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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
Garden in Delhi with the Indian flag aloft

iHuman in India

Preparations begin for a major new International Programme of Disability Studies research
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Working towards standardisation and collaboration across rare disease research

by Matthew Hanchard
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Reflections from a Cyborg: Telepresence teaching in Higher Education

Presenters will be presenting via telepresence robots
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Animating Inclusion

Dr Ryan Bramley and Dr Kirsty Liddiard, School of Education and iHuman, have just received Public Engagement Funding for a project entitled, Animating Inclusion.
Photo by Mika Baumeister

iHuman leads new work on cultural modelling of climate change on social media

Just Futures: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Climate Models