Dr Harvey Humphrey

Postgraduate Associate

Department: Social Sciences

I thought academia was not for me
Seeking representation through my degree
Searching across all those black and white pages
Assuming universalism through the ages

Such claims to truth yet they did not speak to me
I really tried but this ‘truth’ I could not see
So I abandoned these rules and disciplines
To tell different truths, find new beginnings
I share my research with the words that best fit
Trying to worry less about who gets it

So dear reader perhaps you cannot relate
To any of the issues on which I prate
To my queer focus on temporalities
Or celebration of non-normative bodies
But at least this research is not hard to read
Focusing instead on accessibility
Yet offers a rainbow of complexity
And understandings outside stark binaries

Maybe being Out it makes space in HE
Making it easier for others like me
An academic activist? Try to be
Embracing creative sociology
While still somewhat interdisciplinary
Or maybe I just like language and poetry

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Creative Representation

I tried to find the words but they wouldn’t come
struggling to write, all my thoughts come undone
overwhelmed by the burden
of representation
of real people with a real story
so I added creativity

Swapping out one truth for another
Replacing one place with the other
removed from context, out of time
Freed up these stories, theirs not mine
their many truths overlapped in rhyme

Through this I found the words, their words
Their expression, their phrasing, their terms
to do justice to their stories, contexts
to make sense of relationships so complex
offers an analysis that respects complex contexts

Key Publications

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AS IS; Access and Inclusion in KE Events: Brief Report, Humphrey, H., Taylor, Y., Govender, N. 13 Mar 2023
AS IS Film, Humphrey, H. 17 Feb 2023
Building a Community for Queer Disability Studies: Lessons from the Snail, Humphrey, H., Slater, J., Coleman-Fountain, E., Jones, C. 21 Apr 2023, In: Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Creating Time for LGBT+ Disabled Youth: Co-production Outside Chrononormativity, Humphrey, H., Coleman-Fountain, E. 22 Feb 2023, In: Sociological Research Online
Création d’une communauté réunissant les études queer sur le handicap: leçons tirées de l’escargot, Humphrey, H., Slater, J., Coleman-Fountain, E., Jones, C. 14 Sep 2023, In: Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: GRA Reform Tries to Rights a Wrong, Humphrey, H. 1 Jul 2023, In: Feminist Legal Studies
Making meanings out of me:: Reading researchers’ and participants’ bodies through poetry, Humphrey, H. 24 Feb 2023, In: Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Section 28: School's Not Out, Humphrey, H. 1 Feb 2023, Twenty-Eight, Reconnecting Rainbows Press
AS IS, Humphrey, H. 2 Jul 2022
‘Brain Fog’ and ‘Pain to Scale’, Humphrey, H. 3 Jun 2022

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: Disabled Young People’s experience of Personal Support: Intimacies, identities and embodiments in Personal Assistance Relationships 2022
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Questions in Queer Disability Studies 2021
Invited talk: Creating Time for LGBT+ Disabled Youth: Research Involvement in Pandemic Times 2021
Invited talk: Creating Time for LGBT+ Disabled Youth: Research Involvement in Pandemic Times 2021

Qualifications

Sociology PhD April 30 2021
Sociology PhD January 12 2021

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