WAARC Events
Bringing together and sharing our findings
2024
Easy Read write up of our launch event in December 2024
We've been lucky enough to work with one of our DPOs - Sheffield Voices - to produce an EasyRead write up of our launch event
2025
Humanising the System and Manifesto Face to Face Event
Wed 3 Dec 2025 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Millennium Gallery, Arundel Street, Sheffield, S1 2PP
Link to tickets - click here
WAARC is seeking to curate accessible events. To mark the International Day of Disabled Persons, you’re invited to a creative event exploring how we can make systems more caring and human. This event is for community members, practitioners, local authority staff, and people working in health, education, and social care services – anyone who wants to be part of making things better. Whether we call it "the system" or "the services" — it’s the web of relationships, rules, and routines that shape people’s everyday lives. Together, we’ll explore how to bring more compassion, care, and connection back into that web. We’ll hear from Sheffield Voices and Speakup Self-advocacy Rotherham — groups led by people with learning disabilities, including those who are neurodivergent. Their work will help us reflect on what humanising really means and what it might look like in practice. During the event Sheffield Voices and Speakup will launch the Reclaiming the Human in Healthcare Manifesto
Dreaming up a Disability Inclusive Workplace webinars and workshops
We're pleased to present a series of webinars and workshops on the theme of Dreaming up a Disability Inclusive Workplace hosted by the Wellcome Anti-ableist Research Culture (WAARC) project at the University of Sheffield and will run monthly between October 2025 and March 2026. Topics were chosen by surveying members of the National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) and we've curated workshops and talks from disabled professionals from a variety of backgrounds and industries.
Members of WAARC are also involved with Participatory Research Network who hold a number of events which can be found here
iHuman
How we understand being ‘human’ differs between disciplines and has changed radically over time. We are living in an age marked by rapid growth in knowledge about the human body and brain, and new technologies with the potential to change them.