In this brand new episode, Carys Kennedy shares reflections on a professional journey from Student Disability Services into academia. Drawing on a background in student support, Carys explores how prior experience continues to shape her identity and practice as an academic - from teaching and course design to student relationships and institutional insight. The conversation considers the challenges and opportunities that come with transitioning between professional and academic roles, and what this movement reveals about the structures and assumptions within higher education. Carys invites us to reimagine the boundaries between academic and professional domains, and what it means to carry one role into the other. Enjoy!

Carys Kennedy is an educator, coach, and mentor specialising in disability equity and social justice in Higher Education. Carys works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Education at University of the Arts London, and is a PhD student at the Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds.