Brown, Nicole; (2024) Managing Fibromyalgia in Higher Education. Journal of Inclusive Practice in Further and Higher Education (In press).

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In this article, I draw on my research regarding the lived experiences of 28 academics with fibromyalgia, whose academic roles ranged from early careers researchers undertaking their PhD studies, to mid-career academic practitioners and lecturers to professors in later career stages. I present the active work academics undertake on their bodies to navigate the working environment in higher education. I commence with an overview of the lived experience of fibromyalgia before providing an insight into being ill and/or disabled in higher education. I outline the context and details of the fibromyalgia study before discussing the participants' experiences of managing their fibromyalgia symptoms, managing their public and private selves and of being ill in academia. In the conclusion I return to the key issues of the ill and disabled body in academia, where I outline how managing the fibromyalgia body in academia represents a specific form of bodywork on the part of the individuals.

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