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Recognising Disability in Higher Education: A Human Rights Perspective
Author(s): Inger Marie Lid (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: February 10, 2026
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 94 pages
- ISBN-10: 1041136900
- ISBN-13: 9781041136903
Book Description
Exploring and addressing disability in higher education, this key title focuses on education as a human rights topic. It provides empirical examples and analyses selected national policies in global contexts to discuss how to facilitate equal access to higher education for students and academics with disabilities.
Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the author demonstrates how to facilitate equal access to higher education and raise awareness of disability as a human condition and an aspect of diversity in higher education. This book discusses dilemmas with regard to implementing universal design and individual accommodation in order to facilitate for diversity of individuals among students and staff.
With chapters covering implementation of the UN CRPD, ableism, recognition theory, disability, universal design, and individual accommodation, this book focuses on the institutional perspective – what are the universities’ responsibilities and how can universities and teachers respond by implementing and practising inclusive policies? It is ideal reading for anyone interested in addressing the topic of disability in higher education.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A timely and clear-minded view of the politics of inclusion in higher education.
Jan Grue, Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo
In this cogent, accessible book, Lid reminds us of the importance of thinking about and supporting access to higher education for disabled people as a human right. She draws on the CRPD and rich anecdotal evidence to contemplate the individual, local, and global implications of legislative enactments and personal and institutional efforts to make higher education institutions more accessible. This book should be necessary reading for advocates and students and scholars alike.
Michael Rembis, Director of the Center for Disability Studies at The State University of New York, University at Buffalo and author of Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum
In this book, Inger Marie Lid, a professor living with disabilities, examines the realities and experiences of disability in higher education institutions in Norway and beyond, offering a personal perspective. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is used critically to help readers understand the relational nature of disability. The book is useful for understanding our reality.
Hisayo Katsui, Professor in Disability Studies, University of Helsinki, President of the Nordic Network on Disability Research
About the Author
Inger Marie Lid is Professor of public health and rehabilitation with a focus on interdisciplinary disability research, citizenship studies, and universal design at VID Specialized University, Norway. Lid has published books, articles, and edited books in interdisciplinary disability research, citizenship, human rights studies, and participation.
