#DisabilityDialogues Marcus Hansen calls for greater engagement with critical disability studies in accessible tourism scholarship to reflect our evolving understanding of disability

Fab write up from @PathfindersNMA about our joint event, My Life with Ventilation last month 🙌🏽 @HMViPGroup @DisMatters @Missysmatters @BTSrespiratory @KirstyLiddiard1 @suzanneglover0 @JulieCarmel1 @jenniferkettle1 @gracearjoseph @loubietheartist https://t.co/A95Dz9TsQb

This #DisabilityHistoryMonth, NADSN is gifting our community a celebration of #DisabledJoy 💜 Join us Fri 28 Nov for Laughter, Joy & Pride - humour & creativity by and for Disabled people 🎤✨ 🎟️ Book: https://t.co/Hr0nlMOkY1 #NADSN #DHM #DisabledPride

We work closely with the National Association of Disabled Staff Networks @nadsn_uk who sits on the International Research Advisory Board. Read about their work and the recently published White Paper on inclusive environments in STEMM:

Recording of the online town hall now available on our website:

Our PI Dan Goodley and Prof Rebecca Lawthorn talk about the difficulties of changing culture in universities, and how others can get involved in building inclusive environments for disabled people @WhiteRoseUC :

#DisabilityDialogues Colleagues in Sheffield and Toronto remember the late Len Barton and share some thoughts on his immense influence on disability studies and inclusive education:

Our Singapore-based Research Assistant Kerri Heng presented a paper with Prof Rachel Chen last week at the NTU Medical Humanities Satellite Conference as part of the Singapore Health and Biomedical Conference https://t.co/wF3wXms0Vf

Disability Matters RA Ankita Mishra published a blog post for the Centre for Equity and Inclusion exploring the everyday challenges faced by chronically ill and disabled women of colour in academia through the composite narratives of Nyra and Maya.

New blog post by @JamieRHale, one of our Artist-in-Residence to the project: **** Cripping time at a multitude of paces **** https://t.co/T7RBFoLBYH @DisMatters @KirstyLiddiard1 @CRIPticArts

#WaysofPerceiving BLOG: Katherine Chen reflects on her journey of stumbling into Disability Studies and finding community at Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving.

Recording of the October online symposium from Spain now available on our website:

#WaysofPerceiving BLOG: Hilary Pearson suggests that the conference as an act of gathering together in the neighbourhood with our peers is an act of resistance in and of itself.

We want to know about your experience of using the Access to Work scheme. If you have had help in the last 2 years, we want to hear from you. DPCG have created an easy read version of their survey. We want to see if ATW works for Disabled people. https://t.co/3tL4pN1HdD

#DisabilityDialogues Esraa Rehan writes about designing for disability and why architecture needs to engage with critical disability studies.

A huge THANK YOU to our three brilliant speakers Andrea Garcia-Santesmases, Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero, and Javier Monforte today for our online symposium from Spain. If you missed the session, you can read the papers on our website.

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Our October online symposium from Spain is happening TOMORROW! Get your tickets and read the papers on our website:

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Please join us for another online symposium on October 2nd 12-1pm BST with Andrea Garcia-Santesmases, Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero, Javier Monforte from Spain!