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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. 
Sally Whitney with assistant dog Ethan

iHuman Research featured on BBC Ideas

iHuman-affiliated researcher Sally Whitney, key co-researcher on the ESRC project Life, Death, Disability and the Human: Living Life to the Fullest, has been featured on BBC Ideas.
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United Voice: Self-Advocacy in Malaysia in Covid times
A row of vaccine bottles titled 'Coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine'

Vaccines for people with learning disabilities – the story behind the headline

This is the story behind the headline, by Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole.

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Autistic adults’ experiences: introducing our collaborative project

by Harriet Cameron and Luke Beardon