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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
Sally Whitney with assistant dog Ethan

The Canine Care Project
Southbank in Melbourne, Australia

Australia Launch of Co-Production Toolkit

Dan Goodley launched the Living Life to the Fullest toolkit in Melbourne Australia.

Person drawing in a classroom

Research in the classroom

On Friday 7 February, Dr Kirsty Liddiard went to Greenacre School in Barnsley to co-run a workshop for teachers and school leaders on the benefits of research as pedagogy for disabled children and young people in SEN/D schools.
Apartment buildings across a river

Towards a global housing studies: beyond dichotomy, normativity and common abstraction

A global orientation within housing studies can sometimes be hampered by the tendency within academic research toward an empirical and theoretical separation between the “Global South” and “Global North”.