DisabilityMatters
@DisMatters
A six year international programme of disability, health and science. Wellcome Trust Award. Also on https://bsky.app/profile/dismatters.bsky.social
NEW EVENT!!📢We are super excited to launch our first Disability Matters online town hall circus 2025! Please join us on 19th Sep for conversations on how disability can drive innovative change and expand equity, diversity and inclusion in health research: tickettailor.com/events/disabil…
#DisabilityDialogues Our own Research Associate Christina Lee meditates on crip writing and what authorship means for chronically ill writers. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-wor…
We only have three tickets left for our online event tomorrow. Join us in exploring inclusive research cultures in higher education, specifically through the lens of disability. Grab your ticket now: tickettailor.com/events/disabil…
New event alert ✨ Join us in July to explore how we can shape inclusive research cultures. Find out more and book your ticket: tickettailor.com/events/disabil… @iHumanSheff @EducationSheff @SheffSocScience @crippingbreath
"The government [..] underestimated the power of the Disabled people’s movement. I believe that the MPs who listened to us will see through [...] these shambolic concessions." Our campaigner Mikey has written about today's vote for @BigIssue👇 bigissue.com/opinion/benefi…
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Very proud to share this special issue of Feminism and Psychology, co-edited with @rebeccalawthom ** Disability as a feminist issue ** It includes papers on trauma, affect, sexism, psycho-emotional disablism, care, contesting psy, sexuality & more! journals.sagepub.com/toc/FAP/current
A great blog post about Revisiting access and inclusion in research methods by our project friends in @WAARC_Sheffield ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.php?…
Did you know we have BSL interpretation supporting our event in July? Join us for a conversation on disability and inclusive research cultures - only two weeks away! Get your ticket: tickettailor.com/events/disabil… @crippingbreath @iHumanSheff @EducationSheff @SheffSocScience
We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week! Take a look via the link below to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽 @CRIPticArts @ace_national @battersea_arts @disabilityarts
We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week! Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽 sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-breat… @DisMatters @gracearjoseph @loubietheartist @KirstyLiddiard1
ICYMI - we have an upcoming online symposium in July! Make sure you register on the event page: tickettailor.com/events/disabil…
New event alert ✨ Join us in July to explore how we can shape inclusive research cultures. Find out more and book your ticket: tickettailor.com/events/disabil… @iHumanSheff @EducationSheff @SheffSocScience @crippingbreath
#DisabilityDialogues Our own wonderful Ankita Mishra reflects on her ongoing research and practice on community collaboration across transnational contexts and building meaningful partnerships as sites of resistance. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-wor…
#DisabilityDialogues Another piece from Christina Lee exploring what it means to hold dialogue with each other in the digital “post”-COVID age and points to the need to experiment with collaborative, creative ways of being together. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-wor…
Thank you again to our brilliant speakers and to everyone who attended the symposium! The recording and written papers are now available on our website: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disabil… We will be running more events soon so watch this space!
Amongst all the noise, we are sending our solidarity to all Disabled people watching on as we see our lives, our impairments and our survival debated in the halls of Parliament. Beyond the political spectacle, it is real lives that will be impacted by these cuts.
#DisabilityDialogues Cassie Kill writes about anti-ableism and the Welcome Hut as smaller hospitable spaces where we can experience the joy of missing out. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-wor…
#DisabilityDialogues Another brilliant piece from Daniel Jones who reflects on conflicts within ethnographic research on research cultures and asks how can we innovate and conduct research in inclusive ways sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-wor…
#DisabilityDialogues: Daniel Jones imagines a future of Tourettic Studies that shifts away from studying ‘syndrome’, and towards Tourettic culture, people, places, experiences, joys, woes, politics. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-wor…
#DisabilityDialogues Ruby Goodley on access as colleague: "When access becomes a colleague in our spaces, it will help to encourage interdependence between human beings." sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-wor…
📣News: It's been a busy month at Disability Matters! ➡️Our Programme Manager Rhea Halsey at the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) conference in Helsinki ➡️Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving: International Conversations in Toronto sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disabil…
📖We're so excited to launch our new co-production guide, with explainers on... 👉What co-production is 👉How it can benefit your work 👉How it can embed disability inclusion in your sector! Download it here! disabilityrightsuk.org/resources/co-p…