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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.
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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
A notebook and pen on a wooden surface

An existential crisis? Writing and researching in a pandemic

by Dan Goodley
People holding miniature figurines

Follow the science, just not that one! Inequality, bias and UK science advice.

Rokia Ballo (UCL) & Warren Pearce (University of Sheffield)
Chipboard with graffiti writing 'Scamdemic'

Imagining the pandemic public: conspiracy-minded or healthily sceptical?

by Dr Warren Pearce
Six tall terraced houses shown from across a canal in Utrecht. Railings in the foreground.

Social pharmaceutical innovations (SPINs) in an era of orphanisation

by Matthew Hanchard
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Creative workshop: picturing experiences of a rare disease

A creative workshop was held in March 2023 in collaboration with an artist and clinical practitioners.