Emrys Travis

Background

About Emrys Travis

Currently Disability and Accessibility Specialist at the Royal Society of Chemistry; designing and managing strategic, evidence-based interventions to improve accessibility and inclusivity for disabled people in the chemical sciences. MPhil graduate with Distinction in Comparative European & Latin American Literatures & Cultures at the University of Cambridge, focusing on cross-reading Marxist feminism with queer and transgender theory. Funding awarded by the Snowdon Trust. Change100 intern in Inclusion & Diversity at the Royal Society of Chemistry, summer 2020. Research associate investigating the impact of Content Note provision on the attainment and retention of students with mental health issues, funded by the University of Cambridge's Equality & Diversity Fund, summer 2020. Full time sabbatical Disabled Students' Officer at the Cambridge University Students' Union 2018-19. Long-term involvement in grassroots activism for disabled, LGBT+, and feminist liberation, with a wide range of associated skills: research, resource creation, communications, cultural competency, delivering training. Writer and editor with experience on multiple publication teams, including Monstering, a literary magazine for disabled women and non-binary people, and FCome, an Italian feminist publication. Fluent in Italian and French, with additional skills in German, Dutch, Spanish. First class BA (Hons) in Modern & Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge, focusing on comparative literature and film, 20th-21st century French critical theory, and gender studies.