Disability Matters

My Life with Ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders Event An information evening exploring ventilation and respiration among people with muscle-weakening conditions.

Come and join our next public event 🙌🏽

My life with ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders event

#Online #BSL

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#DisabilityDialogues Armineh Soorenian and Liz Dew write about negotiating access barriers during fieldwork and interdependent relationship of crip solidarity as anti-ableist practice. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

#DisabilityDialogues Armineh Soorenian writes about building a beautiful and forgiving community of care and exploring access in practice with other researchers. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

#DisabilityDialogues Our own wonderful Ankita Mishra reflects on her ongoing research and practice on community collaboration across transnational contexts and building meaningful partnerships as sites of resistance. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

Disability Matters Online Town Hall Circus Annual Online Town halls aimed at science and health funders, policy makers and researchers based across universities, NGOs and DPOs

The online town hall circus will feature short provocations from the Sheffield Disability Matters team and a panel discussion with Prof Kate Sang and Dr Katherine Deane, as well as opportunities to network with other researchers and organisations: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

NEW EVENT!! 📣We are super excited to launch our first Disability Matters online town hall circus 2025! Please join us on 19th Sep for conversations on how disability can drive innovative change and expand equity, diversity and inclusion in health research: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

#DisabilityDialogues Another piece from Christina Lee exploring what it means to hold dialogue with each other in the digital “post”-COVID age and points to the need to experiment with collaborative, creative ways of being together. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

Thank you again to our brilliant speakers and to everyone who attended the symposium! Lots of fantastic questions and ideas to think about

The recording and written papers are now available on our website: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

We will be running more events soon so watch this space!

#DisabilityDialogues Our own Research Associate Christina Lee meditates on crip writing and what authorship means for chronically ill writers. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

We only have three tickets left for our online event tomorrow.

Join us in exploring inclusive research cultures in higher education, specifically through the lens of disability.
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With the UC and PIP Bill having it's second reading today, we're using #CoproductionWeek as an opportunity to say:

Any reform to disability benefits should start and end with Disabled people and our lived experience. This bill MUST be voted down.

Frontiers | Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies IntroductionOur contributions within this article emerge from our experiences of co-leading a new Wellcome Discovery Award funded project, Cripping Breath: T...

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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#DisabilityDialogues Cassie Kill writes about anti-ableism and the Welcome Hut as smaller hospitable spaces where we can experience the joy of missing out. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

#DisabilityDialogues Another brilliant piece from Daniel Jones who reflects on conflicts within ethnographic research on research cultures and asks how can we innovate and conduct research in inclusive ways www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

Feminism & Psychology - Volume 35, Number 2 Table of contents for Feminism & Psychology, 35, 2

Very proud to share this special issue of Feminism and Psychology, co-edited with Rebecca Lawthom

** Disability as a feminist issue **

It includes papers on trauma, affect, sexism, psycho-emotional disablism, care, contesting psy, sexuality & more!

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GMCDP information session about the disability cuts Green Paper.
Online on Wed 25 June, 6.30-8pm.
https://gmcdp.com/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=468

Please feel free to share widely - anyone who will be affected by the proposals and allies are welcome.

Kayla
NADSN Intersectionality Co-Lead

Did you know we have BSL interpretation supporting our event in July?
Join us for a conversation on disability and inclusive research cultures - only two weeks away!

🧪 Are you a UK-based researcher? Your voice matters.

Take 15 mins to share how funding pressures, culture shifts & assessments impact your ability to engage the public. 🗣️📊

Survey by @royalsociety & @TechnopolisGrp 👉 https://www.research.net/r/RS_public_engagement_25

#DisabilityDialogues: Daniel Jones imagines a future of Tourettic Studies that shifts away from studying ‘syndrome’, and towards Tourettic culture, people, places, experiences, joys, woes, politics. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

#DisabilityDialogues Ruby Goodley on access as colleague: "When access becomes a colleague in our spaces, it will help to encourage interdependence between human beings." www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

News Latest news from the Disability Matters team

📣New updates: It's been a busy month at Disability Matters!

➡️Our Programme Manager Rhea Halsey at the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) conference in Helsinki
➡️Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving: International Conversations in Toronto

Read more:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

ICYMI: Have you registered for our upcoming July online symposium yet? More details on our events page: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

More from #DisabilityDialogues: Bev Enion asks how do we share and collaborate in our findings with audiences beyond the university and calls on researchers to move away from inaccessible jargon and adapt to the needs of disabled people: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

Disability in Education & Work: A Blog from Helsinki, Finland By Rhea Halsey

Our very own Programme Manager Rhea reflects on her recent trip to Helsinki for the NNDR conference @helsinki.fi shorturl.at/fzy7y

You can also find details of an upcoming event if you read until the end 🎟️

From #DisabilyDialogues: In 'Dancing on Thin Ice: Adventures in Reconciling the Deaf Studies/Disability Studies Divide', Ryan Bramley writes about disciplinary tensions when working in Deaf Studies and Disabilitly Studies. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

A laptop on a desk surrounded by crumpled notes and papers. An overlaying title reads "Professional Services, Disability & Inclusive Research Cultures. And online talk and discussion by Disability Matters".

New event alert ✨ Join us on 3rd July for a online talk and discussion featuring our own Programme Manager Rhea, joined by Liz and Lucy.

We will also have the wonderful @dangoodley.bsky.social as chair.

Find out more and book your ticket: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

Like most other disciplines, accessibility takes practice, time, and patience. No one starts a new endeavor and is instantly excellent at it with nothing to learn. If your beginning goal is absolute perfection, you'll burn out. You'll find excuses to not try. Get started and try.

Join us on Wed 21 May at 5PM for an inspiring hybrid event led by Amy Jennison-Boyle and Dr. Roger Newport.
This session invites neurodivergent individuals to share their experiences, enriching research at Loughborough University.
All welcome!
For details, contact Amy a.jennis-boyle@lboro.ac.uk.

Hi, thanks for your question. Yes, many of our contributors identify as disabled themselves and work closely with disabled people as co-authors in their research.

Our first piece is from Turana Abdullayeva, a third-year PhD student in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Turana challenges traditional approaches to disability and accessibility. Read her piece on our website and share your thoughts with us: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...