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Figure: Ben and Andrew from The Professors explore an exhibit on a trip to the Turner Prize show in Bradford.
Ben and Andrew from The Professors explore an exhibit on a trip to the Turner Prize show in Bradford.

The Professors: challenging dominant ideas about co-production through disability arts practice

Dr Cassie Kill reflects on working with The Professors, a learning disability artist collective whose creative, non-linear and embodied ways of working disrupt the ableist assumptions underpinning dominant models of participatory research.
Five people stand outside a building, smiling at the camera

New paper: Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection

Colleagues in iHuman at the University of Sheffield have recently published a paper entitled ‘Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection’ in Data Science Journal. 
William Mager (centre) in signed conversation with members of the ‘Reunion’ cast and crew.
William Mager (centre) in signed conversation with members of the ‘Reunion’ cast and crew, including lead Matthew Gurney (left), BSL Coach and Monitor Duffy (second right) and BSL Interpreter Kat Wright (right). Credit: BBC / Warp Films

“It can almost feel like a lucky dip”: bringing film and TV subtitles up to standard

Blog: Dr Ryan Bramley spoke to William Mager - a producer, director, and scriptwriter for a new University of Sheffield film, ‘'How can we improve subtitles’.
A sunny street outside Battersea Arts Centre, London
Image: a sunny street outside Battersea Arts Centre, London

Disability Arts Practice as Methodology: a research visit to London

Dr Cassie Kill
Our shielding sign on our front door

Surviving ableism in Covid Times: An Update

I wrote Surviving ableism in Covid Times right at the beginning of the pandemic - around a week after I’d begun to shield and before the government had even officially constructed, or mentioned, shielding. This is an update.
The hands of an elderly person

Surviving ableism in Covid Times

'Only the vulnerable will be at risk… but your ‘only’ is my everything'
Kirsty Liddiard, Senior Research Fellow, School of Education and iHuman, University of Sheffield (
Remaking education in (post) Covid times

Remaking education in (post) Covid times

by Anna Pilson
Black text on a white background, which reads: Mix + Match, constituting racialised communities in UK stem cell donation

Stem cells in the air now!

Stem cell infrastructural resilience during a pandemic
by Dr Ros Williams, Lecturer in Digital Media and Society, Sociological Studies and iHuman, University of Sheffield
Cows in a dairy farm

Animal Exploitation and COVID-19: Is the darkest hour just before the dawn?

by Dr Alasdair Cochrane, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory