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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 and School of Education helps lead first Critical Disability Studies Doctoral Course in Denmark

The first Critical Disability Studies Doctoral course took place in Copenhagen between the 14th-15th November, 2024.
Book cover which reads: The Autistic Postgraduate Woman

New book highlights the unseen challenges of being an autistic woman in postgraduate education

Sophie Phillips shares her research with personal and collated lived experiences of neurodiversity in academia.

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Visiting PGR, Helen Evans, reflects on her first weeks in Sheffield.

Helen Evans is a visiting PGR focusing on Inclusive Research in the context of SEND Student Voice in FE. She shares her experience on an ESRC-funded academic placement with the WAARC team.

'Be Cancer Aware' as Disability Co-Production in Action

Disability Matters teamed up with Humanising Healthcare to capture effective disability co-production on film
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International Workshop “Developing New Models for Pharmaceutical Innovation: towards a Mixed Economy”

By Andrew Bartlett and Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek