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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
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.
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Why do governments not follow their own ethical advice in times of crisis?

Ethics and Expertise Beyond Times of Crisis: Learning from international varieties of ethics advice

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Research update: British Academy and Leverhulme funded research project around experiences of autistic adults: we made a thing!

The research undertaken by TUOS, Sheffield Hallam University and 11 autistic adults working as experts by experience for the named project is nearly complete
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TAS and Disabled Young People End of Project conference

The TAS and DYP team celebrated the end of project with a one day conference on the 26th April held at the University of Sheffield.
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Navigating Ethical Landscapes Symposium

On the 29th March 2023, the Identity and Marginalised Communities research cluster and iHuman held a hybrid symposium on 'Navigating Ethical Landscapes', organised by Dr Antonios Ktenidis.

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Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health

Dan Goodley and Kirsty Liddiard discuss the relationship between critical disability studies and medical humanities in this podcast episode