Creating Inclusive Workplaces for Academics with Energy Limiting Conditions – University of Liverpool

This series of illustrations accompanies guidace generated by a deeply important research project led by Prof. Bethan Evans of the University of Liverpool, as part of an ISRF Political Economy Fellowship, working with Dr Anna Ruddock and Dr Alison Allam. For more information about the project, see https://exhaustioneconomy.uk/.

The project explores how ableism and burnout are produced within neoliberal academia, examining the ways energy, exhaustion, and access shape academic life. Drawing on Crip Theory and lived experiences of people with energy-limiting chronic illness, it calls for more sustainable, inclusive approaches to research, teaching, and institutional practice, challenging the systems that turn academia into an “exhaustion economy.”