There are plenty of universities that are thinking about their self-cert policies on extensions right now – as “high academic standards” cause some to consider dialling back on the shift towards trusting students that we saw in the pandemic.
Disability is also currently a hot topic in higher education, and there’s been some research assessing how chronic illness impacts students’ experiences and work to explore how we can better support them.
But little of this covers the explicitly gendered nature of this issue.
Seventy per cent of chronic pain sufferers are female – and there is a huge lack of research and treatment for conditions that disproportionately affect women.
