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An update on the work of the Network for Researchers with Speech Impairments/Differences

Anita Ghai is seen in her wheelchair, wearing a bright pink dress. On the left is Sandeep Singh wearing an orange top and cream trousers. On the right stands Dan Goodley, wearing a flat cap, blue shirt and trousers. All are smiling together outside a building entrance.
Anita Ghai, Sandeep Singh and Dan Goodley

Professor Anita Ghai, Rest in Power

Use of real-world data in drug development

World Orphan Drug Congress 2024 – Barcelona

by Matthew Hanchard
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Anti-Frontiers in Zineing: Zines as Process & the Politics of Refusal

Zines are becoming increasingly popular in academic spaces. Whilst this is widely celebrated, what are the risks of mainstreaming zine culture?
Wording reads 'think'

Thinking about the human; thinking relationally

The symposium brings together researchers across the human and social sciences to pause and think about how the human might be understood, theorised and conceptualised in these turbulent political times.
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Employing disabled people: how and why the workplace can be transformed

Disability researchers Sally Whitney, Lucy Watts (MBE) and Rachael Black have come together to create a set of resources to guide employers on employing disabled people.
Toronto, Canada

iHuman doctoral researchers establish networks in Toronto, Canada

iHuman doctoral researchers in the School of Education, Lindsay Miller and Michael Miller, recently returned from a three-day stay in Toronto, Canada.

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Interventions in Disabled Childhood Studies

How might we foreground the perspectives of disabled children and young people? To what extent can research work productively with disabled children as co-researchers?

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Co-creating a research toolkit

On Tuesday 7th May, School of Education and iHuman Research Fellow Kirsty Liddiard visited Greenacre School, Barnsley, to begin planning the Living Life to the Fullest Co-Production Toolkit.