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Dr Rebecca Yeo

Research Fellow

  • r.yeo@exeter.ac.uk

Rebecca’s doctoral and postdoctoral explores intersectional injustices associated with disability and forced migration in the UK. Her book ‘Disabling Migration Controls’ argues that the restrictions imposed on people seeking asylum are actively disabling and that insights from the disabled people’s movement are highly relevant to building greater justice. She facilitates the Disability and Migration Network.

Rebecca is now working on the Sensing Climate project. It is increasingly apparent that new approaches are needed to address the climate emergency and that the disproportionate impact of extreme weather events on disabled people cannot be addressed simply by inclusion in business as usual. Sensing Climate aims to find out from disabled people living in a wide range of circumstances about people’s needs, experiences and insights in relation to climate change. Using an array of creative research methods including public art, the project enables people who contribute to the research to have a central role in developing and promoting the research findings. In these ways, the insights of disabled people can contribute to developing more effective and equitable response to climate change.

Rebecca has regularly used public art as a research method. Disability Murals showcases research working with groups of disabled people to create artwork led by artist Andrew Bolton showing people’s main messages and ideas.

Rebecca’s research interests are focused on response to struggles for disability, migration and climate justice.

Dr Rebecca Yeo

Key Colleagues

  • Dr Sarah Bell

    Dr Sarah Bell

  • Andy Shipley

    Andy Shipley

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-yeo-disabilityandmigration/

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Research project

Sensing Climate

A 5-year project placing the expertise of disabled people at the forefront of the climate crisis, creating new strategies to navigate a changing world.

Research project

Sensing Nature

Sensing Nature is exploring how people with varying forms and severities of sight impairment experience diverse types of nature.

Research project

Barriers to entrepreneurship in Cornwall

Exploring the factors preventing low-income individuals in Cornwall from accessing funding and starting new ventures.

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