Please come to our next seminar, online or in person. All welcome. 10th December 12-1pm 'Understanding Parent Blame' with Prof Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello. @learningmet.bsky.social @charhar.bsky.social @itsadele.bsky.social @suecaton.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Understanding Parent Blame

The Learning Disability and Autism Research Group invites you to a hybrid seminar with Professor Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello

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Please share! The @digitallifeline.bsky.social project is looking for family carers, supporters, and professionals to take part in a research workshop about their experiences of supporting people with learning disabilities who received free digital devices during the COVID-19 pandemic. #AcademicSky

Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Are you a #FamilyCarer or professional of an adult with a #LearningDisability in England? Did they receive a free device during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join our online research workshop to share your experiences: #AcademicSky #AutRes #LearningDisabilities #DigitalInclusion

Are you a #FamilyCarer or professional of an adult with a #LearningDisability in England? Did they receive a free device during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join our online research workshop to share your experiences: #AcademicSky #AutRes #LearningDisabilities #DigitalInclusion

Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky

I'm excited to be chairing an online symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability on 8th Oct 12-2, as part of Manchester Metropolitan's Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group seminar series. Speakers and topics in the next post... Details and sign-up link at tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d 🧵

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met@learningmet.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky

Good luck to all our 2025 Staff Award nominees! Keep an eye on our feeds as we’ll be revealing the winners later today! 🤩🙌

Thank you so much to the #DownsSyndromeAssociation for sharing our call for research participants. Did you support someone with a learning disability with a free digital device they received during the pandemic? Contact us to join one of our online workshops and share your experience:

Digital Lifeline - Downs Syndrome Association

Researchers would like to hear from people with learning disabilities as part of an assessment of the government's Digital Lifeline Fund.

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Do you know any organisations who supported people with learning disabilities with digital devices during the pandemic? We are looking to find some more for our research. Any help much appreciated

Did someone you work with receive a free tablet during the #COVID-19 pandemic? We want to hear about their experiences through our @digitallifeline.bsky.social accessible online survey. They could win £100 for taking part! #SelfAdvocacy #LearningDisabilities #AutRes #AcademicSky #DigitalInclusion

Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · last yr.

Please share! Did your organisation support people with #LearningDisabilities to get set up with free tablets through the #DigitalLifelineFund in 2021? We want to hear from you! #LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #AutRes #Survey #SocialResearch #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLifeline

Professor Sara Ryan's new book 'Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder' is out today. There's a Plain English summary on our website: learningmet.mmu.ac.uk/resources/

Resources - Learning Disability and Autism Research Group

People with learning disabilities, erasure and social murder This resource explains more about Professor Sara Ryan’s book, ‘Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Soc...

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There’s still time for people with #LearningDisabilities to take part in our survey! Contact us for more information. #DigitalInclusion #SelfAdvocacy #Accessibility #Inclusion #AcademicSky

Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · last yr.

Please share! Did your organisation support people with #LearningDisabilities to get set up with free tablets through the #DigitalLifelineFund in 2021? We want to hear from you! #LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #AutRes #Survey #SocialResearch #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLifeline

On Friday, we had a great first meeting with a new oversight group - people with learning disabilities, autistic people & family carers. They will be giving feedback on our team's research. We've been calling them the Critical Friends group, but watch this space - they're working on a better name!

"The Government just don't even have a clue about what the pandemic has done to people like me, with an [intellectual] disability." Findings from research on ongoing impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic for people with learning disabilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @suecaton.bsky.social

Three Years on From “Stay at Home”: Perspectives of People With Intellectual Disabilities About the Ongoing Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Background People with intellectual disabilities were disproportionately negatively affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there has been limited research about the perceived longer-term impact....

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Francesca Ribenfors from @learningmet.bsky.social talking about #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth led by @suecaton.bsky.social #TCC2025

Please share! Did your organisation support people with #LearningDisabilities to get set up with free tablets through the #DigitalLifelineFund in 2021? We want to hear from you! #LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #AutRes #Survey #SocialResearch #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLifeline

The conversation cards can give some ideas for talking to doctors, nurses, and pharmacists about mental health medications. Read the conversation cards: medmentalhealth.net#page-9 #MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek

People with #LearningDisabilities are more likely to take mental health medications. The @medmentalhealth.bsky.social team have made lots of tools to help people with learning disabilities talk about their #MentalHealth medications. 🧰: medmentalhealth.net#information-... #LearningDisabilityWeek

I had an amazing visit to Warrington Speak Up this morning to see the premiere of their film 'Do you see me?' as part of Learning Disability Awareness Week. There was over 80 people there from Warrington organisations - amazing job! Hoping they’ll make the wonderful & uplifting film shareable soon

'[...] transition is more than just a process or an event; it’s an intricate body of parts that connect and affect each other' Dr @francescaribenfors.bsky.social considers the impacts of transition on young people, mothers, and professionals. 📖 sjdr.se/articles/10.... #LearningDisabilityWeek

A Multi-Informant Approach to Exploring Connections, Disruptions, and the Multidimensional Elements of Transition to Adulthood for People with Intellectual Disabilities | Scandinavian Journal of Disab...

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It's #LearningDisabilityWeek! We'll be sharing more about our research, and some of the resources we've created to support people with learning disabilities.

Our final seminar speaker in our Activism series is Shaun Picken. Shaun is an advocate & activist at My Life My Choice @mylifemychoice1.bsky.social . Shaun wasn’t into politics when he got involved but that soon changed! He joined Power Up - research & advocacy on issues including benefit cuts. 🧵

How can we make web design and content more accessible for everyone? #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #GAAD Read more: ukhomeoffice.github.io/accessibilit...

Today, Dr @suecaton.bsky.social will be speaking with the STOMP steering group at the South Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disabilities & Autism Provider Collaborative to share information and resources from the Medications and My Mental Health project. #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch

Join us on Wednesday! Shaun Picken’s Activism and Advocacy Journey at My Life My Choice (@mylifemychoice1.bsky.social ) When: Wednesday, 14th May 2025 @ 12-1pm Where: Online Find out more and get the link below: #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #AcademicSky

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met@learningmet.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to all who have joined us so far at this year's #seminarseries. We hope you can join us for our next seminar: Shaun Picken’s Activism and Advocacy Journey at My Life My Choice (@mylifemychoice1.bsky.social) When: Wednesday, 14th May 2025 @ 12-1pm Where: Online Book tickets below:

Absolutely brilliant talk by @dawnc05.bsky.social today at @learningmet.bsky.social. Not easy to listen to the awful experiences she shares, but so in awe of the Dawn’s commitment to challenge and protest.

Naomi L. Jacobs@naomijacobs.bsky.social · last yr.

Our speaker for today’s @learningmet.bsky.social seminar is our own Dr Dawn Cavanagh, speaking about her organisation’s work for people with learning disabilities & autistic people in locked wards and for independent living. Stolen Lives, Activism & the Role of Academia in Defending Human Rights. 🧵

It’s tomorrow! Join us:

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met@learningmet.bsky.social · last yr.

We are very excited to have our very own Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social discuss Stolen Lives at our next seminar this Wednesday (9th April @ 12-1pm) Join us in-person or online:

We are very excited to have our very own Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social discuss Stolen Lives at our next seminar this Wednesday (9th April @ 12-1pm) Join us in-person or online:

Stolen Lives, activism and the role of academia in defending human rights

The Learning Disability & Autism Research Group at Manchester Met welcome guest speaker Dr Dawn Cavanagh.

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met@learningmet.bsky.social · last yr.

Stolen Lives: Activism and the Role of Academia in Defending Human Rights April 9th 2025 @ 12pm - 1pm. Online & In-Person Dr Dawn Cavanagh discusses the Stolen Lives campaign. More info: stolenlives.blog

What a fantastic project to have been part of. Please check out the coproduced resources for ppl with LD and share widely @jbeebee.bsky.social @gwenmoulster.bsky.social @davidh7.bsky.social @daveweigel.bsky.social

@medmentalhealth.bsky.social · last yr.

We are very pleased to share our refreshed project website with our new information toolkit resources to support people with learning disabilities with mental health medications www.medmentalhealth.net @profkrc.bsky.social @dawnc05.bsky.social @learningmet.bsky.social @chrishutchrnld.bsky.social

We are very pleased to share our refreshed project website with our new information toolkit resources to support people with learning disabilities with mental health medications www.medmentalhealth.net @profkrc.bsky.social @dawnc05.bsky.social @learningmet.bsky.social @chrishutchrnld.bsky.social