Call for PhD research participants! Please share and contact if you are interested, there is a video in the next tweet!

I'm currently recruiting participants for a qualitative study of dedicated online spaces for people with #LongCovid in the UK. You can read the full information and register interest at lccsinfo.co.uk. Feel free to contact me with any questions!

I saw it's #antibullyingweek & remembered my article on the disablist school violence disabled young people experience. Ktenidis, A. (2022) En/Counters with Disablist School Violence: Experiences of Young People with Dwarfism in the United Kingdom @BJSocE tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Really excited for this!

Been affected by a type of blood cancer? Identify as part of an ethnic minority? Please take part in my PhD research project to improve support and healthcare services. DM or email me to participate. Please share; tell a friend to tell a friend! #bloodcancer #healthinequality

Very exciting event coming up!

We are inviting family carers of adults with learning disabilities to take part in the Tired of Spinning Plates project. Please see our poster for more information and follow this link if you would like to sign up: mmu.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2n…

What a great day: Dr Ankita Mishra, Turana, Hsiao-fang CHANG, Tom Ryan, Charlie Grosset & I organised & hosted a hybrid symposium entitled 'Critical Exploration of Ethical Issues in Research with 'Vulnerable' Populations'. Reflexive panel discussions, a keynote (1/3)

The title of my chapter is "Ethical Complexities of Having Difficult Research Conversations: A Reflective Account and a Cautionary Tale on Speaking for 'Others'". In this chapter I engage with the work of two of my favourite feminist scholars: Linda Alcoff's "The Problem of (1)

What a joy to restart our PGR Disability Reading Group for this academic year! The amazing Tom Ryan started us off with a great article: Shuster, S.M. & Westbrook, L., 2024. Reducing the joy deficit in sociology: A study of transgender joy. Social Problems, 71(3),791-809(1/2)

Excited to share my Oxford Bibliography on 'Learning Disabilities and Siblings': oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docume…

New paper 🚨 “I Would Not Change [My] Sibling for the World, Maybe the World Can Change for My Sibling”: The Experiences of Adult Siblings of People With Developmental Disabilities. Authors – Elizabeth Moran-Morbey Chloe Blackwell Tom Ryan Nikita Hayden onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ca…

Lovely piece here from Tom Ryan: "This is not to say joy should take precedence over more difficult emotions, however the ups and downs of family life should be approached more openly and holistically, to ensure individualised deficit narratives do not remain unchallenged."

Hey X - I'm recruiting for my PhD research looking at how disability and intimacy is represented on Instagram. I am looking to speak to women with physical impairments to invite them to join the first stage of my research, a steering group. Please share far and wide!