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He's a wheelchair user, if that makes any difference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Shakespeare

//edit// He is also currently Professor of Disability Research in the medical faculty at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

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That makes a lot more sense - they should probably include those credentials instead of the place where he teaches, the way it is written now makes it seem like he isn't a subject matter expert...

> they should probably include those credentials

I can't think of a good way to present credentials beyond name and position.

Adding extra information can lead to wierdities: "a disabled researcher" or "a white researcher" or "an elderly researcher".

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