Car fire survivor graduates from Ulster University

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Melanie Grimsley suffered severe burns as a result of the fire in 1988 and has told hoe she is using her experience to do something positive by working with visual difference charities

A Co Fermanagh woman who survived a car fire which led to the death of her sister has graduated from Ulster University.

It was during her Master’s that Melanie’s two areas of professional and personal interest began to come together – her love of law, and her interest in the area of disability discrimination, particularly in relation to the legal status of visible difference. "I want to challenge beauty ideals and stretch the concepts of disability and ‘normal’. I want to make people stare but in a good way.She initially completed the first year of her Master's online and said she found it difficult at times.

 

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