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Biography
Anna Pilson a PhD student at Durham University School of Education. Her ESRC-funded project aims to create a collaborative autoethnographic project with young visually impaired people, who are positioned as knowledge producers. Prior to commencing her PhD studies, Anna worked in the UK and German education systems as a teacher, and since 2012 as a Qualified Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairments (QTVI). In January 2022 she joined the Department of Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs at the University of Birmingham School of Education as Lecturer in Vision Impairment Education and Course Leader for the postgraduate Mandatory Qualification for Teaching Children and Young People with Vision Impairments (MQVI). Anna's research interests include Participatory Action Research, Critical Disability Studies, vision impairment, autoethnography and practitioner-led and school-based research. She is an active member of BERA, BSA and UKPRN and an affiliate member of the iHuman research collective at the University of Sheffield. She tweets as @pilsonanna.
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Arts, MA Education, Durham University
Award Date: 31 Aug 2012
Bachelor of Arts, BA (Hons) History, University of Liverpool
Award Date: 5 Jul 2002
Keywords
- L Education (General)
- Vision Impairment
- Critical Disability Studies
- Participatory Action Research
- Autoethnography
- Posthumanism
- Feminist Theory
- Affect Studies
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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‘Yeah, embrace your anger. Fuck them.’: using feminist collaborative autoethnography and an ethics of care to (re)imagine our position as disabled women in academic spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Rutter, N., Pilson, A. & Yeo, E., 12 Aug 2024, In: Feminist Review. 137, 1, p. 53-70 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Locking and Unlocking: The Potentialities for Intra-Storying-Activism in “This” Baglady Collective
Baglady, Albin-Clark, J., Ovington, J. A., Isom, P., Platt, L., Harding, L., Carley, F., Elwell, A., Antipas, P. N., Pilson, A., Marshall, C. E. & Smith, S. L., 31 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Posthumanism. 3, 3, p. 251-268 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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We Need to be as a Group: Using and Evaluating the Listening Guide in Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography With an Affective ‘Fifth Listen’ as a Tool to (re)construct Identities
Yeo, E., Pilson, A., Rutter, N. & Hasan, E., 30 Jun 2023, In: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 22, p. 1–11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“It’s About Channelling that Anger, Isn’t It?” Postgraduate Researcher Resistance through Collaboration and Care
Rutter, N., Pilson, A., Yeo, E. & Hasan, E., 9 Oct 2023, In: New Sociological Perspectives. 3, 1, p. 50-62 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Developing understandings of disability through a constructivist paradigm: identifying, overcoming (and embedding) crip-dissonance
Olsen, J. & Pilson, A., 22 Feb 2022, In: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 24, 1, p. 15-28 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Projects
- 2 Finished
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Curriculum Framework for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment (CFVI) Project Phase 2 (also known as 'Specialist Curriculum project: Phase Two ')
Douglas, G. (Co-Investigator), Pilson, A. (Co-Investigator) & Hewett, R. (Principal Investigator)
Royal National Institute For The Blind
1/09/22 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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ESRC IAA (2022): Anna Pilson Mentoring Impact Project
Pilson, A. (Principal Investigator)
Economic & Social Research Council
30/06/22 → 31/03/23
Project: Research Councils