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...
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...
#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 BSL translation of #CrippingResearchCulture episode 7 with Lucy Killerby and Freya Douglas Oloyede is now live on the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture website!
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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 ...
Summary. Phenomenological disability studies supports the exploration of lived experience of embodiment inclusive of perceptions of disability, which is cr
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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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Paper presented at the Leeds Disability Studies Conference, 15th April 2026.
#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...
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...
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...
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....
By Jodi Lamanna and Jackie Leach Scully
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Our ambitious plans to transform Equality, Diversity and Inclusion through a proper engagement with disability
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...
