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We are looking forward to reading your submissions!.

As an international project, we also welcome blogs that focus on various geographical locations. We encourage submissions from people at different career stages, and from academic, community, and policy backgrounds.

We approach disability inclusively and broadly, welcoming reflections on and about experiences of physical impairment, chronic illness, mental illness, body size, neurodivergence and learning disabilities, in relation to austerity.

If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know. If you have any questions, please get in contact using the email address above and one of our team will be able to help.

If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’.

Do you conduct work on disability + austerity? Do you have lived/research/policy experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series focusing on ways austerity shapes + changes disabled people’s lives + futures, and we want to hear from you!.

📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two ( we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'

Follow this link to read John's blog:

We are very pleased to share the final blog of series 2 by Prof. John H. McKendrick, on 'Futility and necessity: reflecting on an academic life researching poverty'. Thank you for your brilliant, reflective contribution to the series. To read John's blog, see below for the link.

Second is a new @methodsMcr podcast episode about our Oral Histories and Futures method, ft team members @soc_researcher and @e_ackerley which you can listen to here: Thanks to all those who have supported these outputs!.

We've got two new free resources to share from our project!.First is a guide on Researching Austerity published by @RGS_IBG You can download as a PDF here:. (1/2).

For more on collaging as method, take a look at @AmyCBarron 's how to guide here:

We've been playing with collaborative collaging to think, reflect and engage together. First at our team away day, then at our recent symposium, and also today as part of a creative workshop (see pic). It's a great way to create a collective output that's quick, fun and easy! 1/2

It's already Thursday! We're co-delivering this session today with @InspireOldham. Wondering about the little icons? We use these on each slide as a reminder of who is leading/speaking! .What would your icon be?!

RT @methodsMcr: Well done to the @austerityalters team and watch this space for the imminent release of our #methodsTalk episode featuring….

Thanks to everyone who has come to visit the exhibition today! We've enjoyed sharing stories of future lives and austerity and listening to people's responses. You can visit the whole exhibition here:

This week we're also holding a creative methods session with our mcr anti-poverty research community partners, co-delivered with the amazing @InspireOldham community researchers. For more on this work, including a co-created framework, see our website:

We've a busy week here @austerityalters. Tomorrow, we'll be at MCR Central Library from 10-5 with our exhibition on Future Lives and Austerity (also available on our website). Come to listen, chat, and be impressed at how we managed to fit it all in one small suitcase! 🎧💭💼.

Have a great first day, Poppy! We know you'll be doing amazing things in your new team 💃.