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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
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Crisis or no crisis: labels matter

Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole, Professor in Education at the University of Sheffield.
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Disavowing Twitter in Covid-19 times

by Professor Dan Goodley
Animating Inclusion

Animating Inclusion: Towards Accessibility and Inclusion in Film & TV for Deaf Audiences

On Friday 17th November, we (Dr Kirsty Liddiard and Dr Ryan Bramley) hosted our first ever live screening of ‘Animating Inclusion’ - a short animated film exploring the (in)accessibility of the cinematic experience for Deaf people

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Interdisciplinary workshop: intersectionality and the polycrisis

iHuman involved in Faculty workshop on interdisciplinarity

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But who owns the data?

Reflections on ownership in Participatory Action Research by Ankita Mishra