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Karen Zecca, Mrs

Academic Lecturer / Associate Tutor / Senior Research Assistant / Professional Doctorate student at Cardiff & Vale College

As a Foundation Learning Lecturer at Cardiff and Vale College, I work directly with learners with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, additional learning needs and other barriers to education. As a former wheelchair user now living with an invisible disability, I bring a distinctive perspective shaped by both personal and professional experiences of disability.
My academic work centres on the Diverse Model of Disability, a theoretical framework I developed to explore the relationships between impairment, identity, lived experience, social structures and environmental barriers. Drawing on medical, social and biopsychosocial perspectives through an intersectional lens, the model challenges deficit-based approaches and seeks to inform inclusive educational policy and practice.
I am undertaking a Professional Doctorate (DProf) at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, focusing on the continued theoretical development of my model through lived experiences and reflexivity.

Karen Zecca's contributions

SIG Meet & Discuss: Inclusive Education

Join us for the next meeting of the Inclusive Education Special Interest Group, where members will come together to network, reflect, and explore key themes in inclusive education. We will begin...

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Past event26 Feb 2026Virtual

The ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming

On this 2nd ECR Annual Conference we continued to celebrate the ECR journeys and welcomed educational researchers and practitioners to join us in Leeds.  This year’s conference was anchored on...

Past event5 Jun 2024In Person

Meet and Discuss – Inclusive Education

This Inclusive Education SIG meeting was held to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG and plans for 2024 and onwards. This meeting was hosted online, with the...

Past event18 Jan 2024Virtual

Inclusive Education

The Inclusive Education SIG provides a forum for critical discussion about all aspects of Inclusive education. Our concerns are with the substantive, methodological and ethical aspects of research...

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