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Talking Mats @talkingmats.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The Research Spotlight for August shines on work by @samanthaflynn.bsky.social , @nikitahayden.bsky.social , @nikmanktelow.bsky.social and team. Using digital Talking Mats they gathered the views of children using an online reading intervention. Use the QR code to read more

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Sibling Studies Network @siblingstudies.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Last chance to sign up to this event tomorrow – looking forward to seeing everyone there!

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Sibling Studies Network @siblingstudies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Please do join our online event next on 25th June: 'Siblings, Disability and Care: Anthropological and Co-Created Perspectives'. With @pblock8.bsky.social Helen Ries Dima Kassem @nikitahayden.bsky.social @tomjryan99.bsky.social Programme here: tinyurl.com/mr2ejrt7 Sign up here: tinyurl.com/mra86v38

Flyer for an event as follows:
Siblings, Disability and Care: Anthropological and Co-Created Perspectives.
Co-Creation During Times of Transition.
This online event builds an understanding of the impact of major life transitions on sibling relationships – particularly the emotional, social and caregiving dynamics involved. We will look at mutual care relationships as a form of access intimacy, activist affordances, and worldmaking between disabled and non-disabled siblings. We will discuss possible directions for future research as well as recommendations for service providers, decision makers, parents and others to contribute to building sustainable, inclusive support systems and better overall outcomes. This project is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
The event is on Wednesday 25th June 2025 at 6-7.30pm BST and 1-2.30. Email n.hayden@sheffield.ac.uk for information on signing up.

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Samantha Flynn @samanthaflynn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We’ve just published a paper in Tizard Learning Disability Review about engaging children with developmental disabilities in online data collection procedures: www.emerald.com/insight/cont... @nikitahayden.bsky.social @nikmanktelow.bsky.social

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Engaging children with developmental disabilities in online data collection procedures: reflections and implications for future research | Emerald Insight

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Nikita Hayden @nikitahayden.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Our next Sibling Studies Network colloquium is this Thursday, kicking off at 2pm GMT. We have an exciting lineup of talks from across the humanities and the social sciences (see images for agenda). Tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/sibli...

Programme:

2pm-2.10pm – Introduction, welcome.

2.10pm-3.10pm – Session 1: Relational Dynamics.

- Aersheng Haidabieke, Fudan University, China.
The associations between sibling bullying and peer bullying among adolescents: The moderating role of gender

- Derek Morgan, University of Missouri, U.S.A.
Sibling Problem Solving as a Mediator of Emerging Adult and Adolescent Sibling Closeness and Later Social Motivations

- Mel Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.
‘We were in the same boat and now we’re not’: sibling relationships and inherited variants of dementia

3.10pm-3.20pm – Break.

3.20pm-4.20pm – Session 2: Hidden, Missing and Absent.

- What Impact can a School Have on Siblings of Children with SEND and why is this Important?
Emma Bennett, Joshua Garrett-Smith and Lynne Wainwright - Willow Dene School, The Compass Partnership of Schools and Kings College London University, U.K.

-A Psychologist, a Sociologist and a Poet Walk into a Café: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Care-Experienced Young People’s Views of their Sibling Data
Katie Cebula, Christina McMellon , Thomas Bartlett, Craig Houston, and Kate Richardson - University of Edinburgh, Performance Poet and Stand Up for Siblings, U.K.

-Speaking the unspeakable. On grief and sibling suicide.
Laura Towers, University of Manchester, U.K.

4.20pm-4.30pm – Break.

4,30pm-5.30pm – Session 3: Stories & Narratives.

-Siblinghood and Learning Disability: The Role of Normative Expectations in Sibling Narratives
Tom Ryan, University of Sheffield, U.K

-‘Go to the Moon’: Re-Enacting and Re-Inscribing Neurodiverse Sibling Relationships in The Glass Menagerie and Other Plays
Emma Ettinger, University of Glasgow, U.K.

-Family Resilience in Sibling Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Mother-Child Dyads in China
Xiwen Fu and Yining Shi, University of Cambridge, U.K.

5.30pm-5.40pm – Discussion period.
5.50pm-6.00pm – Closing remarks.

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Saba Salman @sabasalman.com · 27/11/2024

Congrats to all involved in a book that seems to do something different. Not only as it's so collaborative but because it looks at issues starved of airtime, like supporting autistic people's siblings. And makes a distinction between autism and mental health; #autism isn't a #mentalhealth problem.

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Nikita Hayden @nikitahayden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Lovely to have received a copy of this terrific book. It was great to contribute a chapter with Clare from @sibs-uk.bsky.social. Thanks to the editors @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social Russell Hurn and Damian Milton

The cover of the following book: Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People Promoting Self-agency, Curiosity and Collaboration

A photo of a book’s contents page showing a chapter entitled ‘Working with siblings of autistic CYP’

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Saba Salman @sabasalman.com · 17/11/2024

'Sibling relationships are, in most cases, the longest relationship people will have in their lives'. For anyone keen on a whole family approach to care, on groups overlooked in research and how a sibling/family carer experience shapes us (positively and negatively). #LearningDisability #siblings

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Tom Crossland @parkhouseprincipal.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

An important change of focus in research with family members. IMO as suggested family outcomes are mediated by service and social barriers, not the individual characteristics of the family member with ID

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