#DisabilityDialogues
#DisabilityDialogues Armineh Soorenian writes about building a beautiful and forgiving community of care and exploring access in practice with other researchers. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Access as solidarity
by Armineh Soorenian
www.sheffield.ac.uk
July 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#DisabilityDialogues Esraa Rehan writes about designing for disability and why architecture needs to engage with critical disability studies. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Why Does Architecture Need to Engage with Critical Disability Studies?
by Esraa Rehan
sheffield.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#DisabilityDialogues Armineh Soorenian and Liz Dew write about negotiating access barriers during fieldwork and interdependent relationship of crip solidarity as anti-ableist practice. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Interdependency in Fieldwork
by Armineh Soorenian and Liz Dew
www.sheffield.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
#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: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#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...
Disability and the impact of emotional labour
By Jodi Lamanna and Jackie Leach Scully
shef.ac.uk
April 20, 2026 at 10:07 AM
#DisabilityDialogues Ahead of the online symposium on 11th Dec, we have invited disability scholars to contribute relfections on Indian disability studies and Anita Ghai's work. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Disability Dialogues Contributions
sheffield.ac.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
#DisabilityDialogues Ruby Goodley on access as colleague: "When access becomes a colleague in our spaces, it will help to encourage interdependence between human beings." www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Access as a colleague
by Ruby Goodley
www.sheffield.ac.uk
June 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#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 www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
On the importance of ethnographic approaches to researching anti-ableist research cultures
By Daniel P. Jones
www.sheffield.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#DisabilityDialogues Marcus Hansen calls for greater engagement with critical disability studies in accessible tourism scholarship to reflect our evolving understanding of disability sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Why does tourism need to engage with critical disability studies?
by Marcus Hansen
sheffield.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
#DisabilityDialogues Sophie Phillips and Kelly Scargill discuss the process and challenges of match-making researchers and Disabled People’s Organisations for WAARC. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Funding Collaborative Disability Projects with Disabled People's Organisations
by Sophie Phillips and Kelly Scargill
www.sheffield.ac.uk
August 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#DisabilityDialogues Cassie Kill writes about anti-ableism and the Welcome Hut as smaller hospitable spaces where we can experience the joy of missing out. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
The Complex Hospitality of Conferencing: Visiting the Welcome Hut
by Cassie Kill
www.sheffield.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
#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. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Disability Dialogues Across Borders: Power, Politics, and Partnership
by Ankita Mishra
www.sheffield.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#DisabilityDialogues Research Associate Jodi Lamanna and Co-Investigator Jackie Leach Scully write about researching disability in Australia and ask: Have people with disability been asked about their health priorities? sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Have people with disability been asked about their health priorities?
By Jodi Lamanna and Jackie Leach Scully
sheffield.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Some of the questions we hope to address at #DisabilityDialogues are:
➡️What does access mean in theory and in practice?
➡️How might we articulate and mediate access frictions with one another?
➡️Who do we imagine to be participating in our university communities; who is missing & who is present?
May 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Our special launch episode of Disability Dialogues is now live: tinyurl.com/disabilitydialogues-MAiD 🎉🎙️

Dr. Karen Soldatic opens a conversation on Medical Assistance in Dying and its impact on disabled communities, with Danielle Landry and Aisha Khan. 🧠⚖️

Stay tuned for our summer series! 🌞
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April 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
#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. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Digital disability dialogues: What does it mean to hold dialogue with each other in the digital “post”-COVID age?
by Christina Lee
www.sheffield.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#DisabilityDialogues Quinn Clark writes about the lived experiences of disabled researchers and working with WAARC shef.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Cultures (WAARC) and the expertise of lived experience disabled researchers
by Quinn Clark
shef.ac.uk
May 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
#DisabilityDialogues Our own Research Associate Christina Lee meditates on crip writing and what authorship means for chronically ill writers. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Crip Writing; Cripping Writing
by Christina Lee
www.sheffield.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
#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. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
Thoughts towards Tourettic Studies
By Daniel P. Jones
www.sheffield.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
More from #DisabilityDialogues: Bev Enion asks how do we share and collaborate in our findings with audiences beyond the university and calls on researchers to move away from inaccessible jargon and adapt to the needs of disabled people: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...
How do we share and collaborate in our findings with audiences beyond the university?
by Bev Enion
www.sheffield.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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August 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM