{"id":2050,"date":"2014-02-24T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T16:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2014-02-24T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T16:10:36","slug":"life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera-a-paralympians-perspective-on-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2014\/02\/24\/life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera-a-paralympians-perspective-on-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLife in front of and behind the camera; a Paralympian\u2019s perspective on disability\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a talk where Kate Grey will share her experiences of training, studying and competing as a Paralympian for Beijing in 2008 and preparing for London 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Although Kate was not able to qualify for London 2012 due to illness she was able to take an active role on reporting the games for the BBC. As part of this talk Kate will also consider whether or not attitudes towards disability have changed as a result of the increased media focus on the Paralympics and what this might mean for Rio 2016.<\/p>\n<p>To attend please book via these links: <a title=\"BU Students\/Public\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera-a-paralympians-perspective-on-disability-tickets-10448717395\" target=\"_blank\">BU Students\/public<\/a> and <a title=\"BU Staff\" href=\"https:\/\/staffintranet.bournemouth.ac.uk\/login\/?redir=\/workingatbu\/staffdevelopmentandengagement\/staffengagement\/eatingdisorderawarenessweek\/kategreylifeinfrontofandbehindthecamera\/\" target=\"_blank\">BU Staff<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/02\/Kate-Grey-Life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2051\" alt=\"Kate Grey\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/02\/Kate-Grey-Life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera1.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/02\/Kate-Grey-Life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera1.jpg 595w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/02\/Kate-Grey-Life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera1-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/02\/Kate-Grey-Life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-cameraFinal2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2052\" alt=\"Kate Grey\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/02\/Kate-Grey-Life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-cameraFinal2.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/02\/Kate-Grey-Life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-cameraFinal2.jpg 595w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/02\/Kate-Grey-Life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-cameraFinal2-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a talk where Kate Grey will share her experiences of training, studying and competing as a Paralympian for Beijing in 2008 and preparing for London 2012. Although Kate was not able to qualify for London 2012 due to illness she was able to take an active role on reporting the games for the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2014\/02\/24\/life-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera-a-paralympians-perspective-on-disability\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about \u201cLife in front of and behind the camera; a Paralympian\u2019s perspective on disability\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,164],"tags":[289,102],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-speakers","category-news","tag-kate-grey","tag-london-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}