Ria Cheyne

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PhD School 2025: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities – the polyphony Conversations across the medical humanities

We're pleased to announce this collection of contributions to The Polyphony from attendees at the 2025 International PhD School on Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities, which took place in Durham in March 2025.

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Disability Matters Symposium 2026 Register on Humanitix - Disability Matters Symposium 2026 hosted by Disability Innovation Institute UNSW (DIIU) . Online. Monday 9th March 2026. Find event information.

More exciting events coming up! Our partner UNSW Disability Innovation Institute @disabilityunsw.bsky.social will be running an online symposium on emotional labour for people with disabilities on 10th March 2026. Details and registration: events.humanitix.com/disability-m...

Universal Design for the Workplace with Stuart Moore

A new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture with Stuart Moore of @nadsn.bsky.social has just dropped wherever podcasts can be found!
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Full transcript here: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

Solidarity with my colleagues who are experiencing this - as the leaflets we handed out to students on the picket lines said - when you go on strike you lose your wage because you stop working. It's ridiculous to have to make up the work you've already lost pay for 😡

Recommended!

No school tomorrow, which is great but I’ll have to 6-7 everything myself.

Received official notice today that my employer will be withholding 100% of pay for the next three weeks, to myself and all other members of @sheffielducu.bsky.social who refuse (as is our legal right, and our solidaristic duty) to reschedule classes cancelled due to strike action. Outrageous.

REDS Conference 2026 is open for registration REGISTER TO ATTEND THE ONLINE CONFERENCE HERE The Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference conference takes place online 12-6pm (GMT) on the 21st January and 8.00am-1pm (GMT) on …

Don't miss our session on Thursday at 9.35am at this year's REDS conference! We'll be presenting “Empowering Established Researchers to Both Access and Enable Cultures of Development".

Registration is still open here: redsconference.co.uk/2025/09/15/r...

Join us on 29 Jan at 2 pm GMT for our next Ethics of Medical Photography Network online seminar on the theme of SENSITIVITY! We'll have three incredible speakers: @ermerlindaj.bsky.social @katrawling.bsky.social and Savannah Dodd. Free but registration needed empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2026/01/16/s...

Online Ticket: Anti-Ableism in Children’s Material Culture: Seminar 1 The first hybrid seminar in the series based at Queen Margaret University, will examine anti-ableism through toys and play.

Research Associate Christina Lee will be presenting at the Building Anti-Ableism Through Representation in Children’s Material Culture seminar series on February 26th. Register for the hybrid event here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-tic...

YouTube video by Jemina Napier BSL Menstrual Health workshop video

Free Training Workshops on how to improve employment for #disabled and #neurodivergent employees, and those having to manage their menstrual health.

Two dates - 6 March & 1 May will be led in #BSL, suitable for deaf employees & interpreters. Watch video for info./1

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Building Tour and Heritage Talk - Settlement Bedrooms: A Room of their Own Building Tour and Heritage Talk - Settlement Bedrooms: A Room of their Own, 1883-1920 by Lucinda Matthews-Jones.

For anyone in London I’m going to be giving a paper on settlement bedrooms on 19th February, 6.30-8.00. I’ll share titbits on how they were used by settlers&wardens. I’ll also discuss servants too! This will be with a building tour of Oxford House, Bethnal Green! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-t...

Poe: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of eureka
Poe: it's actually a scientific meditation on the nature of the universe
Barker: is this one of those things where you have to be high to get it
Barker: cuz if it is, i want to know now

Steady on now, you wouldn't want to jump the gun!

I’m doing a live thing in two weeks, come hang out

Heated Rivalry and sports romance genre can teach lessons about queer inclusion Heated Rivalry has become a massive global hit, but can the steamy ice hockey romance, and other queer love stories, help create more inclusive spaces in the real sporting world?

Loved seeing Australian queer sports romances highlighted in this Heated Rivalry piece by my colleague @kaseysymons.bsky.social !

ICYMI: Wellcome Anti-ableist Research Culture (WAARC) will be running another webinar on Dreaming up a Disability Inclusive Workplace on 28th Jan 2026. Details and registration here: www.tickettailor.com/events/wellc...

Today @advancehe.bsky.social published the Disabled Student Commitment Year Two Report, highlighting all the work that has happened around the DSC over the last year. I had a great time annotating it to highlight all the ways we've been involved here at Leeds 😊 advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hu...

[scottish castle]
JK Rowling's agent: hey joanne
agent: you wanted to see me?
JK Rowling: yesss
Rowling: i want to enquire
Rowling: how are sssales of the hallmarked man?
agent:
agent: sales of what?
Rowling: the latesst cormoron ssstrike book
agent:
agent: you're still writing cormoron strike?

List of reasons why we don't use AI in class

I'm constantly revising my list of reasons why we don't use AI in my class. This one is specific to a first-year writing intensive. Free to borrow/adapt! 🙂

Awards Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and…

Nominations are now open for the @nursingclio.bsky.social Prize for Best Journal Article, an award for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and medical histories in English. Self-nominations are encouraged! 🗃️

Totally made up figure, but it feels like about 90% of our casework with disabled students is wrangling group work, and especially any that has a live feedback or presentation element. MANY students find this stuff hard, and many disabled students find it deeply inaccessible and exclusionary

Text reads Forum: Creative History in the Classroom (Guest Editors: Lucinda Matthews-Jones and Catherine Feely) DOpen Access Making and Defining the Creative History Classroom: An Introduction LUCINDA MATTHEWS-JONES Pages: 662-677 | First Published: 27 November 2025 Abstract Full text PDF Request permissions Ô Open Access Ragged Histories: Textiles, Craft and Creative History ANDREA KORDA, MARY ELIZABETH LEIGHTON, VANESSA WARNE Pages: 678-690 | First Published: 24 July 2025 Abstract Full text PDF Request permissions B Open Access Sex and the Social Order: Creative Approaches to Teaching the History of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain LAURA HARRISON, ROSE WALLIS, ALEXIS EVANS, LIBBY EVERALL Pages: 691-701 | First Publish a0 A onlinelibrary.wiley.com - Private Abstract Funtext PUr Kequest permissions

B Open Access Creativity and Historical Inquiry in Digital Spaces: Perspectives from the Practice of Online Making JAMIE WOOD Pages: 702-712 | First Published: 30 October 2025 Abstract Full text PDF Request permissions dOpen Access Assessing History Creatively SARAH HOLLAND Pages: 713-724 | First Published: 27 November 2025 Abstract Full text PDF Request permissions B Open Access Creativity as Queer Praxis: History, Pedagogy and Academic Assessment SAM CASLIN Pages: 725-732 | First Published: 13 August 2025 Abstract Full text PDF Request permissions

It’s really lovely to see @cathfeely.bsky.social & my Creative History in the Classroom Forum out in @hisjournalha.bsky.social. There’s lots of suggestions here for using creativity from activities, assessments, to why now… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1468229x... #skyhistorians #highereducation

Night. The Department of Astrobiology building. One upper floor window is lit and a figure in it looks out and says "Dammit! Professor Monroe has all the luck!". In the car park outside, a second figure rises within a beam of light towards a flying saucer.

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. To order my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats', see here: www.tomgauld.com

This helped a lot, because the problem wasn't so much the students being late (it happens! and was at most mildly disruptive) as how that made me feel (frustrated, unvalued). Assuming that students are, in general, committed and doing their best genuinely improved my experience.

Also reminds me of one of the best pieces of advice I ever got re. teaching. As a new lecturer I was frustrated about students being late to class. A friend suggested I CHOOSE to believe that late students had done their very best to be there on time, and been prevented from doing so. [cont]

No worries! Been there 🙂
For this group maybe an open discussion with them about why it's important for them to be able to do it would be the place to start? Have them come up with some things to try.

A useful reference for anyone working in HE, especially the discussion of rent costs.