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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

My first empirical paper, “Beyond normativity: negotiating chronicity as young people with an ostomy”, has been published in Social & Cultural Geography 🎉 You can access it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Beyond normativity: negotiating chronicity as young people with an ostomy

This paper challenges normative understandings of youth, disability, and the lifecourse through the conceptual lens of chronicity – the negotiations with, and embracement of, the enduring state of ...

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A wonderful launch of @thelrm.bsky.social’s book, Feminist Art of Walking 🌙💜 An evening of reflection, solidarity & everyday activism - a reminder that walking is art, resistance, and care all at the same time. Feeling inspired to slow down & ‘amble’ 🌃🚶🏻‍♀️ 📖 pictured below #Crip #Walking #Geography

A book titled “The Feminist Art of Walking” by Morag Rose rests on someone’s denim-clad lap. A round badge pinned to the book reads “Amble.” The book cover features a soft, pastel-toned landscape with reflections of trees and buildings.

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Darren @gredawarha.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thread 👇🏻

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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

More stitched squares shared by remote participants in our #StitchAssemblyRGS25 session at #RGS-IBG conference last month. Big thank you to all who took part & shared their reflections! @poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social

Two overlapping stitched squares. The bottom has dark grey and yellow small shapes stitched onto a salmon pink background, and the top features an embroidered raised fist with the text AC2025 RGS Black Teacher. A small yellow flower sits alongside the stitched piece.

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MobileWorlds @mobileworlds.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Huge thanks to the #StitchAssemblyRGS25, this was so inspiring! Some short keywords this piece embodies: #unfinished #together #outofthebox #(un)directionality #heartening #multiplepaths I look forward to seeing the joined quilt!❤️Hoping to reflect a bit of this spirit in the MobileWorlds Festival

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Tilly Robinson-Miles @tillyrobinsonmiles.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

My output inspired by what I believe the vision & values of my work in creating a #GoodFoodNation to 'build a long table not a higher wall' A table with people connecting and eating around it together. A space of equity.

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Tilly Robinson-Miles @tillyrobinsonmiles.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

@rgsibg.bsky.social #RGSStitchAssembly Loving the creativity theme of this years conference. Encouraging us all to pause, reflect & challenge ourselves.

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

🌟 Excited to share two new digital toolkits for people with an ileostomy or colostomy! 🌟 Created with GetYourBellyOut and digital artist Lucy Harman, based on my PhD research about young people’s experiences of living with an ostomy.

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Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas @drkcarrutherst.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Not a natural stitcher but loved participating in #StitchAssemblyRGS25 this morning!

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MobileWorlds @mobileworlds.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Just getting started on my stitched contribution to RGS 2025. Is this another way of connecting #arts and #research, #PhysicalMobility and #DigitalMibility? Thank you for this beautiful initiative! #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡 #mobileworlds #thirdcultures

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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Creative stitching workshop at the RGS. Geography meets craft in a fabulous moment of sharing time & space. #StitchAssemblyRGS25

What our table produced in an hour: five little stitched squares

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

✨ The Stitch Assembly is live at #RGSIBG2025 in Birmingham! Whether you’re here in person or joining from afar, we want you to feel part of our creative community. Find your moment to stitch & share! #StitchAssemblyRGS25 💫 🧵 A few snapshots so far 👇

Birmingham campus tower in the sun. No people are around and the green trees and plants look peaceful.

Hands reaching for differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table, holding scissors.

Hands holding differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table. There is also some thread and a needle on the table, and a small pair of scissors.

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

📢 The in-person Stitch Assembly is happening today at 11:10am (BST). I can’t wait to see some of you there 🎉 #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡

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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Prepping materials 🧵🏵️🧶for Stitch Assembly at #RGS-IBG Follow #StitchAssemblyRGS25 for updates, reflections & stitched quilt squares from remote participants & our in-person session. If you’re in Birmingham we’d love to see you there! @poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social

scraps of fabric and threads in a variety of colours

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

✨ Looking forward to the #RGSIBG2025! Join us for the Stitch Assembly 🧵 ⏰ Thursday, 11:10 - 12:50 (BST) 📍 Muirhead Building, Room 109 A creative space to stitch, reflect & connect - in Birmingham and beyond! 💫 #Creativity #StitchAssemblyRGS25

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Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Are you heading to #RGS-IBG AC2025 as an online-only delegate? We’re organising a hands-on creative workshop for you! Sign up to Stitch Assembly & we’ll post you a pack 👇😊🧵 docs.google.com/forms/d/1ytd... @poppybudworth.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

A selection of plant-dyed fabrics squares and scraps in different colours, and threads wound onto cardboard thread winders, arranged in a grid formation

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It is great that some of the belonging team are attending the @openuniversity.bsky.social conference together on the social history of people with learning disabilities, funded by @nihrsphr.bsky.social with @nihrsscr.bsky.social. We are looking forward to Day 2 today! ☀️

Photo of our research team. 8 of us - a mix of white men and women smiling. The man at the front is a wheelchair user and he holds a sign that says ‘we are the belonging project’

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'

Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Call for blogs

Series Three – How austerity alters disabled people’s lives and futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, and practice

Do you work at the intersection of disability and austerity? Do you have lived and/or research/policy-based experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series which focuses on the ways austerity shapes and changes disabled people’s lives and futures, and we want to hear from you!

If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’. If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know.

We approach disability inclusively and broadly. Please see post thread for full text details.

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Really excited to be collaborating with @dadafest.bsky.social Join this online round table with 5 brilliant artists on March 17th: using creative workshops to imagine better futures of care with & for people with energy limiting conditions @livuninews.bsky.social www.dadafest.co.uk/event/ignite...

Pictures of 5 artists: Khizra Ahmed, Julian Gray, Mish Green, Louise Kenward and Khairani Barokka. Text reads Ignite: Using Creative Workshops to Imagine Better Futures of Care For and With People with Energy Limiting Conditions. Dada International Festival. Online. Free.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Does Geography have a (working) class problem? If you don't already know the answer, this should help; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.

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A taste for deprivation? Fish, chips and leaving the European Union

This paper explores the relationship between food culture and political behaviour through the lens of the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the E…

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I really enjoyed the discussion we had at this ‘cuppa conundrums’ event hosted by the ‘re-imagining research practices’ team @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Photograph of welcome slide for the event which reads: ‘Cuppa Conundrums
Public Participation and Citizen
Science Research’

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Learning Disability England @learningdiseng.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's important everyone over 14 on their doctor's learning disability register has an annual health check. They can help you stay well and find any problems early. If you haven't been offered one you can ask your doctors practice if you can have one.

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Show Me How and Where You Belong project @belong-project.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We had our 1st Advisory Group meeting yesterday. It was great to meet everyone, talk about the Belonging Project, and listen to everyone's brilliant suggestions! Here is a picture from our meeting @poppybudworth.bsky.social @elaineljames.bsky.social @nihrsphr.bsky.social

A screenshot from our Teams Meeting. There are 10 people on the call. In order of people on the screen from left to right in rows: Poppy Budworth, Magdalena Mikulak, Umesh Chauhan, Ryan Cowley-Sharp, Kenneth Barnsley , Christopher Hatton, Kerry Martin, Kathy Peterson, Kate Sykes, Elaine James.

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is disgusting. Apart form the gross immorality of it, there is the practicality - get big corporations and multimillionaires to pay their taxes - that would create far more revenue than persecuting people on disability benefits.

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Show Me How and Where You Belong project @belong-project.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Some of our team met in York today. We talked about our plans for the belonging focus groups. It was great to meet each other in person and the sun came out! 🌞 @poppybudworth.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

A photograph of the doors in York train station which says 'Welcome to York.

A photograph or York Cathedral, with trees, some cars and a road in front of it. The sky is blue and there a few small white clouds but it is a sunny day.

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Show Me How and Where You Belong project @belong-project.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We really enjoyed our in-person training with Paradigm this time last month. We all met in London and practiced our focus group co-facilitation. We are looking forward to starting the research very soon!

A group of 16 of us. A festive elf in the front row. A group of disabled and non disabled researchers posing after a day of hard work!

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It’s a certain someone’s birthday and they are enjoying a treat 🎂 🍂 🐈‍⬛

Two pictures of my tortoiseshell cat called Autumn licking a chicken and catnip treat on her birthday. She is on the bed and we have white and black spotty covers on. Her ears are airoplaned!

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🚨DR UK's Statement on Passing of Assisted Dying Bill We stand firmly against a law that risks pressuring Disabled people into decisions driven by lack of options rather than genuine choice. This bill could reinforce the narrative that Disabled people’s lives are less valuable.

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

“At a time when social care is chronically underfunded, accessible housing is scarce, and many Disabled people are unable to afford food, energy, or other essentials, this legislation sends a chilling message: the government prioritises the right to die over the right to live.”

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’m so excited to reveal the cover for my brand new book, Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life. Out 17th April 2025 with Fig Tree, Penguin.

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Hunter D Phoenix 🐦‍🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @hunterdphoenix.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I appreciate all of you who use the Alt-text description for the images you post. As a blind dude I feel so much more included here. For those of you who forget: Did you know there’s a reminder in Settings/Accessibility to toggle on & then it won’t let you post image without Alt-text. Thanks 🙏😎

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Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello Bluesky from me and my sweet girl, Autumn 👋🏻

My tortoiseshell cat, Autumn, staring up at me with big green eyes surrounded by my checkerboard rug, blankets and the base of her scratch post.

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