Kelly Moes - Reflections on TASA 2024
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Kelly L Moes
Posted: 2025-01-29T22:33:12Z
The Impact of Opportunity: Reflections of a TASA 2024 Bursary Recipient by Kelly Moes
TASA 2024 Accessibility Bursary Report
I was pleased to be able to present a section of my PhD in the Health Sociology stream at TASA 2024. My presentation, "(Dis)locatedness: Reimagining digital chronic illness social connections as a Community of Practice," looked at how people with Intracranial Hypertension (IH) build social capital and expertise through digital communities. My presentation fit well into the session, which sparked some great discussions about the role of digital communities in health sociology. I also found the other sessions I attended in the health sociology and critical disabilities streams interesting and valuable. Connecting with other researchers exploring similar themes and putting faces to names was a definite highlight.
As a self-funded, disabled PhD student having financial support from the accessibility bursary made this academic experience possible. I am thankful to TASA for their commitment to making academic spaces more accessible and inclusive through their bursary program.