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Antonios standing in front of a sign for the Ponderosa Commons North building at the University of British Colombia

The Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Project at The University of British Columbia

Dr Antonios Ktenidis shares his experiences giving a presentation on the WAARC project at the University of British Columbia
Figure: Ben and Andrew from The Professors explore an exhibit on a trip to the Turner Prize show in Bradford.
Ben and Andrew from The Professors explore an exhibit on a trip to the Turner Prize show in Bradford.

The Professors: challenging dominant ideas about co-production through disability arts practice

Dr Cassie Kill reflects on working with The Professors, a learning disability artist collective whose creative, non-linear and embodied ways of working disrupt the ableist assumptions underpinning dominant models of participatory research.
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New paper: Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection

Colleagues in iHuman at the University of Sheffield have recently published a paper entitled ‘Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection’ in Data Science Journal. 
William Mager (centre) in signed conversation with members of the ‘Reunion’ cast and crew.

“It can almost feel like a lucky dip”: bringing film and TV subtitles up to standard

Blog: Dr Ryan Bramley spoke to William Mager - a producer, director, and scriptwriter for a new University of Sheffield film, ‘'How can we improve subtitles’.
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Disability Arts Practice as Methodology: a research visit to London

Dr Cassie Kill
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Blog: Why SDH (Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of Hearing) should be the standard

Dr Ryan Bramley sat down with Sophie Muller, Head of Voicebox, for a new film, ‘How can we improve subtitles’. Ahead of our launch later this year, we have published Sophie’s longer-form interview as a blog.

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Disability Matters hosts Cripping Knowledge Exchange workshop

Cripping Knowledge Exchange: How has your engagement with creative inclusive methods transformed your research and practice? 
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Celebrating and connecting PGRs within the iHuman network

Kate Montague-Hellen and Tom Ryan