The low representation of academics with disabilities is a longstanding problem on which progress has been slow. Drawing on my research on disability-related barriers and my experiences of disability, I make six practical suggestions for how academic staff and people with disabilities can help make academia more disability inclusive.
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Levitt, J.M. How we can make academia more disability inclusive. Nat Hum Behav 6, 1324–1326 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01447-y
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