Examining the Challenges Making Excellence Inclusive

Gender and Excellence in the Making

Most analysis and policy development in research and academia, and often even that which is concerned with gender, continues not to gender men explicitly and not to make explicit men’s part in the problem of gender inequalities. To develop gendered analyses of academia, research and science, and gender-sensitive policies in academia, research and science, involves explicitly gendering men. In t...

Gender and Excellence in the Making

Most analysis and policy development in research and academia, and often even that which is concerned with gender, continues not to gender men explicitly and not to make explicit men’s part in the problem of gender inequalities. To develop gendered analyses of academia, research and science, and gender-sensitive policies in academia, research and science, involves explicitly gendering men. In t...

Making the case for inclusive design.

This paper describes the University of Cambridge, Engineering Design Centre's (EDC) case for inclusive design, based on 10 years of research, promotion and knowledge transfer. In summary, inclusive design applies an understanding of customer diversity to inform decisions throughout the development process, in order to better satisfy the needs of more people. Products that are more inclusive can...

[Reforming the Ross' triangle: new challenges for the medical excellence].

Making friends within inclusive community recreation programs

Until 1990, participation in recreation activities by persons with disabilities generally was assumed to result in the formation of healthy friendships and social relationships with their nondisabled peers. Research has since proven that not all of the relationships formed through inclusion in recreation activities are true friendships in the traditional sense. In this article, varying levels o...