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A screenshot of the Hepworth Wakefield website, featuring the page on the Caroline Walker exhibition
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
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.
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.

Animating Inclusion

Animating Inclusion: Towards Accessibility and Inclusion in Film & TV for Deaf Audiences

On Friday 17th November, we (Dr Kirsty Liddiard and Dr Ryan Bramley) hosted our first ever live screening of ‘Animating Inclusion’ - a short animated film exploring the (in)accessibility of the cinematic experience for Deaf people

Image of lecturn and powerpoint presentation

Interdisciplinary workshop: intersectionality and the polycrisis

iHuman involved in Faculty workshop on interdisciplinarity

a relaxing view of the sea

But who owns the data?

Reflections on ownership in Participatory Action Research by Ankita Mishra
disability matters logo

Disability Matters launched and Online symposia details

September 2023 brings the launch of a new six year programme of research funded by a Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award