A research colleague, Alan Armstrong, couldn’t understand why he was only supposed to do learning disability research. He had no issue with researchers who chose to position themselves in this field. But he had been positioned there by others.
Alan wanted to research other social topics, such as the lives of working class men. And why not?
Why not indeed.
Alan was starting to build an academic profile. However, no-one seemed to expect him to be interested in anything except learning disability research. They just saw someone with learning disabilities.
I wish he’d lived long enough to challenge this.
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