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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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iHuman builds its links with Chilean researchers

Constanza López Radrigán joins the Marginalised Human theme and Critical Disability Studies community to share research and scholarship
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Why do governments not follow their own ethical advice in times of crisis?

Ethics and Expertise Beyond Times of Crisis: Learning from international varieties of ethics advice

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Focus on patients’ stories

by Eva Hilberg, PhD and Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek, PhD
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Futuristic Healthcare

by Eva Hilberg, PhD
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Research update: British Academy and Leverhulme funded research project around experiences of autistic adults: we made a thing!

The research undertaken by TUOS, Sheffield Hallam University and 11 autistic adults working as experts by experience for the named project is nearly complete