"I [the researcher] am part of the research!" A packed house for today's #EdD keynote from the brilliant Dr Cheryl McLean (Rutgers Graduate School of Education) on Becoming a Reflexive Researcher. Great energy levels in the room - especially on a Sunday morning! Education@Sheffield @drjenrowsell Professor David Hyatt

If you're born in a poor country with a weak passport and work in academia, don't dream of attending conferences abroad. Obtaining a visa appointment is impossible, causing immense stress. The policy discriminates against developing countries. Accept your fate, cease your efforts

So painfully true. That's why hybrid conferences should be the way to go! If academia is really committed to decolonisation, it would remove the barrier to access (which was created by colonization in the first place)

Only 1.3% of Speech and Language Therapists in the UK are Black with over 90% being white. This impacts on ethnic minorities receiving treatment as well as proffesionals in practice. I wrote a piece for theleaduk.bsky.social | theleaduk.substack.com to find out more about this: thelead.uk/speech-therapy…

Back with this survey after a much-needed hiatus, please share widely! 🎉DISABLITY & RACE SURVEY🎉 👉Have a disability/long-term condition (incl. self-diagnoses)? 👉Identify as Black/Brown (e.g. African, Carribean, South Asian heritage)? 👉Live in UK? durham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/disability-rac…

So excited about this!!

#DidYouKnow about Camel Case or Pascal Case? It's an accessible hashtag convention for assistive tech and makes for easier visual reading. Always capitalise the first letter of each word i.e., #SusanAlbumParty versus the more ambiguous #susanalbumparty... If you know, you know.

Advice please! How do you write fantastic alt text? I'm looking for tips & resources that explain how to write accurate, atmospheric, energy-filled and entertaining alt text. #DisabilityTwitter, your help please!

Me and David Harewood will be doing a very Brummie kick off to the #PsychosisOfWhiteness tour at #BlackStudiesBCU 4 Sept 6.30. Free tickets, signed copies before release date and we will be selling copies of 'Maybe I Don't Belong Here' eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Women aged 30-39 were the largest group of teachers to leave the profession last year – a situation that has to be fixed, and fast, says @mtptproject founder Emma Sheppard tes.com/magazine/analy…

'Is it raining where you are? ' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt

Come and learn more about disability, Covid-19, teaching and technology at this fab event at The University of Sheffield: Reflections from a Cyborg: Telepresence teaching in Higher Education on 1/11/2023 1/3 Disabled in Higher Ed - #DisInHigherEd Education@Sheffield @PRNTUOS DisabilityMatters Literacies and Language Research Cluster iHuman

Were you or someone you know a member of Townhead Estate Residents Revolt, Hackney Tenants Federation, or the Black Roof Housing Co-op? I'm still looking to speak to anyone who was at this event in 1983! #asbestos

Stomach wrenching, docs staying with their patients, being shot at by snipers. Hospitals without water or electricity. They ask the world to help ‘there has been no response’. This is necropolitical in every sense in a health system with an existing huge shortage of docs #cease

And finally .. FOUR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE and ONE RESEARCH COORDINATOR positions. Come join the Critical Disability Studies community at iHuman, University of Sheffield (if you visited before please refresh the page) sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disabil…

My copy of a 1985 #Sparerib that covered the #minerstrike. There was a lot of support for the strikers from black & brown communities (the 2nd pic by me from a visit to a Doncaster pit)

Cold Junction, a joint exhibition by Luis Bustamante & @SebBustamante will open at 87 Gallery in Hull on June 14th. It's been a joy & a privilege to work on this over the last couple of years. Can't wait to share it with everyone! Full details: at87.squarespace.com/cold-junction

no amount of 'grit' or 'resilience' is going to dismantle social barriers and disrupt educational inequalities. these victim blaming narratives divert attention away from the state and ask marginalised children to change themselves. deficit thinking and grit goes hand in hand 🤝