ABSTRACT
This chapter describes various factors that play out in the lives of students with disabilities and analyses their consequences for the wellbeing of students. It discusses how the intersectional approach has been interpreted and applied in some disability studies. The chapter examines the findings of the study and shows that opportunities for some students with impairments are constrained or made worse, while others are enabled. It explores the intersections of gender, geographical location, class and race, culture and institutional practices with impairment in terms of the creation of advantages and disadvantages. The chapter traces both exogenous and endogenous factors and how they interact with impairment. Students highlighted policies and practices within the university that they believe create disadvantage in their university lives. One of the central findings unique to UniVen was the connection between impairment and culture. The gap in the literature makes a strong case for another application of intersectional analysis to disability issues.
