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iHuman Co-Director Dan Goodley joins the British Academy for their 10-Minute Talks series

Dan unpacks depathologisation in the university and the impact it can have on how we understand knowledge, power, and belonging.

Purple text: Participatory Research Network Blog

Our Experiences of the Participatory Research Network (PRN) Mentoring Scheme

Dr Armineh Soorenian and Jessica Breese

People sat around tables, using laptops and looking at people presenting at the front of the room

iHuman and Education Critical Disability Studies in Singapore

Prof Dan Goodley. Prof Rebecca Lawthom (Education/iHuman, University of Sheffield), Prof Meng Ee Wong and Kerri Heng Yi Ping hosted the Disability Matters Spring Institute 2026

Disability Dialogues logo, with an illustration of a sofa

Critical Disability Studies: Disability Dialogues - Reframing Families, Relationships and Society through Critical Disability Studies

Written by Charlie Grosset and Tom Ryan

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Cripping Breath: Co-reading as an inclusive practice in co-produced research 

By Julie Ellis and Kirsty Liddiard
A screenshot of the Hepworth Wakefield website, featuring the page on the Caroline Walker exhibition

Blog: The shock of the mundane: Acts of everyday mothering on canvas

By Jessica Bradley
A poster which reads "It's a beautiful thing, the distruction of words." George Orwell. It also lists a number of words and phrases discouraged by US Federal Agencies 2025

WAARC: A creative and anti-ableist higher education? Reflections from the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference

Liz Dew; Cassie Kill; Armineh Soorenian; Lauren White; Rebecca Lawthom
A wall of cuttings, drawings and scrawlings capturing some of the ambitions iHuman researchers have for Critical Disability Studies including slogans such as 'Love', 'Crip Killjoy', 'Work with bodies, desires and feelings', 'Difference, disagreement and conflict', 'remaking a different university differently'

A Manifesto for Critical Disability Studies

iHuman researchers had the opportunty to reimagine disability research through a creative workshop, developing a Manifesto for Critical Disability Studies
artistic visualisation from the joy in social research event

Joy in Social Research

This blog reflects on the ‘Joy in Social Research’ event, which created space for postgraduate and early career researchers to collaborate and critically engage in the concept of joy. It was funded by the Participatory Research Network and iHuman.