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Kirsty Liddiard

@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
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Sociologist and Senior Research Fellow researching breath, ventilation, disability and health. All views my own.

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Great start to the Leeds Disability Studies Conference #CDS26 with a packed audience for Kirsty Liddiard’s keynote ‘Reimagining the disability research process: Which way to the future?’ @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
An opening talk slide with a cartoon image of person at a desk using breathing equipment and the title ‘Take a deep breath: Reimagining the disability research process’
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Dr Vera Kubenz she/they @verakub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I'm excited to announce I have just passed my PhD viva with no corrections! So pleased that 4 1/2 years' work has paid off and thank you to my lovely examiners @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social and @leahfburch.bsky.social and Chair Jennifer Allsop for a great discussion.
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The Politics of Parking: Disabled People Experiences of Everyday Oppression through Encounters with Strangers in Accessible Parking Spaces
By Vera Kubenz Vera, a white woman with short brown hair standing in front of a door pointing at her t-shirt. The blue t-shirt has bold white text saying "I'm only on it for the parking" above a wheelchair stick figure throwing its arms up in delight
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
So dismayed by the lack of resolution - industrial action at UoS continues 🥹 #DigitalPicket @ucu.org.uk As a researcher, striking for me is about mitigating the endless restructuring of, & redundancies for, our excellent professional services colleagues, whose labour makes our research possible 💪🏽
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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place. But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it. Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
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Archives, manuscripts and material culture in health and wellbeing research | Reports | Wellcome
Archives, manuscripts and material culture collections hold profound potential for advancing knowledge about life, health and wellbeing. This report examines how these collections are currently used i...
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active #DigitalPicket too @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Staff at University of Sheffield begin strike action
Staff at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University are taking part in strikes.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 17/11/2025
We absolutely cannot accept this! We need to stand together and support in every way we can! Solidarity.
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
@sheffielducu.bsky.social Do the University’s financial reports support the need to make job cuts? #DigitalPicket #Sheffield t.co/pmTtz6x6kx
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https://ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/state-of-the-university-2024-25/financial-position-cuts/
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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We hope that this strong mandate encourages Management to make an offer that will avert the need to take strike action. Meanwhile, members will meet on Thursday to discuss how to use this mandate most effectively to protect jobs & fight back against worsening of our workloads & working conditions.
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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Getting ready for the #picket line! And I won't miss our rally with @sheffielducu.bsky.social & @ucuhallam.bsky.social (12.30 Barkers Pool). All that we ask is to get on with our work without being subjected to continuous harassment. @ucu.org.uk #ucustrike #Sheffield www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
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Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts
A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.
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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Tomorrow @sheffielducu.bsky.social begins four weeks of strike action over the continuous restructuring of programs and departments and threats of compulsory redundancies imposed by university management. We are holding a joint rally with our sister branch at SHU which is facing similar threats.
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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Tomorrow I’m back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social over the university’s refusal to rule out redundancies and stop the neverending cycle of unjustified restructures. East Asian studies remains under explicit threat of job cuts, but I’d be there even if we weren’t. We stand together.
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Warren Pearce @warrenpearce.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
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Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts
A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket
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Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
As part of our Special Issue, I wrote my first article engaging with Disability Studies & crip theory (eek) and discovered the brilliant work of @sunaura.bsky.social, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril & @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social, among others. I couldn’t recommend their work more! 🔗 tinyurl.com/2emhnz7w
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crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Important new blog post: SMA Awareness Month: Personal reflections on mouthpiece ventilation Check it out! 👍 @drsuzanneglover.bsky.social @pathfindersnma.bsky.social @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
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Blog post #14 SMA Awareness Month: Personal reflections on mouthpiece ventilation
By Dr Suzanne Glover, Lead Community Researcher and Research Associate
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If you have some time today, have a read of this beautiful blog post 👍
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crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Come and join our next public event 🙌🏽 My life with ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders event #Online #BSL www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-life-wi... @pathfindersnma.bsky.social @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social @respfutures.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk
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My Life with Ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders Event
An information evening exploring ventilation and respiration among people with muscle-weakening conditions.
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thrilled for this article to be out - open access, so take a look! @crippingbreath.bsky.social Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies
IntroductionOur contributions within this article emerge from our experiences of co-leading a new Wellcome Discovery Award funded project, Cripping Breath: T...
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
So proud to be affiliated with this great journal - new issue available here! 🙌🏽 www.scienceopen.com/collection/f...
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International Journal of Disability and Social Justice
<p>The <em>International Journal of Disability and Social Justice</em> is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Pluto Journals that contributes to the field of interdisciplinary Disability St...
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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
As the weather heats up again this weekend, BuDS urges everyone to take precautions and look after themselves and their loved ones. buds.org.uk/heatwave-tip...
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Heatwave Tips and Advice
Here is some advice and tips about coping during a heatwave. This advice has been written specifically for disabled people, but will work for everyone.
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"In co-produced research building in access to welfare advice is essential because that allows equal access to participation" Julia Lawrence, IPSA project www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/brows... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
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About ISPA - ISPA - Inclusive Design - Design - Topics - Resources - Housing LIN
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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Welcome to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference's takeover of the Polyphony site, from today until Tuesday next week. Here co-organiser @louisecreechan.bsky.social kicks us off by asking: 'What is critical neurodiversity studies'? thepolyphony.org/2025/06/23/c...
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Welcome to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference Takeover
What is ‘critical neurodiversity studies’? Louise Creechan introduces the conference aiming to answer this question, and its Polyphony takeover.
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crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A great blog post about Revisiting access and inclusion in research methods by our project friends in the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture (WAARC) project at the University of Sheffield. www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.ph...
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NCRM News | Revisiting access and inclusion in research methods
As a part of the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Cultures (WAARC) project at the University of Sheffield, we have been exploring ways of making research more inclusive and accessible, and considering
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Fantastic post within a fantastic project - take a look! 🥳
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
@fempsych.bsky.social
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Check it out! journals.sagepub.com/toc/FAP/curr...
Alt text: Promotional graphic for a special issue of Feminism & Psychology. Text reads: “Special Issue Alert. Disability as a Feminist Issue. Vol 35 Issue 2. Guest edited by Kirsty Liddiard + Rebecca Lawthom.” The Feminism & Psychology logo appears at the bottom. On the right, there is an image of a keyboard with three purple keys featuring accessibility icons: a person using a wheelchair, an ear with sound waves, and a person using a white cane. The keyboard is in warm orange and purple tones.
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I have a paper in this co-authored by the excellent Ned Coleman-Fountain, David Abbott & Alex Toft. It’s a piece of work I’m really proud of. It gets at some nuanced complexities of gender &sexuality in PA. Great to see it out with all its paper pals in this special issue. Excited to read the others
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
@fempsych.bsky.social
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Very proud to share this special issue of Feminism and Psychology, co-edited with Rebecca Lawthom ** Disability as a feminist issue ** It includes papers on trauma, affect, sexism, psycho-emotional disablism, care, contesting psy, sexuality & more! journals.sagepub.com/toc/FAP/curr...
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Feminism & Psychology - Volume 35, Number 2
Table of contents for Feminism & Psychology, 35, 2
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Dr Jess Mannion @drjessmannion.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I had such a lovely day at @sheffielduni.bsky.social with The Participatory Research Network. I really enjoyed facilitating the workshop on Creative Collaborative Data Analysis with such a fantastic group of PGR’s & ECR’s. #DataAnalysis @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
Me outside the wave at the uni of Sheffield A table with Lego and sandboxing material _ sign and power point saying the participatory research network A participants sandboxing scene A participants Lego metaphor
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Dr Sophie Phillips @sophphillips32.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This looks an amazing opportunity for somebody.
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crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We launched our Artist Collaborator search last week! Take a look here to learn more if you are an artist who lives on or with ventilation & would like to participate in a paid residency 🙌🏽 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
A ventilated person sat at a desk against a pink background; Image by Josh Slack, Inertia Creative; modified by Louise Atkinson
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Please take a look and share! 🙌🏽 @pathfindersnma.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk @mdukcharity.bsky.social @sophphillips32.bsky.social @profkrc.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @naomijacobs.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com
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International Journal of Disability and Social Justice @ijdsj.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Following last week's announcement of our two new Executive Editors Dr @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social & Prof Heng-hao Chang, we're thrilled to announce 5 wonderful new IJDSJ Editorial Board members: ✨Dr Kurt Borg ✨Dr Paul Darke ✨Dr @antoniosktenidis.bsky.social ✨Dr Amy Redhead ✨Prof Tania Titchkosky
Logo of journal. 'Warm welcome to new Editorial Board members!'. Photos of Kurt, Paul, Antonios, Amy and Tania. All smiling to camera.
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@crippingbreath.bsky.social is launching its Artist Collaborator Recruitment today! 🙌 Please take a look at the link and share widely! www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
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Artist Collaborator Recruitment
Cripping Breath is recruiting three disabled, chronically ill, and ventilated contemporary artists.
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Mad Crip Symposium @cripmadsymposium.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Tickets are here!!! 📣 📆 June 11th ⏰️ 9.30 - 4.30 💵 Free 3 amazing sessions, 2 unmissable keynote speakers, 1 amazing creative workshop, 2 BSL interpreters... #MadCrip www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

University of Southampton

UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH

SC.DTP.

South Coast Doctoral Training Partrership

Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies.

Free one-day hybrid symposium for PGR researchers

Centenary Building, University of Southampton,

SO17 1BJ 11th June 9.30-4.30

#MadCrip2025

What you'll hear

Session 1

What can Sociology learn from Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies?

Session 2

Mad studies and knowledge creation inside and outside of the academy

Session 3

What's missing, what's unsaid? Identifying issues and opportunities in Critical Disability Studies

What to expect

Refreshments - including vegetarian, vegan and GF options.

Informal atmosphere - move and be as you need to.

A quiet space.

BSL interpretation

Accessible parking and toilets.

Opportunities for creativity.

https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/intersections-of-sociology-with-crip-theory-critical-disability-studies-and-mad-studies/
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Hannah Thompson @blindspothannah.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Liverpool Hope hosts one of the most important and influential Disability Studies departments in the UK. Their emphasis on literary and cultural disability studies has produced research that has radically shaped thinking in the discipline and beyond and they have huge international reach.
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Leah Burch (she/her) @leahfburch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Our students REALLY showed up today. Protesting outside of our VC's newly refurbished office.
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
For the morning crowd - please do sign and share. Every single one of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope is at risk of redundancy. This isn't just about individuals; it's a threat to the field itself.
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Leah Burch (she/her) @leahfburch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Lovely to see so much support challenging the proposed mass redundancy at Liverpool Hope that disproportionately targets us within Social Sciences and more specifically, Disability Studies. Thank you to the wonderful Jill Pluquailec for writing this. Please sign & share @ucu.org.uk
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crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Couldn't make it to our Pint of Science event? No worries - catch it here! Blog post #9 Let’s talk breath and politics sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
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Blog post #9 Let’s talk breath and politics
By Julie Ellis and Jen Kettle
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International Journal of Disability and Social Justice @ijdsj.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🗞️NEWS ALERT!🗞️ Announcing two new Executive Editors at the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. Dr Kirsty Liddiard (@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social) of the @sheffielduni.bsky.social and Prof. Heng-hao Chang of National Taipei University, Taiwan. Warm welcome to both!
Photo of Prof Heng-hao Chang, who is a Taiwanese man in his middle-age, wearing a striped t-shirt and backpack - out for a walk. He is Prof of Sociology at NTPU and previously served as President of the Taiwan Society for DS. Photo of Kirsty, who is a young British, White woman. She is wearing her hair pulled back and has on a vest top. She is smiling. She is a feminist disability scholar at the University of Sheffield.
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Angharad Beckett FAcSS, FRSA @angharadbeckett.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thrilled that @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social is now an Executive Editor of the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. Kirsty has been with us on the IJDSJ from the very beginning, as a long-standing Board member. #comrade Looking forward to working with you Kirsty!
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The I'm Me Festival will be held at the Creative Centre at York St John University, Lord Mayor's Walk. Each day will feature theatre, dance and music performance, a film screening, workshops and an exhibition telling the story of the research. www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Festival programme | York St John University
The 2 day I'm Me festival features theatre, dance and music performances, a film screening, workshops and an exhibition telling the story of the research.
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Loved working on this - open access and free to read 🙌🏽
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My brilliant colleague Armineh Soorenian's new project - take a look! www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...
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New study seeks to transform workplace policies for women academics with mental health conditions
Swansea University has been awarded almost £60,000 by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to lead a pioneering project aimed at improving workplace conditions for women academics with mental health cond...
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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Covid infection levels in England have resumed their slow increase. In the week to 4 May, around 1 in every 250 people in England were infected, and the overall Covid risk remains Moderately High. buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
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Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 4 May 2025
The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 4 May 2025
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crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New blog post by our fantastic community researchers! Blog post #7 Experts by experience: Our Community Researcher Cooperative www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social @disabilitymatters.bsky.social
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Blog post #7 Experts by experience: Our Community Researcher Cooperative
By Haffizah Ali, Ruth Bridgens and Amanda Jones, with Suzanne Glover, Jen Kettle and Julie Ellis
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