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About

Dr Sarah Lewthwaite is a Senior Research Fellow within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton. She is now based in the Centre for Research in Inclusion where she leads the “Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set” study as Principal Investigator, and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (2019-2023).

Sarah affiliations include:

Honorary Fellow of the Learning Sciences Research Institute
Member of the Society for Disability Studies
Member of Wikimedia UK
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
Member of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Education and Outreach Working Group: Curricula Task Force
Member of the Society for Research in Higher Education

Research

Research groups

Member of:

Centre for Research in Inclusion

Research interests

Higher Education
Critical Disability Studies
Digital Accessibility
Pedagogy
Social Media Research

Current research

Sarah’s research expertise and interests centre on the teaching and learning of accessibility in academia and the workplace. She also maintains a keen interest in inclusion, disability and new media research, inclusive and accessible research methods and student experience. Sarah is Principal Investigator leading Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set.

Research projects

Active projects

Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set

Researchers:

Doctor Sarah Lewthwaite

Sponsor: ESRC

Completed projects

Big Qual Analysis: Innovation in Method and Pedagogy

Researchers:

Doctor Sarah Lewthwaite ,

Professor Rosalind Edwards ,

Professor Melanie Nind

Publications

58 publications

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From guinea pigs to design partners: working with older people in ICT design

Rob Edlin-White, Sue Cobb, Anne Floyde, Sarah Lewthwaite, Jing Wang & Johann Riedel, 2012

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-2867-0_16

Type: bookChapter

Critical approaches to accessibility for technology-enhanced learning

Sarah Lewthwaite, 2011, Learning, Media and Technology, 36(1), 85-89

DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2010.529915

Type: article

Accessibility for older users through adaptive interfaces: opportunities, challenges and achievements

Rob Edlin-White, Sue Cobb, Mirabelle D'Cruz, Anne Floyd, Sarah Lewthwaite & Johann Riedel, 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6763, 483-489

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21616-9_54

Type: article

Disability 2.0, student dis/connections: a study of student experiences of disability and social networks on campus in higher education

Sarah Lewthwaite, 2011

Type: thesis

Technologies for formal and informal learning

Charles Crook & Sarah Lewthwaite, 2010

Type: bookChapter

Developing countries; developing experiences: approaches to accessibility for the real world

Brian Kelly, Sarah Lewthwaite & David Sloan, 2010

DOI: 10.1145/1805986.1805992

Type: conference

A study of effective evaluation models and practices for technology supported physical learning spaces (JELS)

Ian Pearshouse, Brett Bligh, Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Lewthwaite, Rebecca Graber, Elizabeth Hartnell-Young & Mike Sharples, 2009

Type: report

The role of social networks in students’ learning experiences

Ilaria Liccardi, Asma Ounnas, Reena Pau, Elizabeth Massey, Paivi Kinnumen, Sarah Lewthwaite, Marie-Anne Midy & Chandan Sakar, 2007, SIGCSE Bulletin, 39(4), 224-237

DOI: 10.1145/1345443.1345442

Type: article

Teaching

Sarah teachs advanced qualitative research methods, and pedagogy development with the National Centre for Research Methods.

External roles and responsibilities

Name: Identifying key features of a good pedagogic resource for methods teachers and learners

Role: Speaker

Year: 2016

Name: Making constructive use of an emergent typology of methods pedagogy

Role: Speaker

Year: 2016

Biography

Sarah first joined the School of Education as a Research Fellow at the National Centre for Research Methods.

Prior to academia, Sarah has worked supporting disabled students’ access to education and technology in both secondary and higher education, and the public sector. She holds an MA in Research Methods (Distinction) and a PhD from the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham. During her doctoral studies, Sarah investigated how networked publics such as Facebook create and alter experiences of disability using advanced accessible, digital research methods.

Following her PhD, Sarah has worked as a researcher on the MyUI Project, an EC project developing interactive design for older users; and as a post-doctoral research associate in student experience at King’s College London.