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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. 
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Interdisciplinary workshop: intersectionality and the polycrisis

iHuman involved in Faculty workshop on interdisciplinarity

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But who owns the data?

Reflections on ownership in Participatory Action Research by Ankita Mishra
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Disability Matters launched and Online symposia details

September 2023 brings the launch of a new six year programme of research funded by a Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award
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Promoting Anti-Racist & Anti-Disablist Research Cultures Symposium

On the 12th of July 2023, Antonios Ktenidis (Lead of the Identity and Marginalised Communities Research Cluster) and Alex Mason (Project Manager for the Centre for Equity and Inclusion) organised and hosted the ‘Promoting Anti-Racist & Anti-Disablist
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Towards joyful ways of learning

What is it about joy? What does it mean? Is it frivolous or juvenile to sit with joy, to seek it, to crave it, to feel it? What does it mean to ‘find’ it?