WAARC: A Wellcome Trust Institutional Funding for Research Culture Award

Promoting Anti-ableism in the University

WAARC: Anti-Ableist Research Culture

The WAARC logo reading 'WAARC - Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture'

For an accessible introduction to our project

Easy read summary of our launch events produced by Sheffield Voices

Our three Priority Areas

Three disabled researchers and two assistance dogs sat at an office table — Collaborative analysis

Anti-ableist environments

Experimenting with new ideas for inclusive recruitment and employment

A link to our page on anti-ableist environments

Fabric with the words 'crip time' embroidered on them

Anti-ableist developments

Accessible university events and inclusive research methods training

A link to our page on anti-ableist developments

people conversing

Collaborative inquiry

Putting disabled people front and centre of research culture inquiry

A link to our page on collaborative inquiry

Knowledge Exchange

Anti-ableist resources

Resources to support your anti-ableist work

Resources to support your anti-ableist work

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Disabled people's organisations

We will be working in collaboration with disabled people's organisations

A link to details of our non-academic partners

The WAARC logo reading 'WAARC - Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture'

Project Updates

Find out more about how our Priority Areas and Cross-cutting themes are progressing

A link to the WAARC progress page

Close-up of the stained window at the wave building cafe

The WAARC team

Meet the team

More details of the WAARC team

A warm-toned embroidery using mostly long stitches. It portrays a naked sleeping femme with light brown skin. Her head is adorned with an elaborate multicoloured structured headress. She rests on what look likes a black coffin and behind her is a burst of light that covers the entire background. — "Still She Sleeps?", embroidery by Zoë Middleton

Disabled Staff Exhibit

An ongoing digital exhibit of art and crafts submitted by disabled and chronically ill staff members of the University of Sheffield.

Visit the digital exhibit

Image 'wheelchair barbie from the 90s hangs with the disability politics books" by Liz Henry is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.

WAARC events

Key events from the WAARC team

Key events from the WAARC team

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Cripping Research Culture Podcast

WAARC presents "Cripping Research Culture", a podcast that asks the question: "How can we make better working conditions for disabled staff in higher education?".

An image of a banner used by members of the disabled people's movement in the UK reading 'Disabled People Fightback - Nothing about us without us'. Exhibited at the https://phm.org.uk/exhibitions/nothing-about-us-without-us/. Photo by D.Goodley, October 2023 — An image of a banner used by members of the disabled people's movement in the UK reading 'Disabled People Fightback - Nothing about us without us'. Exhibited at the https://phm.org.uk/exhibitions/nothing-about-us-without-us/. Photo by D.Goodley, October 2

WAARC Emerging Headlines

Emerging findings and recommendations from the project