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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
artistic visualisation from the joy in social research event
Artwork by Liam Callebout.

Joy in Social Research

This blog reflects on the ‘Joy in Social Research’ event, which created space for postgraduate and early career researchers to collaborate and critically engage in the concept of joy. It was funded by the Participatory Research Network and iHuman.
A wooden art piece of the word Helsinki framed by a speech bubble.
An art piece found in the foyer of the Helsinki City Hall

Disability in Education & Work: A Blog from Helsinki, Finland

By Rhea Halsey
Two men looking at a screen with text on

Disability Matters in Manchester

Dan Goodley gave the University of Manchester's  Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience (PCHN) Spring seminar on 6th March 2024. 
Illustration of a doctor with in greyscale, with a red heart on top

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).

Image of Fiona holding a tortoiseshell cat

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.
Monkey sat on a wall, with a moped in foreground

Disability Matters: Online Symposium and Lectures

Dan Goodley is in New Delhi this week to follow up with Indian disabled researcher colleagues who are working on the Disability Matters programme.

Being Human During Covid-19
Bristol University Press

Being Human during COVID-19

Editors Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce have given us an excellent new collection of essays with fresh, global perspectives on the sociology and politics of the pandemic.