NEW EVENT!!📢We are super excited to launch our first Disability Matters online town hall circus 2025! Please join us on 19th Sep for conversations on how disability can drive innovative change and expand equity, diversity and inclusion in health research:

#DisabilityDialogues Our own wonderful Ankita Mishra reflects on her ongoing research and practice on community collaboration across transnational contexts and building meaningful partnerships as sites of resistance.

The online town hall circus will feature short provocations from the Sheffield Disability Matters team and a panel discussion with Prof Kate Sang and Dr Katherine Deane, as well as opportunities to network with other researchers and organisations:

#DisabilityDialogues Another piece from Christina Lee exploring what it means to hold dialogue with each other in the digital “post”-COVID age and points to the need to experiment with collaborative, creative ways of being together.

Thank you again to our brilliant speakers and to everyone who attended the symposium! . The recording and written papers are now available on our website: We will be running more events soon so watch this space!.

#DisabilityDialogues Our own Research Associate Christina Lee meditates on crip writing and what authorship means for chronically ill writers.

RT @DisRightsUK: Amongst all the noise, we are sending our solidarity to all Disabled people watching on as we see our lives, our impairmen….

We only have three tickets left for our online event tomorrow. Join us in exploring inclusive research cultures in higher education, specifically through the lens of disability. Grab your ticket now:

RT @DisRightsUK: "The government [. ] underestimated the power of the Disabled people’s movement. I believe that the MPs who listened to….

#DisabilityDialogues Cassie Kill writes about anti-ableism and the Welcome Hut as smaller hospitable spaces where we can experience the joy of missing out.

#DisabilityDialogues Another brilliant piece from Daniel Jones who reflects on conflicts within ethnographic research on research cultures and asks how can we innovate and conduct research in inclusive ways

RT @KirstyLiddiard1: Please share! @DisMatters @IntJDSJ @davidabbottbris @crippingbreath @edi_caucus @SpinPlatesCare @jess_mannion @JulieCa….

RT @crippingbreath: A great blog post about Revisiting access and inclusion in research methods by our project friends in @WAARC_Sheffield….

Did you know we have BSL interpretation supporting our event in July? Join us for a conversation on disability and inclusive research cultures - only two weeks away! .Get your ticket: @crippingbreath @iHumanSheff @EducationSheff @SheffSocScience

#DisabilityDialogues: Daniel Jones imagines a future of Tourettic Studies that shifts away from studying ‘syndrome’, and towards Tourettic culture, people, places, experiences, joys, woes, politics.

RT @crippingbreath: We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week! . Take a look via the link below to learn more if you are an ar….

#DisabilityDialogues Ruby Goodley on access as colleague: "When access becomes a colleague in our spaces, it will help to encourage interdependence between human beings."

📣News: It's been a busy month at Disability Matters!. ➡️Our Programme Manager Rhea Halsey at the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) conference in Helsinki.➡️Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving: International Conversations in Toronto.

RT @DisRightsUK: 📖We're so excited to launch our new co-production guide, with explainers on. 👉What co-production is.👉How it can benefit….

ICYMI - we have an upcoming online symposium in July! Make sure you register on the event page: