Monthly blog updating on the progress of my SCAR Fellowship project: “Setting an agenda for disability-focused research in Antarctic Humanities and Social Sciences”.
Welcome to another month in the Antarctic Disability project, a Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) funded project aiming to define the priority research questions related to disability inclusion in Antarctic science.
May Research
The community survey has now closed with a fantastic 90 responses! I am incredibly grateful for the way people have shared their experiences and ideas with me, and work is now beginning on analysing the data and getting it ready for publication.
As a last step, preiminary results will be discussed with the Antarctic community via focus groups. The advert for these will go out to people who indicated an interest soon, but contact me at antarcticdisabilityproject@gmail.com if you'd like to be notified. We're hoping to hold these groups toward the end of June/early July, so watch this space!
A piece of joy
As per usual, I want to use the last section of this blog to share a piece of happiness from the last month. The British weather has been doing its best to literally dampen spirits, with plenty of rain, followed by what seems like an army of slugs and snails eating everything in my garden, but occasionally the sun has come out. In celebration of that, please enjoy this photo of my very silly dog enjoying rolling in the grass on a sunny morning.
And in a more personal piece of joy, my first paper from my PhD was published earlier in May. If you're interested in the history of British science in Antarctica, space weather, and the connections between international science, polar infrastructure, and British policy, it could be for you!
Oates Alice E. 2024 ‘Space Weather Sentinels’: Halley and the evolution of geospace science Notes Rec. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0088
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