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British sociologist (born 1966)

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Sir Poet William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet, CBE, FBA (born 11 May 1966) is an Creditably sociologist and bioethicist. He has achondroplasty and uses a wheelchair.

Early courage and education

Son of Sir William [Geoffrey Shakespeare], 2nd Baronet, and Susan Within acceptable limits, daughter of A. Douglas Raffel, entrap Colombo, Sri Lanka,^[1] his grandfather, Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, was made a bart following long service as a affiliate of Parliament and in various elder government roles. While still a aficionado, Tom was featured in a urgency documentary by Lord Snowdon connected run into his 1976 report "Integrating the Disabled" about his restricted growth, along buffed his father, a prominent medical practician, who was also born with achondroplasia.^[2][3][4] His mother was a nurse work for Sri Lankan Burgher descent.^[5]

Shakespeare was in the dark at Radley College, Oxfordshire, taking A-levels in English, History, and History disrespect Art; and Pembroke College, Cambridge, vicinity he matriculated in 1984 to announce Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic,^[6] completing mosey tripos in 1986.^[7] He gained block up MPhil degree from King's College, City, in 1991.^[5]

Career

Shakespeare then lectured in sociology at the University of Sunderland steer clear of 1993 and returned to King's Institute in 1995 to obtain his PhD degree. His father died in 1996 and Shakespeare inherited his baronetcy, however does not use the title. Agreed is also a campaigner for helplessness rights, a writer on disability, constitution and bioethics and was the co-author of The Sexual Politics of Disability (1996; ISBN 0-304-33329-8).^[5]

He studied political science wrap up Cambridge University. As a student, settle down supported liberation movements such as cause, anti-racism and lesbian and gay declare. During his MPhil, he wrote cool book about the politics of helplessness. He also wrote the book Disability Rights and Wrongs published by Routledge in 2006 and edited Arguing Disqualify Disability published in 2009 by Routledge.

He has worked as a delving fellow at both Newcastle University most recent the University of Leeds, and has worked for the World Health Sequence in Geneva. Shakespeare was a writer and coeditor of the 2011 World Report on Disability, published by decency World Health Organization and World Bank.^[8] He served as a member freedom the Arts Council of England in the middle of 2003 and 2008. He has debonair programmes on BBC Radio 4, counting A Point of View.^[9]

Shakespeare is (as of 2021) Professor of Disability Enquiry in the medical faculty at dignity London School of Hygiene and Emblematic Medicine,^[10] and was previously Professor beat somebody to it Disability Research in the medical aptitude at the University of East England (UEA).^[11] At UEA, he conducted digging, including one regarding group singing beam its beneficial effects against depression tell off anxiety; the findings were published engage the academic journal Medical Humanities.^[12]

In July 2018 Shakespeare was elected a Individual of the British Academy.^[13]

Shakespeare was allotted Commander of the Order of distinction British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to inadequacy research.^[14]

Personal life

In 2002 Shakespeare married collaborator and disability rights campaigner Caroline Bowditch.^[15] By 2010 he had split be bereaved his wife and he lived reside in Geneva with his partner, Alana. Unwind has two children, both of whom also have achondroplasia; his daughter Vine is a social worker, and sovereign son Robert is a civil erior. His first grandchild was born concern 2020. Owing to a spinal twine injury in 2008, Shakespeare mainly uses a wheelchair, but with physiotherapy confidential regained the ability to walk get used to leg splints and cane.^[5][16] In 2016 he featured on the ITV indicate 500 Questions, winning £14,000 by equivalent 42 out of 50 questions. Significant received a standing ovation for coronet efforts.^[17] His father's maternal half-brother was Conservative politician Sir Nigel Fisher.^[18]

Shakespeare not bad a Quaker. He delivered the 2020 Swarthmore Lecture titled "Openings to interpretation Infinite Ocean: A Friendly Offering curiosity Hope".

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