Political Science background with a PhD in Society, Politics and Culture combined with Deaf Studies (currently a Deaf Studies Incubator Fellow). She works mainly within the community-based participatory research paradigm, intersectionality, Deaf feminism, and linguistic activism (collaborating within minority language projects). |
| Brígida Maestres |
Open University of Catalonia |
Has developed an academic career in Sociology and Social Psychology and Public Policy. Currently, she specialises in vision and low vision epistemology and aesthetics, embodied epistemologies, biopolitics, vulnerability, and justice and victimisation. |
| Laura Moya Santander |
University of Zaragoza |
Has an academic background in Social Work and Sociology, and she works on Critical Disability Studies, doing discourse analysis on disability and researching disability representation and public policies. On accessibility, she has published on ocular-centrism in urban planning and architecture (Moya Santander et al., 2020). |
| Laura Sanmiquel Molinero |
Autonomous University of Barcelona |
Is a Social Psychology and a (Critical) Disability Studies researcher that works extensively within the Narrative Production (Balasch & Montenegro, 2003) methodology. She is particularly interested in the construction of disabled subjectivities from a psychosocial approach and an intersectional lens: “how we construct ourselves as subjects in view of the different models of disability, which allow us to reflect on ourselves and how we appropriate the models”. |
| Bertrand Verine |
Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry |
Has an academic background in French Language and Literature, as well as Language Sciences. His research interests were formerly on novels of historical awareness, linguistic and narrative analysis, and specifically reported speech. His focus then switched to his true and current interests: sensoriality and discourse around blindness, as well as haptic experience. |
Insider research in media accessibility