*NEW & FREE* article on involving lay people and experts by experience in inspecting and regulating public services doi.org/10.1155/2024/1…: Health & Social Care in the Community, from the Feeling at Home team Feeling at Home Deborah Chinn Katy Brickley

Placing an “and” in between “migrants” + “refugees” incorrectly implies that refugees are not a subgroup of migrants + reinforces divisive narratives. That's why we have shifted our language to “migrants, including refugees”.

Find out more: buff.ly/3tVIkhd
#WordsMatter

We're once again asking everyone to stop misusing the #AltText feature for that click here meme.

If you understand why it's not cool to distract a working guide dog, you definitely understand why it's not cool to misuse accessibility features for a joke.
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It’s not 1987.

We've written image descriptions to help blind and partially sighted people decide which thirst trap is their favourite.

See the alt text for more 👀 and tell us - which one do you choose?

A lively discussion today in our #photovoice workshop around how the city makes us feel, good and bad.

Also a great opportunity for us to reflect on the benefits and challenges of using this visual research method on Feeling at Home

#ESRCFestival #QualitativeResearch NIHR

Partners in Care and Health are hosting a free webinar on Wednesday 15th November to talk about how people can co-produce service change and work to make it better.

Find out more about the webinar here: tinyurl.com/LGAwebinar

West Midlands ADASS Local Government Association (LGA) #SocialCare #LearningDisability

Do you live, work or study in London?

Join us for a free workshop on using photography to explore how we feel about the urban environment...

#Southwark #Southbank #InclusiveArts #Waterloo

Join us for our free and fun workshop on Weds 15 Nov in Waterloo, London.

We will use #photovoice to explore our lives in the city...

More info here: feelingathome.org.uk/events/citypho…

Southwark College @craetiveartssc Community Southwark

Hello Cardiff friends - come along to our exhibition on ‘home’ this week, and free #photovoice webinar tonight!

#InclusiveResearch

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We need to be careful when using words like *vulnerable*. Of course, too many are rendered vulnerable because of barriers to participation & not having their gifts recognised. Addressing “vulnerability” is largely about enabling citizenship & equity; not therapy or benevolence.

A much-needed, thought-provoking blog about language used in social care…

Come to our free #photovoice webinar on Weds 18 Oct, 6-7.30pm with @deborahchinn and ffotogallery !

Try photovoice activities, and hear about the benefits and challenges of this #ParticipatoryPhotography method.

feelingathome.org.uk/events/photovo…

NIHR School for Social Care Research Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King's 💙 King's College London

“Raising the voice of people with a learning disability'

Mary Woodhall has written a blog about some work she has been doing to help people with a learning disability use their right to vote...

tinyurl.com/yvf3a56r

14 Organisations, including Learning Disability England, have joined to sign a letter calling on political leaders to take action to address the ongoing neglect & #HumanRights abuses of people with a #learningdisability & autistic people: tinyurl.com/3z6e2vdz

No research about us, without us! Removing research barriers for people with learning disabilities

Learning Disability England is a partner in a new project working towards people with a learning disability being equal partners in research leadership...

tinyurl.com/5ysnt4sp

Fantastic to see this being addressed.

This looks brilliant! Just signed up!

#A11y #EasyLanguage #EasyRead

Brilliant to catch up with folk at #ALAPP23 conference in #glasgow . A very inspiring conference!

I’ve been to beautiful Shrewsbury today to hang the Feeling at Home exhibition at the Hive - a chance to reflect again on the images and captions our participants produced. They worked so hard putting the exhibition together, thanks Hive Shrewsbury for hosting!