Yes, happy to make the connection. Could you DM me your email address and I’ll send an email introduction? Also, I’d love to join the network if possible?
17.06.2025 11:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Andy at conference
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Nice to be present for a moment of transformation in Italy with their new disability personalisation law introducing self-directed support, sharing lessons from UK w @Melanie Nind Su Base Du Uguaglianza’ - ‘’The Basis of Equality’ #disabilityrights #personalisation #IndependentLiving
10.06.2025 08:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Vulnerability in action: the role of the disabled body in shaping geographies of protest
Protest has been a long-held concern of geographers who have examined the socio-spatial practices of activists and social movements. Yet, within this corpus of work, limited attention has been paid...
New published article with Angharad Butler-Rees 📰 which seems very pertinent given current disability protests against new benefit reform - Vulnerability in action: the role of the disabled body in shaping geographies of protest.
#disability #protest #DirectAction
18.03.2025 13:22 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
New Open Access paper on neurodiversity-affirmative autism assessment : https://doi.org/10.1177/27546330241274674
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We’re a network of people and organisations working to make health and social care more personalised, so that everybody can live life their way. thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk
A UK based creative campaign and community focussed on the Human Rights of Autistic people and people with Learning Disabilities.
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A training and development organisation passionate about bringing people together to uphold the rights of people with learning disabilities to live good ordinary lives. We love to challenge the barriers and system thinking that gets in the way!
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Support that connects, builds independence and challenges you to do even more.
Life is about more than a support provider it's about living.
One of the convenors of Social Care Future https://socialcarefuture.org.uk/ Gooner. Love lots of people and things. Living with cancer
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Finding creative, quirky ways to think about care & wellbeing. Co founder When I Get Old www.WIGO.org.uk. Roles @TLAP.bsky.social @Commcats.bsky.social @learningdiseng.bsky.social
Progressive politics, equality, environmentalism, pro- Europe (and more). Used to do things nationally around disability. Now retired & trying to make sense of it all, helping to develop an age friendly community & appreciating the natural world.
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Philosopher and social activist with interest in self-directed support, basic income, neighbourhood democracy, neighbourhood care and anything else that helps create a world where everyone matters (and chippy Northerner). https://citizen-network.org
Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/social-policy/glasby-jon) and Director of IMPACT (https://impact.bham.ac.uk/)
Delivery Director at IMPOWER, Trustee AFG, NHS Assembly Member.
Author: Escaping the Invisible Asylum (Policy Press). AlexFoxBlog.wordpress.com
Former: CEO, Shared Lives Plus; Vice chair, Think Local Act Personal.
The National Development Team for Inclusion. Inspiring an inclusive society where people can live the life they choose.
We are working in partnership with practice and the public to build research systems and enhance the evidence base to improve adult social care.
