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Critical Disability Studies: Disability Dialogues - Reframing Families, Relationships and Society through Critical Disability Studies

Written by Charlie Grosset and Tom Ryan

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Image credit: photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash

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

By Julie Ellis and Kirsty Liddiard
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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: 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
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Storying disability: Wrecking disability

On 27 June 2018, iHuman hosted a symposium in which key international academics grappling with the relationships between disability and narrative.

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Rewriting sex education

On Thursday 21 June, Dr Kirsty Liddiard, from the School of Education and iHuman, was invited to participate in the Sheffield Sexual Health Network’s new Sex and Relationship Education Task Group at Scotiaworks.

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Engaging with Parliament

On 15 June 2018, Dr Kirsty Liddiard and Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole went to the Buckley Innovation Centre, Huddersfield University, to participate in a workshop entitled ‘Research, Impact and the UK Parliament.'
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European Children's Rights Unit

On 13 June, Dr Kirsty Liddiard, from the School of Education and Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman) was invited to speak to the European Children’s Rights Unit at the Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool.
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Antonios Ktenidis' secondment to Melbourne

Antonios Ktenidis has recently been on a two-month (February-March 2018) secondment to Melbourne for the Makey project, looking into how accessible makerspaces are to disabled students.