New article from team member Naomi Jacobs, sharing findings from research with disabled members of churches on the right to participate in religious institutions, in the light of the Equality Act www.scienceopen.com/document?vid...

We had a great Research Group seminar today from Dr Nathan Keates, on Autistic Relations: Like-mindedness, Identities and Community. Through comedy improvisation, Nathan's research explores autistic people's ways of being social - as distinctive rather than a problem. #AutRes #AcademicSky 1/3

Please share! Reminder to please join us tomorrow (online or in-person @manmetuni.bsky.social) for the next free event in our research group seminar series. Please click the link below for information and booking: #AutRes #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #AutismResearch #AcademicSky

Please join us online and in-person this Wednesday (12th November) for the next event in our seminar series with Dr Nathan Keates - ' #Autistic Relations: Link-mindedness, Identities, and Community'. The event is free to attend and all are welcome! Please follow the link for more info and booking:

Updates on #Employment #Statistics for adults with #LearningDisabilities 2025/25 from Professor Chris Hatton's blog: chrishatton.blogspot.com/2025/10/empl... #AutRes #AcademicSky #Statistics #LearningDisabilityResearch

Professionals with experience of providing psychological therapy to adults with learning disabilities needed for research to develop a therapeutic working alliance measure for this population. Click here: forms.gle/L8TYrjxBBGhC... Please share @learningmet.bsky.social #LearningDisabilityResearch

Please share! The @digitallifeline.bsky.social project is looking for family carers, supporters, and professionals to take part in a research workshop about their experiences of supporting people with learning disabilities who received free digital devices during the COVID-19 pandemic. #AcademicSky

Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky

Thank you so much to the #DownsSyndromeAssociation for sharing our call for research participants. Did you support someone with a learning disability with a free digital device they received during the pandemic? Contact us to join one of our online workshops and share your experience:

Prof Chris Hatton has blogged about the recently-released LeDeR Annual Report 2023, including some worrying inconsistencies and trends there. "It looks like less attention and less scrutiny is being paid of the deaths of people with learning disabilities." chrishatton.blogspot.com/2025/09/lede...

Professor Sara Ryan's new book 'Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder' is out today. There's a Plain English summary on our website: learningmet.mmu.ac.uk/resources/

Did someone you work with receive a free tablet during the #COVID-19 pandemic? We want to hear about their experiences through our @digitallifeline.bsky.social accessible online survey. They could win £100 for taking part! #SelfAdvocacy #LearningDisabilities #AutRes #AcademicSky #DigitalInclusion

"The Government just don't even have a clue about what the pandemic has done to people like me, with an [intellectual] disability." Findings from research on ongoing impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic for people with learning disabilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @suecaton.bsky.social

'Our investigation of the experiences of public witnesses shows that, from their standpoint, FtP hearings are experienced as inherently unfair.' Follow the link to read more about findings emerging from the Witness to Harm project: @francescaribenfors.bsky.social @sarasiobhan.bsky.social

In this short video, Professor Sara Ryan, research group lead, and Professor Chris Hatton share more about the Learning Disability and Autism research group at @scswmcrmet.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social. #AcademicSky #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #ResearchGroup #ManMet

On Friday, we had a great first meeting with a new oversight group - people with learning disabilities, autistic people & family carers. They will be giving feedback on our team's research. We've been calling them the Critical Friends group, but watch this space - they're working on a better name!

For more information about the @medmentalhealth.bsky.social project, along with useful resources for talking about mental health medications, you can visit the project website: medmentalhealth.net #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch

Please share! Did your organisation support people with #LearningDisabilities to get set up with free tablets through the #DigitalLifelineFund in 2021? We want to hear from you! #LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #AutRes #Survey #SocialResearch #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLifeline

You can also read #comics about the stories of people with #LearningDisabilities, #carers, #families, and #prescribers: 📖: medmentalhealth.net#page-a #LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #MentalHealth

The Medications and My Mental Health Glossary says what important words about mental health and medication mean. For example, it says what a counsellor does. Read the glossary: medmentalhealth.net#page-1 #MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky

The conversation cards can give some ideas for talking to doctors, nurses, and pharmacists about mental health medications. Read the conversation cards: medmentalhealth.net#page-9 #MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek

The easy-read question and answer booklets give more information to help people talk about your mental health and medications. They answer questions like 'what is mental health?' Read the booklets here: medmentalhealth.net#page-2 #MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek

People with #LearningDisabilities are more likely to take mental health medications. The @medmentalhealth.bsky.social team have made lots of tools to help people with learning disabilities talk about their #MentalHealth medications. 🧰: medmentalhealth.net#information-... #LearningDisabilityWeek

'[...] transition is more than just a process or an event; it’s an intricate body of parts that connect and affect each other' Dr @francescaribenfors.bsky.social considers the impacts of transition on young people, mothers, and professionals. 📖 sjdr.se/articles/10.... #LearningDisabilityWeek

It's #LearningDisabilityWeek! We'll be sharing more about our research, and some of the resources we've created to support people with learning disabilities.

Today, Dr @suecaton.bsky.social will be speaking with the STOMP steering group at the South Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disabilities & Autism Provider Collaborative to share information and resources from the Medications and My Mental Health project. #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch

How can we make web design and content more accessible for everyone? #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #GAAD Read more: ukhomeoffice.github.io/accessibilit...

Today is #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay! #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch

Our final seminar speaker in our Activism series is Shaun Picken. Shaun is an advocate & activist at My Life My Choice @mylifemychoice1.bsky.social . Shaun wasn’t into politics when he got involved but that soon changed! He joined Power Up - research & advocacy on issues including benefit cuts. 🧵

Join us on Wednesday! Shaun Picken’s Activism and Advocacy Journey at My Life My Choice (@mylifemychoice1.bsky.social ) When: Wednesday, 14th May 2025 @ 12-1pm Where: Online Find out more and get the link below: #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #AcademicSky

Thank you to all who have joined us so far at this year's #seminarseries. We hope you can join us for our next seminar: Shaun Picken’s Activism and Advocacy Journey at My Life My Choice (@mylifemychoice1.bsky.social) When: Wednesday, 14th May 2025 @ 12-1pm Where: Online Book tickets below:

Our speaker for today’s @learningmet.bsky.social seminar is our own Dr Dawn Cavanagh, speaking about her organisation’s work for people with learning disabilities & autistic people in locked wards and for independent living. Stolen Lives, Activism & the Role of Academia in Defending Human Rights. 🧵

It’s tomorrow! Join us:

We are very excited to have our very own Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social discuss Stolen Lives at our next seminar this Wednesday (9th April @ 12-1pm) Join us in-person or online:

Event: Social Murder in Labour’s Pathways to Work Thursday, April 10th 5:30 - 7pm Professor Sara Ryan will be speaking alongside other academics, activists, and trade unionists on the implications of the ‘Pathways to Work’ green paper for disabled people. Click the link below for more info:

We are very pleased to share our refreshed project website with our new information toolkit resources to support people with learning disabilities with mental health medications www.medmentalhealth.net @profkrc.bsky.social @dawnc05.bsky.social @learningmet.bsky.social @chrishutchrnld.bsky.social

'Sitting on the margins, I can only achieve so much' - Ramandeep Kaur urges researchers and policy makers to work with, and for, people from marginalised communities, like her, and her son, Harry. #AcademicSky #AutRes #EduSky #FamilyCarers

Join us online tomorrow! #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #ResearchSeminar #AcademicSky #EduSky

There's just a few days left to apply for this funded PhD opportunity at @manmetuni.bsky.social which closes on 14th March. Click the link below for more information: #AcademicSky #PhDOpportunity #EduSky #FindAPhD

Update: please note that our next seminar session, 'Advocacy from the Margins', with Ramandeep Kaur, will now be online only. We hope that means even more of you can join us for what is sure to be a brilliant event! More information and booking:

What happened to Kasibba is still happening right now to autistic people, and people with a learning disability in our country. The abhorrent treatment Kasibba received is part of a systemic issue in social care that must be addressed.

New paper alert: Wellbeing of Family Carers of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK: Longitudinal Study #FamilyCarers #Carers #LearningDisabilityResearch #IntellectualDisabilityResearch #EduSky #AcademicSky

Reminder about our second hybrid seminar in the activist seminar series which will be held on 12th March! Click below to find out more and book: #AutRes #AcademicSky #EduSky #Activism

Reminder about this brilliant (funded!) PhD opportunity with Dr Monique Huysamen, Dr @suecaton.bsky.social and Professor @bevclough.bsky.social Please follow the link below for more information. Closing date: 14th March 2025 #AcademicSky #EduSky #PhD #AcademicChatter

Do you know that each local authority in England should have an up to date autism strategy? Well it turns out many don't. Find out about our study and database here youtu.be/6Xv-N4K4gWc?...

Great to see some fabulous feedback already coming in for today’s seminar. Thank you to everybody that attended!

🧵 Dr George Julian @georgejulian.bsky.social is our speaker today for @learningmet.bsky.social’s seminar series on activism. George is a knowledge transfer consultant & citizen journalist who reports on inquests into the deaths of learning disabled & autistic people. www.georgejulian.co.uk/about-me/

It's today! Join us at 12 for our seminar with Dr @georgejulian.bsky.social!

Activist Research in Focus: A Seminar Series Wednesday's seminar is the first of three brilliant upcoming hybrid seminars about activist research. Click below to read our flyer for more information: bit.ly/activismsemi...

So, so excited my new book is pretty much in publication. ‘Critical Health and Learning Disabilities; an Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder’ is out in the summer (Routledge).