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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 research featured in Chat magazine

iHuman affiliated researcher Sally Whitney, who is a key co-researcher in the ESRC-funded Life, Death, Disability and the Human: Living Life to the Fullest, has been featured in Chat magazine.

Making connections to support disabled young people to live their lives

Making connections to support disabled young people to live their lives

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Reflections on transdisciplinary approaches to multilingualism, pre- and post- COVID19

Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield & James Simpson, University of Leeds
Sally Whitney with assistant dog Ethan

iHuman Research featured on BBC Ideas

iHuman-affiliated researcher Sally Whitney, key co-researcher on the ESRC project Life, Death, Disability and the Human: Living Life to the Fullest, has been featured on BBC Ideas.
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United Voice: Self-Advocacy in Malaysia in Covid times