My first empirical paper, “Beyond normativity: negotiating chronicity as young people with an ostomy”, has been published in Social & Cultural Geography 🎉 You can access it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond normativity: negotiating chronicity as young people with an ostomy

This paper challenges normative understandings of youth, disability, and the lifecourse through the conceptual lens of chronicity – the negotiations with, and embracement of, the enduring state of ...

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A wonderful launch of @thelrm.bsky.social’s book, Feminist Art of Walking 🌙💜 An evening of reflection, solidarity & everyday activism - a reminder that walking is art, resistance, and care all at the same time. Feeling inspired to slow down & ‘amble’ 🌃🚶🏻‍♀️ 📖 pictured below #Crip #Walking #Geography

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Dr Poppy Budworth@poppybudworth.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟 Excited to share two new digital toolkits for people with an ileostomy or colostomy! 🌟 Created with GetYourBellyOut and digital artist Lucy Harman, based on my PhD research about young people’s experiences of living with an ostomy.

More stitched squares shared by remote participants in our #StitchAssemblyRGS25 session at #RGS-IBG conference last month. Big thank you to all who took part & shared their reflections! @poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social

Huge thanks to the #StitchAssemblyRGS25, this was so inspiring! Some short keywords this piece embodies: #unfinished #together #outofthebox #(un)directionality #heartening #multiplepaths I look forward to seeing the joined quilt!❤️Hoping to reflect a bit of this spirit in the MobileWorlds Festival

My output inspired by what I believe the vision & values of my work in creating a #GoodFoodNation to 'build a long table not a higher wall' A table with people connecting and eating around it together. A space of equity.

@rgsibg.bsky.social #RGSStitchAssembly Loving the creativity theme of this years conference. Encouraging us all to pause, reflect & challenge ourselves.

🌟 Excited to share two new digital toolkits for people with an ileostomy or colostomy! 🌟 Created with GetYourBellyOut and digital artist Lucy Harman, based on my PhD research about young people’s experiences of living with an ostomy.

Not a natural stitcher but loved participating in #StitchAssemblyRGS25 this morning!

Just getting started on my stitched contribution to RGS 2025. Is this another way of connecting #arts and #research, #PhysicalMobility and #DigitalMibility? Thank you for this beautiful initiative! #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡 #mobileworlds #thirdcultures

#StitchAssemblyRGS25 ❤️

Creative stitching workshop at the RGS. Geography meets craft in a fabulous moment of sharing time & space. #StitchAssemblyRGS25

✨ The Stitch Assembly is live at #RGSIBG2025 in Birmingham! Whether you’re here in person or joining from afar, we want you to feel part of our creative community. Find your moment to stitch & share! #StitchAssemblyRGS25 💫 🧵 A few snapshots so far 👇

📢 The in-person Stitch Assembly is happening today at 11:10am (BST). I can’t wait to see some of you there 🎉 #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡

Dr Poppy Budworth@poppybudworth.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ Looking forward to the #RGSIBG2025! Join us for the Stitch Assembly 🧵 ⏰ Thursday, 11:10 - 12:50 (BST) 📍 Muirhead Building, Room 109 A creative space to stitch, reflect & connect - in Birmingham and beyond! 💫 #Creativity #StitchAssemblyRGS25

Prepping materials 🧵🏵️🧶for Stitch Assembly at #RGS-IBG Follow #StitchAssemblyRGS25 for updates, reflections & stitched quilt squares from remote participants & our in-person session. If you’re in Birmingham we’d love to see you there! @poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social

✨ Looking forward to the #RGSIBG2025! Join us for the Stitch Assembly 🧵 ⏰ Thursday, 11:10 - 12:50 (BST) 📍 Muirhead Building, Room 109 A creative space to stitch, reflect & connect - in Birmingham and beyond! 💫 #Creativity #StitchAssemblyRGS25

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Are you heading to #RGS-IBG AC2025 as an online-only delegate? We’re organising a hands-on creative workshop for you! Sign up to Stitch Assembly & we’ll post you a pack 👇😊🧵 docs.google.com/forms/d/1ytd... @poppybudworth.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

It is great that some of the belonging team are attending the @openuniversity.bsky.social conference together on the social history of people with learning disabilities, funded by @nihrsphr.bsky.social with @nihrsscr.bsky.social. We are looking forward to Day 2 today! ☀️

📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'

Research trip to Hove 🌊

Really excited to be collaborating with @dadafest.bsky.social Join this online round table with 5 brilliant artists on March 17th: using creative workshops to imagine better futures of care with & for people with energy limiting conditions @livuninews.bsky.social www.dadafest.co.uk/event/ignite...

“We’re losing decades of our life to this illness.” An important read by @kathryn42.bsky.social on Long Covid: 5 Years On. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten

Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic neve...

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Does Geography have a (working) class problem? If you don't already know the answer, this should help; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.

A taste for deprivation? Fish, chips and leaving the European Union

This paper explores the relationship between food culture and political behaviour through the lens of the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the E…

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I really enjoyed the discussion we had at this ‘cuppa conundrums’ event hosted by the ‘re-imagining research practices’ team @wellcometrust.bsky.social

It's important everyone over 14 on their doctor's learning disability register has an annual health check. They can help you stay well and find any problems early. If you haven't been offered one you can ask your doctors practice if you can have one.

We had our 1st Advisory Group meeting yesterday. It was great to meet everyone, talk about the Belonging Project, and listen to everyone's brilliant suggestions! Here is a picture from our meeting @poppybudworth.bsky.social @elaineljames.bsky.social @nihrsphr.bsky.social

This is disgusting. Apart form the gross immorality of it, there is the practicality - get big corporations and multimillionaires to pay their taxes - that would create far more revenue than persecuting people on disability benefits.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2y ago

UK govt targets old, sick, disabled. Long-term sick need to find jobs. Face benefit cuts of £5k a year. This after two child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut. 6.3m await hospital appointment, 2.8m chronically ill Govt won't tax wealth; increase capital gains, corporate tax archive.ph/zDPGT

Some of our team met in York today. We talked about our plans for the belonging focus groups. It was great to meet each other in person and the sun came out! 🌞 @poppybudworth.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

We really enjoyed our in-person training with Paradigm this time last month. We all met in London and practiced our focus group co-facilitation. We are looking forward to starting the research very soon!