The initial survey for the Disabled Academics Study (DAS) only included participants with what Price classifies as "mental disabilities," whereas the interviews included participants with a wide range of disabilities.

Including Multiple Types of Disabilities in DAS

Initially the Disabled Academics Study (DAS) only focused on disabled faculty but, the study expanded to later include graduate students. While the study initially did not have the resources to tailor the study to some of the unique considerations of graduate students' interactions with academia Price later decided to include graduate students since many graduate student simulanteously hold faculty, staff, or administrator roles - since 70 percent of postsecondary instruction is carried out by non-tenure-track instructors.

Including Graduate Students in DAS

Price notes that to achieve the values of accessibility and interdependence, Price and the research team drew on a research method Price conceived during her work on the book Mad at School which she called an interdependent qualitative research paradigm and the team drew on principles that Price outlined in her article "Disability Studies Methodology."

Foundations of Research Methods

Price notes that multiple shifts occurred during the designing and conducting of the Disabled Academic Study: mainly widening the types of disabilities included and the types of academics included. 

Price's study consisted of two phases - an anonymous survey and then in-depth interviews with participants.

Design of the Study

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

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Shifts in Designing the Study

The survey was created by Price along with Mark Salzer, who is a academic in the field of social and behavior sciences and psychology. After survey creation Stephanie Kerschbaum, an academic in the fields of rhetoric, composition, and disability, and Amber O'Shea, an academic in the field of educational psychology joined the team for analysis of the survey.

Individuals Involved in Survey Creation

To code interviews for the Disabled Academics Study (DAS), the research team used grounded theory, discourse analysis, and category construction.

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