Sad to not be at #CHI2023 this year, but really happy that Simona Manni's paper on methods for the participatory production of interactive films was (online) presented in the Building Bridges session this morning! Paper & talk available here: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Check out this article on our research and how social media platforms are letting down autistic users. To follow, we will share the paper presented today at ACM CHI Conference 2023 by Dr Belen Pena! qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202… #AutismAwarenessMonth #CHI2023 #Neurodiversity #inclusion

Online conference for anyone who is interested in our project results🙂. We will co-present findings with our participants and will have two workshops - discussing linguistic data and methods and the design ones. Pls register here eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-adu…

Just wanted to share our new blog from the Naturewrights Collective. Each month we will be sharing some of the fantastic work produced by our writers. My good friend Nicky has produced a beautiful poem about the Pipistrelle bat. naturewrights.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/nat…

Just so excited and happy to have been awarded a Economic and Social Research Council postdoctoral fellowship! I will work for one year at the new Institute of Mental Health Research at University of York doing dissemination of my PhD research! Still in disbelief 🫢

Seeing with memory? It is difficult to describe something that was part of your environment to someone who never saw it. How do you explain your memories if there is nothing left to place it? We are working to bridge the gap between memory & reality in places hit by quakes.

Our training session with UX designers went really well, so we are offering a new one for all of those who couldn't make it! We will explore methods and best practice to design more inclusive digital platforms for and with autistic users. Link to join below 👇

If you work in the third or public sector, and cannot re-design digital platforms, but would like to know how to adapt your existing website, social media, or online group to better support autistic users, we are also running short focus groups to explore this. Link below 👇

Free Creative Digital Skills short course: - Evaluate current digital confidence level & introduce current apps/online digital tools - IT Essentials: OS, video conferencing & devices - Creative Tools: image manipulation, presentation, film editing & game creation apps.

Great experience filming with Shaumya Kularajan in #Glasgow for the #interactive #documentary "Exploring Your Options", a video-based decision aid for young women making #fertility choices after a cancer diagnosis. Coming soon! jonathanhook Simona Manni University of York TFTI University of York

📢Calling UK-based #mentalhealth researchers 🧠🩺🕮! Please help Incubator for Mental Health Research GROW 2022 cohort inform how we're supported in UK academia by completing this survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0e… Please share & RT 🔁

Our first blog introduces the Youth Geographies of Inequality project and lets you know how you can get involved youthgeographies.com/blog/introduci… @UoYSBS_Research School for Business and Society 🏫 The Health Foundation

'Making a Participatory Film with Young People in Scarborough': A new storytelling post on our website shares experiences of how we began a participatory film-making project with young people in Scarborough youthgeographies.com/story/session-… Aniela Wenham Antonios Roumpakis Simona Manni

The 4th chapter of our film co-produced with young people 'York, my city' explores young people’s connections to place and it’s impact upon emotional support youtube.com/watch?v=VI9bKk… School for Business and Society 🏫 Aniela Wenham Antonios Roumpakis Simona Manni Professor Dawn Mannay Dr Linzi Ladlow Prof Ruth Patrick Dr Dena Arya

Come watch my #documentary Crossing Borders at the upcoming York Refugee Week 2024 on Monday 17th June 5-7pm at the York Medical Society! More details & link to book free tickets here york.ac.uk/social-science… Refugee Week 🧡 University of York York Refugee Week Department of Politics and International Relations Simona Manni

Next Monday I will be screening Unity&Community, a participatory film co-produced with women from the Sudanese community in Bradford alongside other films by talented colleagues and filmmakers Zulfiya Hamzaki and Emilie Flower. Please join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of-r…

So chuffed 🥳 our paper won the best paper award at ACM Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) ! jonathanhook Bob Phillips Zulfiya Hamzaki so very pleased and proud of this great project and team

Congratulations Simona Manni and team! Fabulous piece of work to add to ACM Interactive Media Experiences (IMX). Samuel Rhys Cox, Franziska and I enjoyed reading the paper very much and look forward to seeing more of the work in the future.

So excited for the screening of "Stepping Through Interactive", my PhD film on mental health and community! The film mixes participatory filmmaking with interactive documentary to bring voices to the forefront. In collab with Converge To sign up: shorturl.at/ywPS7

Thought provoking and lively debates on youth policy at today’s event An Agenda for Change Aniela Wenham Antonios Roumpakis Katherine A Smith . It was especially good to reconnect with insightful key findings from Youth Geographies of Inequality