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A poster which reads "It's a beautiful thing, the distruction of words." George Orwell. It also lists a number of words and phrases discouraged by US Federal Agencies 2025

WAARC Blog: A creative and anti-ableist higher education? Reflections from the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference

Liz Dew; Cassie Kill; Armineh Soorenian; Lauren White; Rebecca Lawthom
A wall of cuttings, drawings and scrawlings capturing some of the ambitions iHuman researchers have for Critical Disability Studies including slogans such as 'Love', 'Crip Killjoy', 'Work with bodies, desires and feelings', 'Difference, disagreement and conflict', 'remaking a different university differently'

A Manifesto for Critical Disability Studies

iHuman researchers had the opportunty to reimagine disability research through a creative workshop, developing a Manifesto for Critical Disability Studies
artistic visualisation from the joy in social research event
Artwork by Liam Callebout.

Joy in Social Research

This blog reflects on the 鈥楯oy in Social Research鈥 event, which created space for postgraduate and early career researchers to collaborate and critically engage in the concept of joy. It was funded by the Participatory Research Network and iHuman.
A wooden art piece of the word Helsinki framed by a speech bubble.
An art piece found in the foyer of the Helsinki City Hall

Disability in Education & Work: A Blog from Helsinki, Finland

By Rhea Halsey
Person drawing in a classroom

Research in the classroom

On Friday 7 February, Dr Kirsty Liddiard went to Greenacre School in Barnsley to co-run a workshop for teachers and school leaders on the benefits of research as pedagogy for disabled children and young people in SEN/D schools.
Person drawing in a classroom

Exploring disability and technology in Singapore

Dan Goodley represented the iHuman team in meetings with academics, government representatives, NGOs and tech experts in Singapore.

Marina Bay, Singapore

Launching the Living Life to the fullest co-production toolkit in South East Asia: Singapore

Dan Goodley hosted a lecture and workshop on the Co-production Toolkit; a key impact output of ESRC Living Life to the Fullest research project.
Apartment buildings across a river

Towards a global housing studies: beyond dichotomy, normativity and common abstraction

A global orientation within housing studies can sometimes be hampered by the tendency within academic research toward an empirical and theoretical separation between the 鈥淕lobal South鈥 and 鈥淕lobal North鈥.

Street art drawings

Multilingual Streets artwork installed at Burnage Academy

A new vinyl artwork has been installed at Burnage Academy, Manchester, which shows a collaborative response by Y9 pupils to the languages and cultures of Rusholme.