Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met
@learningmet.bsky.social
We do research with people with learning disabilities, autistic people, and their families. We are committed to social justice and more equal research practice. Join our mailing list for event news: https://forms.office.com/e/SihkWJ4eYE
As part of the Social Murder Festival, we're hearing from Lucy Easthope today, on Lessons for Challenging Social Murder from a Lifetime Working in Disaster www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lessons-fo...
Lessons for challenging social murder from a lifetime working in disaster
Join Lucy Easthope, Visiting Professor of Social Justice and Bereavement, for a discussion on challenging social murder.
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Privileged to hear from so many activists & self-advocates at the Social Murder Festival at @learningmet.bsky.social today - calling for an end to preventable deaths of people with learning disabilities. Part of a week-long event including lobbying at the House of Lords. @sararyan57.bsky.social
Our next research seminar is next Weds 10th June at 12 (online). We'll be hearing from Amanda Hill about research with family members into their experiences of the Court of Protection - an under-researched area - which is rooted in Amanda's own experiences. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-exp...
Family Experience of the Court of Protection
Please join the Learning Disability and Autism Research Group for their next seminar with Amanda Hill.
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Join us for our monthly seminar on Weds (13th May) at 12pm with Dave Wilson. Dave's research explores the experiences of families of people with learning disabilities who are placed in 'out of area' residential homes, away from their families and communities. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/out-of-are...
Out of area residential homes for people with learning disabilities
The Learning Disabilities & Autism Research Group invites you to Out of area residential homes for people with learning disabilities.
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Today's @learningmet.bsky.social seminar is on autistic people and cancer & cancer services, with @georgiarivers.bsky.social , @kmunday.bsky.social , Char Goodwin & Rosie Tansley. Dr Georgia Rivers first, on PhD research with autistic transmasculine people on experiences of cervical screening.🧵
Our research seminar today is on autistic people’s experiences of cancer and cancer services, with @georgiarivers.bsky.social , @kmunday.bsky.social cial, Char Goodwin and Rosie Tansley. See @naomijacobs.bsky.social 's thread here for more! bsky.app/profile/naom...
Naomi L. Jacobs@naomijacobs.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday's @learningmet.bsky.social seminar is on autistic people and cancer & cancer services, with @georgiarivers.bsky.social , @kmunday.bsky.social , Char Goodwin & Rosie Tansley. Dr Georgia Rivers first, on PhD research with autistic transmasculine people on experiences of cervical screening.🧵
We're researching experiences of complaints about social care for family carers of people with learning disabilities. Please get in touch with Francesca below if you're interested in taking part. #Complaints #LearningDisability
Francesca Ribenfors@francescaribenfors.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're looking for people to take part in research exploring experiences of adult social care complaints. Please get in touch if you are interested in sharing your experiences or would like to know more about the research. f.ribenfors@mmu.ac.uk complaingaboutcomplaints.my.canva.site/complaints/
Brilliant seminar with #UncurbedCollective today - a #disability arts company based here in Manchester. They wove together performance and discussion. The collective reflected on how they are working to co-create theatre and share power (in organising and performance). uncurbed.co.uk?gad_source=1...
Home | Uncurbed Collective
Disabled-led performance, arts and theatre company. Unapologetic. Uncompromising. Uncurbed.
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Please join us online on 11th March for our next (extended) research group seminar, on autistic people’s experiences of cancer and cancer services. Speakers: @kmunday.bsky.social, @georgiarivers.bsky.social, Char Goodwin and Rosie Tansley. Sign up at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-p... #AutRes
Autistic People's Experiences of Cancer and Cancer Services
The Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group at Manchester Met invites you to a online seminar about autism and cancer
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The latest in Chris Hatton's blog series on 2024/5 social care stats & adults with learning disabilities - on finances. "Spending less isn't any kind of solution - working with people with learning disabilities and those close to them to spend it better is." chrishatton.blogspot.com/2025/12/soci...
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Today's seminar is from Professor Luke Clements & Dr Ana Laura Aiello @lawatleeds.bsky.social - findings from their book 'Understanding Parent Blame' - research with families on traumatising social care experiences, in policy & legal context, and campaigns for change essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/art...
School of Law academics tackle Parent Blame in new edited collection
Professor Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello have published a new edited book titled 'Understanding Parent Blame: Institutional Failure and Complex Trauma' with Policy Press.
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Please share: Join us online or in-person on 10th December 2025 (12pm-1pm) for our next seminar: Understanding Parent Blame with guest speakers Professor Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello. All welcome! More info and booking at the link below: #LearningDisabilityResearch #AcademicSky #AutRes
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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🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following: - Full report - Easy Read report - Report summary with conclusions and recommendations - Shorthand
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
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New article from team member Naomi Jacobs, sharing findings from research with disabled members of churches on the right to participate in religious institutions, in the light of the Equality Act www.scienceopen.com/document?vid...
“I Just Didn’t Fit into the Way That They Did Church”: Barriers to Access and Participation for Disabled People in UK Churches
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We had a great Research Group seminar today from Dr Nathan Keates, on Autistic Relations: Like-mindedness, Identities and Community. Through comedy improvisation, Nathan's research explores autistic people's ways of being social - as distinctive rather than a problem. #AutRes #AcademicSky 1/3
Please share! Reminder to please join us tomorrow (online or in-person @manmetuni.bsky.social) for the next free event in our research group seminar series. Please click the link below for information and booking: #AutRes #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AutismResearch #AcademicSky
Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met@learningmet.bsky.social · 9mo agoPlease join us online and in-person this Wednesday (12th November) for the next event in our seminar series with Dr Nathan Keates - ' #Autistic Relations: Link-mindedness, Identities, and Community'. The event is free to attend and all are welcome! Please follow the link for more info and booking:
Please join us online and in-person this Wednesday (12th November) for the next event in our seminar series with Dr Nathan Keates - ' #Autistic Relations: Link-mindedness, Identities, and Community'. The event is free to attend and all are welcome! Please follow the link for more info and booking:
Autistic Relations: Like-mindedness, Identities, and Community
The Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group invites you to a hybrid seminar by Dr Nathan Keates
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Updates on #Employment #Statistics for adults with #LearningDisabilities 2025/25 from Professor Chris Hatton's blog: chrishatton.blogspot.com/2025/10/empl... #AutRes #AcademicSky #Statistics #LearningDisabilityResearch
Employment and adults with learning disabilities in England - 2024/25 update
Towards the end of October each year, the government publishes statistics about adult social care for England for the previous financial yea...
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Professionals with experience of providing psychological therapy to adults with learning disabilities needed for research to develop a therapeutic working alliance measure for this population. Click here: forms.gle/L8TYrjxBBGhC... Please share @learningmet.bsky.social #LearningDisabilityResearch
Developing a working alliance measure for adults with intellectual disabilities: Focus group
Primary researcher: Emma Gleave, Trainee Clinical Psychologist, University of Sheffield Research supervisors: Dr Gregg Rawlings, Prof Nigel Beail, and Dr Nik Vlissides
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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 agoAre 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
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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Prof Chris Hatton has blogged about the recently-released LeDeR Annual Report 2023, including some worrying inconsistencies and trends there. "It looks like less attention and less scrutiny is being paid of the deaths of people with learning disabilities." chrishatton.blogspot.com/2025/09/lede...
LeDeR Report 2025 - a first look
This is a blog post based on my first reaction to the much delayed latest version of the LeDeR report. As you’ll see, I didn’t get as far t...
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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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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
"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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'Our investigation of the experiences of public witnesses shows that, from their standpoint, FtP hearings are experienced as inherently unfair.' Follow the link to read more about findings emerging from the Witness to Harm project: @francescaribenfors.bsky.social @sarasiobhan.bsky.social
Iatrogenic injustice: an institutional ethnography of Fitness to Practise hearings
The public has an important role to play in the regulation of health and social care, including raising concerns about harms caused by health and soci…
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In this short video, Professor Sara Ryan, research group lead, and Professor Chris Hatton share more about the Learning Disability and Autism research group at @scswmcrmet.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social. #AcademicSky #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #ResearchGroup #ManMet
BAP - 6704 Chancellor's Dinner Research Film V10
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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!
For more information about the @medmentalhealth.bsky.social project, along with useful resources for talking about mental health medications, you can visit the project website: medmentalhealth.net #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch
Medications and My Mental Health
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Katherine Runswick-Cole@profkrc.bsky.social · last yr.Francesca Ribenfors from @learningmet.bsky.social talking about #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth led by @suecaton.bsky.social #TCC2025
