Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Krysia Waldock, who is doing a PhD at the University of Kent that straddles various disciplinary areas. Krysia is based in the University’s Tizard Centre and has an undergraduate background in languages. A diagnosis of autism led to Krysia doing a Masters in Autism, which in turn resulted in her doing a doctorate, something she never thought she would do, where she is looking at religion, disability and people who are marginalized. We talk about the barriers, often institutional, that have been set up in terms of disability, and the notion of hermeneutical injustice, and the importance of giving people the requisite tools, towards fostering inclusion and belonging. Krysia discloses her experience of meeting like-minded people at university, and the benefits of telling students about one’s own disability, before moving to a discussion about the nature of education and how it fits with, for example, a grammar school ethos, and the notion of ableism. We talk about Krysia’s own education