Public engagement outputs from the WAARC team

Podcasts

• Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril's Massively Disabled: A long COVID research podcast series. You can find the transcripts of each episode here: https://www.massivelydisabled.com/

Disability justice zines at the Wellcome Collection

• WAARC team and others' Zine included in the Wellcome Collection (March 2025) - Imagining the anti-ableist university’ is a collection of frustrations, tensions, and hopes for the future of an anti-ableist university created by a collection of critical disability studies scholars and university professional services staff in the UK. The exhibition at the Wellcome collection was held 14 March - 14 September 2025.

• Through sharing some of our dialogues surrounding the concept of the anti-ableist university over the past 6 months, we encourage this zine to be read critically and engaged, critiqued, and used as a starting point for others to share their frustrations with and hopes for the anti-ableist university, whatever that may mean to you.  

• The zine has been received particularly well, and has garnered international readership. The Zine was  featured in the Wellcome Collection's show "Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice". Additionally, it has made appearances at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2025 in Birmingham, UK and at the American Association of Geographers' Annual Conference 2025 in Detroit, USA. Additionally, the zine can be found in Hull Zine Library in Kingston Upon Hull, UK and continues to be traded amongst zinesters in the North East of England and more broadly across the UK. 

• If you have a zine collection that you would like to add copies of 'Imagining the Anti-Ableist University' to, a PDF is available to download and print as a PDF at https://geoz.one/zines/anti-ableist-university/.

• This site also includes a text version with visual descriptions of each page, suitable for screen readers. Alternatively, get in touch with one of the editors, Daniel P. Jones at dpjones.photo@outlook.com.

Tourette syndrome research - Beyond 6 Seconds: Neurodiversity Stories

Tourette syndrome research - with Dr. Daniel P. Jones on the Beyond 6 Seconds: Neurodiversity Stories: 

• Dr. Daniel P. Jones is a Creative Practitioner, Disability Scholar, and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with WAARC at the University of Sheffield in the UK. He is now a Bridging Fellow at Durham University. 

• Daniel specializes in inclusive research methodologies, focusing on the embodied experiences of public spaces, kinship, and solidarity within Tourette syndrome communities. As someone who has lived experience of Tourette syndrome himself, he has been actively engaged in community facilitation and Tourette syndrome activism in the UK for over a decade. 

iHuman and School of Education contribution to first Critical Disability Studies Doctoral Course in Denmark

• The first Critical Disability Studies Doctoral course took place in Copenhagen between the 14th-15th November, 2024. Antonios Ktenidis, Katherine Runswick-Cole and Dan Goodley joined 26 researchers from across Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and the Faroe Islands. The course was convened by Professor Bjørg Kjær and Katrine Risbank Jensen, Danish School of Education, Aarhus Universitet.
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  iHuman and School of Education helps lead first Critical Disability Studies Doctoral Course in Denmark