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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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Livinglifetothefullest.org at Lancaster Disability Conference

iHumaners Kirsty Liddiard, Katherine Runswick-Cole and Dan Goodley attended the 9th Disability Conference at the University of Lancaster.

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Employing disabled people: how and why the workplace can be transformed

Disability researchers Sally Whitney, Lucy Watts (MBE) and Rachael Black have come together to create a set of resources to guide employers on employing disabled people.
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iHuman doctoral researchers establish networks in Toronto, Canada

iHuman doctoral researchers in the School of Education, Lindsay Miller and Michael Miller, recently returned from a three-day stay in Toronto, Canada.

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Interventions in Disabled Childhood Studies

How might we foreground the perspectives of disabled children and young people? To what extent can research work productively with disabled children as co-researchers?

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Co-creating a research toolkit

On Tuesday 7th May, School of Education and iHuman Research Fellow Kirsty Liddiard visited Greenacre School, Barnsley, to begin planning the Living Life to the Fullest Co-Production Toolkit.