TY - JOUR
T1 - Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability
AU - Sang, Katherine
AU - Calvard, Thomas
AU - Remnant, Jennifer
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research was funded by an EPSRC Career Acceleration Grant (awarded by Heriot-Watt University) and an internal research grant from the School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - Disabled people continue to face a variety of significant barriers to full participation and inclusion in work and employment. However, their experiences remain only sparsely discussed in relation to human resource management (HRM) practices and employment contexts. The current study contributes to this gap in understanding by drawing together relevant work connecting HRM practices, diversity management and disability studies to examine the experiences of a sample of 75 disabled academics in the UK. Through the social relational model of disability, HRM practices socially construct disability in the workplace. Interview and email data from disabled academics in the UK are drawn upon to illustrate how organisational practices and policies, while intended to ‘accommodate’ disabled people, inadvertently construct and shape disability for people with impairments or chronic health conditions.
AB - Disabled people continue to face a variety of significant barriers to full participation and inclusion in work and employment. However, their experiences remain only sparsely discussed in relation to human resource management (HRM) practices and employment contexts. The current study contributes to this gap in understanding by drawing together relevant work connecting HRM practices, diversity management and disability studies to examine the experiences of a sample of 75 disabled academics in the UK. Through the social relational model of disability, HRM practices socially construct disability in the workplace. Interview and email data from disabled academics in the UK are drawn upon to illustrate how organisational practices and policies, while intended to ‘accommodate’ disabled people, inadvertently construct and shape disability for people with impairments or chronic health conditions.
KW - academic careers
KW - disability
KW - discrimination
KW - inclusion
KW - social relational model
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U2 - 10.1177/0950017021993737
DO - 10.1177/0950017021993737
M3 - Article
SN - 0950-0170
VL - 36
SP - 722
EP - 740
JO - Work, Employment and Society
JF - Work, Employment and Society
IS - 4
ER -