National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) – “Our Stories: Experiences from our Disabled Staff Networks across the UK”

The National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) held a panel session at the National Association of Disability Practitioners (NAPD) 2015 annual conference to share experiences from Disabled Staff Networks across the UK. Interestingly, it was the only workshop at the event exploring disabled staff experiences and best practice, whilst all the others focused on services to and support for students (NADP, 2015). This article summarises and expands on the discussion, but is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to disabled staff networks

Analysis of responses to the Children and Young People Bill consultation

The Children and Young People Bill will be introduced to Parliament in 2013 and will set out fundamental reforms to the way services for children and young people are designed, delivered and reviewed. The Scottish Government conducted a large-scale series of national engagement events to discuss the proposals for reforms with a wide range of stakeholders. In addition, it published a consultation document on 4 July 2012 which invited views on key areas of proposed reform: children’s rights; early learning and childcare; getting it right for every child; and the care system

Identity After Identity Politics

Linda Nicholson’s Article tackles the complexity of how identity politics manifest in the 2008 election. In Identity after Identity Politics, she notes that during the election political and popular commentators continued to speculate about how race and gender were affecting the election, even as people proclaimed that the era of identity politics was dead and ushered in a post-identity world. Attempting to explain this contradiction, Nicholson urges an historical explanation rooted in two different visions of identity difference that emerged in twentieth century. Identity after Identity Politics investigates how environmental explanations for race and gender differences were put to different political uses. On the one hand, some used environmentalism to minimize the importance of differences, urging a politics of commonality and individualism and a legal regime of anti-discrimination. Others acknowledged these differences but contended they were products of environment, often using the denomination culture to describe and value these differences. Using radical feminism and Black Power as her case studies, Nicholson shows how these latter activists built political movements predicated on preserving and valuing these differences as culture, not eliminating them. While valuing difference differently, Nicholson contends that both frameworks depict race and gender as relatively stable bodily and behavioral characteristics whose effects . . . are stable across social contexts. She rejects these assumptions, instead contending that race and gender should be understood as symbolic or linguistic means by which bodies, behaviors, and their relationships with each other and with diverse social situations are variously interpreted. In this sense, Nicholson brings a Butlerian approach to refute articulations of race and gender as social constants, instead urging their context specificity

Identity After Identity Politics

Linda Nicholson’s Article tackles the complexity of how identity politics manifest in the 2008 election. In Identity after Identity Politics, she notes that during the election political and popular commentators continued to speculate about how race and gender were affecting the election, even as people proclaimed that the era of identity politics was dead and ushered in a post-identity world. Attempting to explain this contradiction, Nicholson urges an historical explanation rooted in two different visions of identity difference that emerged in twentieth century. Identity after Identity Politics investigates how environmental explanations for race and gender differences were put to different political uses. On the one hand, some used environmentalism to minimize the importance of differences, urging a politics of commonality and individualism and a legal regime of anti-discrimination. Others acknowledged these differences but contended they were products of environment, often using the denomination culture to describe and value these differences. Using radical feminism and Black Power as her case studies, Nicholson shows how these latter activists built political movements predicated on preserving and valuing these differences as culture, not eliminating them. While valuing difference differently, Nicholson contends that both frameworks depict race and gender as relatively stable bodily and behavioral characteristics whose effects . . . are stable across social contexts. She rejects these assumptions, instead contending that race and gender should be understood as symbolic or linguistic means by which bodies, behaviors, and their relationships with each other and with diverse social situations are variously interpreted. In this sense, Nicholson brings a Butlerian approach to refute articulations of race and gender as social constants, instead urging their context specificity

Ash Content of Macrophytes from Chautauqua Lake

Author Institution: Department of Biology, State University CollegeNICHOLSON, STUART A. AND LINDA W. POST. Ash Content of Macrophvtes from Chautauqua Lake. Ohio ]. Sci.~74(l): 29, 1975