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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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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.

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

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Interdisciplinary workshop: intersectionality and the polycrisis

iHuman involved in Faculty workshop on interdisciplinarity

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But who owns the data?

Reflections on ownership in Participatory Action Research by Ankita Mishra