Reading this book is your first step to becoming a competent human geography researcher.
Whether you are a novice needing practical help for your first piece of research or a …

Many urban environments are being redesigned around a relatively new approach to street
design termed shared space. Shared space is a traffic engineering concept that eliminates …

Disabled students form a significant but under represented minority in higher education in
the UK. Participation appears to be particularly low in disciplines that contain a fieldwork …

This article examines the mobility strategies that visually impaired (VI) young people employ
as they negotiate their daily lives in the city. In contrast to research which foregrounds …

For this first of three progress reports on cartography, I am going to focus upon research into
tactile map** for visually impaired people, published since Fleming's (1990) review. This …

Disabled students from a significant but under represented minority in higher education in
the UK. Participation appears to be particularly low in disciplines that contain a fieldwork …

In this paper I argue that new social geographies of impairment present a conceptually
sophisticated, but limiting, view of the impaired body as a container of social disadvantage …

This paper argues that the'new'social geographies of impairment literature present a
sophisticated analysis of the socio-spatiality of the impaired body, but one that now needs …

The visually impaired community often finds the built environment difficult to navigate.
Elements of street design such as street furniture, bollards and shared space are some of …

Objective: To explore the effect of visual field loss on the daily life of community-dwelling
stroke survivors. Design: A qualitative interview study. Participants: Adult stroke survivors …