ADHD in higher education and academia

Authors

  • Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist Södertörn university
  • Lill Hultman Södertörn university
  • Sofia Österborg Wiklund Umeå university
  • Anna Nygren Åbo Akademi University and University of Gothenburg
  • Palle Storm Stockholm university
  • Greta Sandberg Södertörn university

Keywords:

ADHD peer support, ADHD learning, ADHD graduate students, ADHD faculty, neurodivergence, knowledge production, critical ADHD studies

Abstract

In this paper we explore our own experiences of barriers to learning and academic knowledge production in academia and higher education. Our analyses are based on our collective autoethnographical accounts from our own experiences of ADHD and higher education, with a particular focus on post graduate education and our experiences of ADHD peer support in academic knowledge production. In our analysis, we have distinguished between three different dimensions of academia for ADHD graduate students and faculty: as a place of structural violence and vulnerability; as enabling or disabling, and as a place for neurodivergent community formation. There are few ADHD-centered traditions of learning within education. By ADHD-centered we refer to perspectives within education and support informed by an ADHD insider-perspective. We therefore stress the possibilities of ADHD learning informed by the emerging field of critical ADHD studies.

Author Biographies

Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Södertörn university

Ph.D. in Sociology Assistant Professor in Sociology and senior lecturer in Social work Södertörn university

Lill Hultman, Södertörn university

Ph.D. in Social work Senior lecturer in Social work Södertörn university

Sofia Österborg Wiklund, Umeå university

Ph.D. in Education Postdoc in Education history
Umeå university

Anna Nygren, Åbo Akademi University and University of Gothenburg

Candidate in Literary criticism Adjunct in Literary composition
Åbo Akademi University and University of Gothenburg

Palle Storm, Stockholm university

Ph.D. in Social work Senior lecturer in Social work Stockholm university

Greta Sandberg, Södertörn university

Adjunct in Social work Södertörn university

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Published

2023-11-29

How to Cite

Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Hultman, L., Österborg Wiklund, S., Nygren, A., Storm, P., & Sandberg, G. (2023). ADHD in higher education and academia. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 12(3), 1–26. Retrieved from https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/1032

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2023)

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