Jude Schofield

Jude is an early career researcher based in the East Asian Languages and Cultures department, having passed their viva with minor corrections.

They have a first class honours in BA Japanese and Korean, and a distinction in MA Japanese Studies, both at SOAS. They are a former visiting fellow of Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. Jude is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and has taught on a number of East Asian Languages and Cultures modules, and currently teaches on Common Core I, a training module for first-year PhD students, run by the Doctoral School. 

They are also a 1:1 Study Skills tutor, and regularly run study skills workshops, and a freelance Disability Equity Consultant.

• Schofield, J. (2025) Inclusion or Segregation? The Specialist Subsidiary System for Accessibility in Japanese Workplaces in Review of Disability Studies (20, 1). Available via RDS at https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1354 [as Jenni Schofield]
• Schofield, J. (2025) “To be recognised as human is enough”: Tales from the intersection of queerness and disability in Metttasphere: Narrating identities across borders and media, ed. Facius, M., aliwen, and Janz, H. Torch Press. ISBN: 978-4-907562-57-1 C0070
• Schofield, J. (forthcoming) Embodied Experiences of Disability in Japanese Workplaces: Robots, Social Media, and Segregation. Palgrave Studies in Disability in Asia and the Pacific. Palgrave MacMillan.

Jude's research interests are disability and equitable access, accessibility, assistive technology, and neurodiversity. They also have an interest in queer and trans studies. They approach all of their research with an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens.

• Jenni Schofield