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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

Equality, diversity and inclusion in research. More than a tick box in a research ethics application.

The Participatory Research Network (PRN@TUoS) and the University Research Ethics Committee (UREC) engaged in a project to discuss the most appropriate way of advising on and addressing issues of ED&I in our research ethics policy and processes.
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IRDiRC – (Re)Act: A call for open data and more repurposing for rare disease medicine

By Matthew Hanchard
Matthew Hanchard speaking at World EPA Congress 2025 - Amsterdam

World EPA Congress 2025: The landing of AI and growing appetite for transferable exclusivity

By Matthew Hanchard
Themes featured in the concluding discussion with all workshop participants about existing knowledge and next steps, including: The more you know the more you realise you don’t know Keeping communication simple No clear process to follow Every project is bespoke in its data collection Intellectual property rights are built on colonial logic and western assumptions Identifying knowledge gaps Hidden knowledge in the university Old processes that don’t mesh with PR

"Negotiating the right to be named" – Reporting on the PRN’s Intellectual Property Rights and Participatory Research Training Workshop

On 25 June 2024, participatory researchers from across TUoS sat down with representatives from research and professional services to untangle how intellectual property rights and data protection legislation affect research design and partnerships.

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BLOG: ‘Why do you go away? So that you can come back.’

A blog by Helen Evans – a visiting PGR from the University of Birmingham.