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Do you use ventilation (bipap/trach/NIV)? Do you want to share your story? We're looking for adults in the UK to take part in two online research interviews about their experiences. For more info and to request an information sheet: sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
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Check out our new information page with films and BSL 👌
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Important new blog post: SMA Awareness Month: Personal reflections on mouthpiece ventilation
Check it out! 👍
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A poster for the project, either black on a white background, or white on a black background. The text says: “www.cripticarts.org/R&J Casting: Romeo & Juliet - Title roles & design creative - London - 2025-2027 Seeking ventilation users who want to be paid to train, perform, or work on an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet while adding to research into what it means to be living ventilated. No theatre experience required. Deadline 26th August 2025 Open to anyone who uses bipap/NIV/tracheostomy” At the bottom are logos for CRIPtic Arts, the Wellcome Trust, University of Sheffield and Arts Council England The poster contains a photo of Jamie rehearsing or performing. They are wearing a hospital gown and ventilator mask.
Do you use #ventilation (bipap/trach/NIV)? Are you interested in theatre? Are you within reach of London? Would you like to work on, or star in, a new adaption of Romeo & Juliet while adding to research on what it means to be ventilated? Find out more at www.cripticarts.org/R&J
06.08.2025 08:05 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0A new blog post from our Community Researcher, Amanda, on living with rare disease:
"Having your disease announced as a question, or as a joke, as you lie in a hospital bed, unable to move, is upsetting. It is a trigger to the times you struggled to be believed."
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Come and join our next public event 🙌🏽
My life with ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders event
#Online #BSL
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*New Blog Post!* Cripping Breath abroad: Conference attendance and considering access www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
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30.06.2025 22:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely loved chatting about all things breath with my Cripping Breath colleagues ❤️ Read about how we are reimagining what ‘reading’ together looks like
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Thrilled for this article to be out - open access, so take a look! @crippingbreath.bsky.social
Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies
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Our first project article co-authored as a full team!
*Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies*
Check it out here, open access #DisabilityResearch
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One of our recent articles published in Frontiers in Sociology just reached a new impact milestone.
Here is the link if you would like to read our study: www.frontiersin.org/article/1600...
Take a look at how our new project reading group went! Our Community Researchers, Artists-in-Residence, academic researchers and clinicians coming together to explore breathing in literature 🙌🏽
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A great blog post about Revisiting access and inclusion in research methods by our project friends in the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture (WAARC) project at the University of Sheffield.
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Don't forget - we are recruiting Artist Collaborators! Learn more about this fabulous opportunity here!
These artists will participate in a collaborative residency alongside Artist-in-Residence Dr Louise Atkinson.
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...these are conversations we cannot & do not want to avoid [...] we need to find a way to sensitively consider proximity to death and the fragility of life as a reality in our work' - Julie Ellis
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**New Blog post** #10 ‘Sitting’ with sadness: death and loss in research by our brilliant Dr Julie Ellis
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Our research associate Grace Joseph was in Germany last week at the International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference talking about Cripping Breath 🥳
Blog post coming soon!
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The Evolution of Lungs - In Our Time
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We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week!
Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽
Take a look via the link below!
We have a new member of our Clinical Advisory Group - Joe Purdey - learn more about Joe and our other clinical advisors here 🙌🏽 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
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A ventilated person sat at a desk against a pink background; Image by Josh Slack, Inertia Creative; modified by Louise Atkinson
We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week!
Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽
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'Every single human being has the basic human right and need to breathe, and it costs nothing, after all the air we breathe is free. Or is it?'
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** Opportunity**
We want to recruit 3 disabled, chronically ill, & ventilated contemporary artists who require ventilatory support, such as non-invasive ventilation like CPAP or BIPAP, or other forms like a tracheostomy
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Please share widely! 🙌🏽
Our brilliant Community Researcher Libby has had her team blogpost republished on external blog, The Cost of Living 🙌🏽 Congratulations, Libby!
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@crippingbreath.bsky.social is launching its Artist Collaborator Recruitment today! 🙌
Please take a look at the link and share widely! www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
Please see this link for all information that relates to this image: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/intersections-of-sociology-with-crip-theory-critical-disability-studies-and-mad-studies/
Our brilliant Research Associate & Community Research Lead @drsuzanneglover.bsky.social is speaking at this great event 🙌🏽
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Couldn't make it to our Pint of Science event? No worries - catch it here!
Blog post #9 Let’s talk breath and politics
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Great to see this coming out of Sheffield - Readable research: We produce clear, simple summaries of scientific research hot off the press.
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'The cost of breathing is something that most never need to think about, but for those who rely on ventilators, many face an uncertain financial future without radical change to recognise that assisted breathing is an essential cost...'
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