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2025

July 2025

We had a very successful online symposium "Professional Services, Disability & Inclusive Research Cultures" on 3rd July 2025, featuring our own Programme Manager Rhea Halsey, Lucy Dunning, and Liz Dew.

Watch the recording and read the papers here.

June 2025

Disability Matter's Christina Lee was a guest on the Ethics in Practice podcast. In this episode, Nicole Redvers and Christina Lee share their experience of resisting hierarchies and creating space for alternative ways of thinking and being in academia. They take us through Buddhist philosophy, feminism, crip theory, and indigenous law in the sub-Arctic region to close with three provocations that you can hold onto for our whole series:

• What if health isn’t about curing our body of the changes it endures? But about living well with those changes instead?
   
• What if research isn’t an act of knowledge creation? But a service to those who hold knowledge that is true for their context?
   
• What if bioethics as governance is not rooted in prevention of harm but reciprocity? Where we recognise how our well-being is squarely dependent on that of others including Nature itself.
   

May 2025 

Our own Programme Manager Rhea writes a blog on her recent experiences at the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) conference in Helsinki. Read the blog here. 

Ankita Mishra, Rhea Halsey, Christina Lee and Dan Goodley presented at the 30th May Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving: International Conversations hosted by Tanya Tichkosky and Elaine Cagulada, University of Toronto. All colleagues are members of the Disability Matters team.

March and April 2025

Members of the Disability Matters are working hard on plans for different phases of the Disability Matters programme. We are capturing some of our conceptual thinking in contributions to iHuman's Disability Dialogues 

And Ankita Mishra provides us with an update on Building Bridges in Disability Matters 

Dan Goodley has published a paper with Kirsty Liddiard and Rebecca Lawthom which draws on bureaucratic reflections  from the Disability Matters and Humanising Healthcare projects and is published in the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research - The Depathologising University

January 2025

Happy 2025! You might have missed this news feature on the University of Toronto website; Tanya Tichkosky and Elaine Cagulada share their aspirations for the research programme. 

We also welcome a new member to our team - Jodi Lamanna - who will be working with Jackie Leach Scully at the Disability Innovation Institute, University of New South Wales.

We are delighted to announce that Jackie Leach Scully has been has been named as one of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellows for 2024 and Dan Goodley has been made a Fellow of the British Academy.