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Cripping Breath: Co-reading as an inclusive practice in co-produced research 

By Julie Ellis and Kirsty Liddiard
A screenshot of the Hepworth Wakefield website, featuring the page on the Caroline Walker exhibition
Caroline Walker: Mothering, The Hepworth Wakefield website

Blog: The shock of the mundane: Acts of everyday mothering on canvas

By Jessica Bradley
A poster which reads "It's a beautiful thing, the distruction of words." George Orwell. It also lists a number of words and phrases discouraged by US Federal Agencies 2025

WAARC Blog: A creative and anti-ableist higher education? Reflections from the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference

Liz Dew; Cassie Kill; Armineh Soorenian; Lauren White; Rebecca Lawthom
A wall of cuttings, drawings and scrawlings capturing some of the ambitions iHuman researchers have for Critical Disability Studies including slogans such as 'Love', 'Crip Killjoy', 'Work with bodies, desires and feelings', 'Difference, disagreement and conflict', 'remaking a different university differently'

A Manifesto for Critical Disability Studies

iHuman researchers had the opportunty to reimagine disability research through a creative workshop, developing a Manifesto for Critical Disability Studies
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Multilingualism at Sheffield 2019

You are warmly welcome to a series of events across the University which focus on interdisciplinary perspectives on Multilingualism.

iHuman connecting with Self-advocacy

iHuman connecting with Self-advocacy

Dan Goodley met with local self-advocacy group Sheffield Voices to discuss ideas for research collaboration. 
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‘Responsible Stagnation’ at the HERSS Summer School on Responsible Innovation Cultures

On 14th October, iHuman research fellow Stevienna de Saille delivered the opening keynote address for the 5th annual German Summer School of Higher Education Research and Science Studies (HERSS) at the Technical University of Munich.

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Making “Memories” in Toronto

Dr Fogg and Professor Runswick-Cole travelled to Toronto to take part in a story-telling workshop as part of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded project – Re-Storying Autism.

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University research included in exhibition ‘Co-producing critical heritage’

Artworks produced in collaboration with School of Education, Literacies Research Cluster and iHuman research are included in a solo exhibition by artist-researcher Dr Louise Atkinson in the School of Design at the University of Leeds.