Stephanie Harvey

About the project

• PhD student, Cultural and Disability Studies
• Email: stephanie.harvey16@bathspa.ac.uk
• Campus: Newton Park, Bath
• Website: d4d.org.uk
• LinkedIn

Personal statement

Stephanie is undertaking an interdisciplinary PhD in Cultural and Disability Studies. Her research considers marginalisation in the UK context, with a prime focus on mental health, ethnicity and intersectionality.

Her work links to the D4D research project , led by Martin Levinson. Her previous career focused on UK and international disability policy issues; this experience informs her research.

She is the co-founder of Bath Spa's Power:Control reading group , now run by Jillian Sutherland, and she has affiliations with the Centre for Equity, Inclusion and Community , the Empathy and Writing research group and Oxford's Disability Law and Policy project. She is also an associate lecturer at Bath Spa University.

Academic qualifications

• BA (Hons) Fine Art, Contemporary Practices and Philosophy – First class honours

Thesis title

Moving beyond 'the cheapest kind of understanding': Enriching policy responses to BAME mental health inequality.

Research supervisors

Professor Martin Levinson , Ben Simmons , Lucy Burke (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Research overview

This qualitative research is supported by an AHRC funded studentship connected to the D4D research project. My research takes a critical ethnography approach to consider the issue of mental health inequalities experienced by racialised people and people of minority ethnicity and mixed-cultural backgrounds.

Research interests

• Disability
• Intersectionality
• Mental health
• Minority ethnicity

Publications, conferences and presentations

• Difficult situations, difficult decisions: a PhD researcher’s experiences, The ethics of representation workshop , 2019
• ‘The cheapest kind of understanding’: intersectional marginalisation in claiming disability rights?, Nordic Network of Disability Research conference , 2019
• Avoiding presenting ‘the cheapest kind of understanding’, Empathy in Writing workshop , 2019
• Disability: What do we mean?, presentation to Office for Disability Issues , 2019
• UK disability policy: an international stage, presentation to Bristol Jobcentre management meeting , 2018
• The theoretical to the applicable: translating intersectionality in a disability context, presentation to the Government Equalities Office , 2018
• The theoretical to the applicable: translating intersectionality in a disability context, Bath Spa research roundtable , 2018
• Diversity in Disability: Ethnicity and cross-cultural considerations in the UN CRPD examination, presentation to the Office for Disability Issues , 2018
• Diversity in Disability: Ethnicity and cross-cultural considerations in the UN CRPD examination, Oxford University's Disability Law and Policy conference , 2018

Blogs

• The Nordic Network for Disability Research conference, D4D blog, 2019
• Just theorising, and its implications, D4D blog, 2018
• Where is Disability in all of this?, D4D blog, 2018
• Stephanie Harvey: First steps , D4D blog, 2017

Awards and achievements

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• Local Compact Award, Advancing Equality , 2015
• Exhibitor, Poetry beyond text: Vision, Text and Cognition , a touring exhibition ending at the Royal Scottish Academy, 2011
• Exhibitor, Next Generation exhibition, Glasgow, 2009.

Research areas