Erin Pritchard

(She/Her)

Dr Erin Pritchard is a senior lecturer in Disability studies, in the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University, in the UK. She is also a core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability studies. Her work focuses on the social experiences of people with dwarfism, including how representations of people with dwarfism in the media affect how other members of society perceive and treat them. Erin's work has featured in both academic and non-academic literature, including the Times Higher, The Independent, the Metro and the Big Issue. She has also been featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Norwthwest, This Morning, the One Show, and S4C's Pawb a'i Farn.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University

Education

  • 2014 
    Newcastle University, PhD Human Geography

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