Got your tickets yet? Our online symposium on China and disability ist happening on 13th August, with speakers presenting their work on disability inclusion in education and employment in China. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

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Disability Matters Online Symposia 2026: China and Disability – Zoom, Thu 13 Aug 2026 - This a free online event taking place via Zoom on Thursday 13th August, 2026, from 10-11.15am UK/ 5-6.15pm China...

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Reminder that our India critical disability studies reading group will be meeting next Friday 7th August to discuss accessibility and creativity. Sign up here to receive the readings and Zoom link: mailchi.mp/9d4bbd72c932...

For our next India critical disability studies reading group meeting on 7th August, we will be focusing on accessibility and creativity. Sign up here to receive the readings and Zoom link: mailchi.mp/9d4bbd72c932...

Reminder: Our online symposium on China and disability is happening on 13th August 2026! Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

Book your ticket – Disability Matters Online Symposia 2026: China and Disability – Zoom

Disability Matters Online Symposia 2026: China and Disability – Zoom, Thu 13 Aug 2026 - This a free online event taking place via Zoom on Thursday 13th August, 2026, from 10-11.15am UK/ 5-6.15pm China...

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Lots has been happening at Disability Matters! Read our latest news on our website: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

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Latest news from the Disability Matters team

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Congratulations to Dr Ankita Mishra for winning the @powes.bsky.social and Feminism & Psychology Postgraduate Student Prize for her outstanding research on racially minoritised women survivors of domestic abuse in the COVID-19 Pandemic!

A reminder that our monthly India Critical Disability Studies reading group is happening this Friday 2-3.30pm BST/6.30-8pm IST! If you have already signed up, you should have received an email with the readings and Zoom link. Any problems please get in touch mailchi.mp/9d4bbd72c932...

ICYMI - We are running another online symposium in August on disability education and employment in China! Get tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

Book your ticket – Disability Matters Online Symposia 2026: China and Disability – Zoom

Disability Matters Online Symposia 2026: China and Disability – Zoom, Thu 13 Aug 2026 - This a free online event taking place via Zoom on Thursday 13th August, 2026, from 10-11.15am UK/ 5-6.15pm China...

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Join us for our online symposium on China and disability on 13th August 2026, with three brilliant speakers presenting their work on disability inclusion in education and employment in China: Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

Our partners at the Disability Innovation Institute at UNSW are conducting a series of online workshops to explores methods that are most useful when researching people with disability and their health priorities. Learn more and register here: events.humanitix.com/disability-m...

Disability Matters Workshop

Register on Humanitix - Disability Matters Workshop hosted by Disability Innovation Institute UNSW (DIIU) . Online. Wednesday 5th August 2026. Find event information.

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Join us for our online symposium on China and disability on 13th August 2026, with three brilliant speakers presenting their work on disability inclusion in education and employment in China: Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

Book your ticket – Disability Matters Online Symposia 2026: China and Disability – Zoom

Disability Matters Online Symposia 2026: China and Disability – Zoom, Thu 13 Aug 2026 - This a free online event taking place via Zoom on Thursday 13th August, 2026, from 10-11.15am UK/ 5-6.15pm China...

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Disability Matters India Critical Disability Studies reading group is a monthly peer-led online space for students, academics, researchers, advocates, and readers of all backgrounds and disciplines to learn and discuss disability in Indian contexts. Sign up here: forms.gle/Ff14bzc9Uran...

India Critical Disability Studies Reading Group

Disability Matters is a major six year pan-national programme of disability, health and science research, funded by a Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award, that aims to transform health research and env...

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In April, we had another successful knowledge exchange workshop with presentatioons from Dr Armineh Soorenian, Dr Hadar Elraz and Dr Claire Graf on Inclusive Research Cultures and Workplace Environments. Watch the recording and read the blog here: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

Transforming EDI through disability

Our ambitious plans to transform Equality, Diversity and Inclusion through a proper engagement with disability

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Dr Ankita Mishra and colleagues at iHuman, the University of Sheffield recently published a paper entitled ‘Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection’ in Data Science Journal. Read here: datascience.codata.org/articles/10....

Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection | Data Science Journal

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#DisabilityDialogues Quinn Clark writes about the lived experiences of disabled researchers and working with WAARC shef.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

Professor Tanya Titchkosky, Katherine Lili Chen, Wendy Pope, David Miller, Qi Lucy Gao published a new paper "The Social Production of Disability in Encounters with Ontario’s Right to Read Inquiry: Beyond the Models of Disability". Read here: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

The Social Production of Disability in Encounters with Ontario’s Right to Read Inquiry: Beyond the Models of Disability

This paper explores responses to the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Right to Read Inquiry (2022) so as to reveal the importance of examining the social production of disability. In 2024, Christine ...

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Professor Tanya Titchkosky and Dr. Elaine Cagulada have an entry in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies, with David Bolt as Editor-in-Chief (Hope Liverpool University). Read their entry "Disability and Phenomenology" here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Disability and Phenomenology

Summary. Phenomenological disability studies supports the exploration of lived experience of embodiment inclusive of perceptions of disability, which is cr

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The Disability Matters team presented our paper at the Leeds Disabilty Studies 2026 last week. Read the paper on our website: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

#DisabilityDialogues Dr Jodi Lamanna and Prof Jackie Leach Scully explore emotional labour for disabled people and share the latest UNSW online symposium on lived experiences of emotional labour shef.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

Our first knowledge exchange workshop on Cripping Knowledge Exchange with speakers Dr Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, Dr Daniel P Jones, and Khairani Barokka took place on 26th March. Watch the recording and read the blog by Turana Abdullayeva here: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

Transforming EDI through disability

Our ambitious plans to transform Equality, Diversity and Inclusion through a proper engagement with disability

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The BSL translation of #CrippingResearchCulture episode 7 with Lucy Killerby and Freya Douglas Oloyede is now live on the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture website! sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc... Cripping Research Culture is made possible with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social.

Cripping Research Culture Podcast

WAARC presents "Cripping Research Culture", a podcast that asks the question: "How can we make better working conditions for disabled staff in higher education?". Hosted and produced by Élaina Gauthie...

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So, I wrote something two years ago on my life's work and now you can read it. Like and subscribe. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The recording and transcript from the UNSW online symposium on emotional labour for disabled people is now available: www.unsw.edu.au/edi/diversit...

Disability Matters Symposium 2026 | Disability Matters - UNSW Sydney

Online event exploring emotional labour in disability advocacy, research and rights, plus the role of allyship in supporting people with disability.

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New episode alert! Join @drasoorenian.bsky.social and I as we interview inclusive recruitment specialists Lucy Killerby and Freya Douglas-Oloyede from Talent Spaces about how to address barriers to inclusive recruitment processes. open.spotify.com/episode/4KUi... sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

Cripping Research Culture Podcast

WAARC presents "Cripping Research Culture", a podcast that asks the question: "How can we make better working conditions for disabled staff in higher education?". Hosted and produced by Élaina Gauthie...

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Do you wonder what it takes to place disabled people in leadership positions? Well, Extant, the leading UK performance arts company centring blind and visually impaired people is doing.

Select tickets – Panel: Inclusive Recruitment and Hacking Bureaucracy – Zoom

Panel: Inclusive Recruitment and Hacking Bureaucracy – Zoom, Wed 25 Mar 2026 - This is the fifth and final instalment of the Dreaming up a Disability Inclusive Workplace webinar series hosted by the W...

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Prof Dan Goodley. Prof Rebecca Lawthom, Prof Meng Ee Wong and Kerri Heng Yi Ping ran a very successful Disability Matters Spring Institute 2026 in Singapore NTU last week in early March.

Dr. Tanya Titchkosky Reflects on Dr. Elaine Cagulada’s poetry reading, Neda: Words for My Darling. www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/sje/new...

Recounting of "NEDA: Words for My Darling" — Dr. Tanya Titchkosky Reflects on Dr. Elaine Cagulada’s Poetry Reading | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Dr. Tanya Titchkosky recounts Dr. Elaine Cagulada’s February 2026 poetry reading, NEDA: Words for My Darling.

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Our Research Associate Ankita Mishra has published an article "‘Zine-ing’ research otherwise: care, joy, and creative co-design with racially marginalised communities", co-authored with Mark Wong and Aunam Quyoum. Read the article here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Unfortunately due to unexpected circumstances, we are going to have to cancel this event on Monday, but we will be in touch again in the near future to inform you of a rescheduled date for the lecture. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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REMINDER: The iHuman Critical Disability Studies Anita Ghai Lecture given by Dr Miro Griffiths, Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds is happening on Monday 2nd March. Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

REMINDER: The iHuman Critical Disability Studies Anita Ghai Lecture given by Dr Miro Griffiths, Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds is happening on Monday 2nd March. Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Buy Ticket – iHuman Critical Disability Studies Anita Ghai Lecture given by Dr Miro Griffiths – Zoom

iHuman Critical Disability Studies Anita Ghai Lecture given by Dr Miro Griffiths – Zoom, Mon 2 Mar 2026 - The iHuman Critical Disability Studies Anita Ghai Lecture given by Dr Miro Griffiths, Centre f...

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It’s my honour to speak about disability and Philippine philosophies with other Pinoy kapatid tomorrow at this event held by the Center for Southeast Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. Where: Online When: 11 am PST/2 PM EST/7 PM GMT www.eventbrite.com/e/cripping-f...

Cripping "Filipino Resilience": Climate Change, Care and Disability

How exploitative political-economic management of climate change impacts and migrant care work wears down Filipinos' health and wellbeing

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