Public engagement outputs from the WAARC team

Due to the wider work of our WAARC team we are fortunate to draw upon a plethora of resources that we might frame as public engagement:

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

WAARC team and others' Zine coming soon to 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. 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 is now 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 our editors, Daniel P. Jones at dpjones.photo@outlook.com

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 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sheffield in the UK. 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. 

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