Prof Mershen Pillay

Mershen Pillay, SLT/A, currently at Massey University, also holds an honorary position at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Mershen developed EPIC with his long-time academic partner, Harsha Kathard as part of their work to decolonise professional education, research and practice.  Some of his recent work is about connecting persons with disabilities to their food sovereignty or music street traders to hearing and communication in the informal sector. Mershen uses complexity theory alongside feminist_, queer_, race/whiteness_, decolonial and critical disability studies