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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 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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Postcolonial disability studies

A new Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial has been published
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Disability Representations - Blog from visiting researcher - Ethan Patrick

Why do our ‘Fantasies’ never include disabled people?
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Disability Matters in Manchester

Dan Goodley gave the University of Manchester's  Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience (PCHN) Spring seminar on 6th March 2024. 
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Update from the Humanising Healthcare team

Humanising Healthcare is a co-produced research project dedicated to finding and sharing healthcare practices that enhance the lives of people with learning disabilities (including people with learning disabilities who are also autistic people).

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How the Disabled PGR group mentoring helped me be a better GTA

In this latest piece, we hear from disabled postgraduate researchers as they seek to promote inclusion in the university.