Good luck to all our 2025 Staff Award nominees! Keep an eye on our feeds as we’ll be revealing the winners later today! 🤩🙌

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:

Do you know any organisations who supported people with learning disabilities with digital devices during the pandemic? We are looking to find some more for our research. Any help much appreciated

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

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/

Our @digitallifeline.bsky.social project has worked with @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social #ARCEngland @learningdiseng.bsky.social @seeability.bsky.social, and people with learning disabilities to develop an accessible online survey. More info below or at digitallifeline.org

There’s still time for people with #LearningDisabilities to take part in our survey! Contact us for more information. #DigitalInclusion #SelfAdvocacy #Accessibility #Inclusion #AcademicSky

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!

"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

Francesca Ribenfors from @learningmet.bsky.social talking about #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth led by @suecaton.bsky.social #TCC2025

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

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

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

I had an amazing visit to Warrington Speak Up this morning to see the premiere of their film 'Do you see me?' as part of Learning Disability Awareness Week. There was over 80 people there from Warrington organisations - amazing job! Hoping they’ll make the wonderful & uplifting film shareable soon

'[...] 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.

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. 🧵

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

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

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

Absolutely brilliant talk by @dawnc05.bsky.social today at @learningmet.bsky.social. Not easy to listen to the awful experiences she shares, but so in awe of the Dawn’s commitment to challenge and protest.

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:

What a fantastic project to have been part of. Please check out the coproduced resources for ppl with LD and share widely @jbeebee.bsky.social @gwenmoulster.bsky.social @davidh7.bsky.social @daveweigel.bsky.social

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

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

Last few spaces available on the April Supporting Medication Workshops - book now to avoid disappointment! 💊 bit.ly/4i5jxek bit.ly/4iqPtcW

Wellbeing of Family Carers of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK: Longitudinal Study

'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

Packed room to start the day at the @learningdiseng.bsky.social conference in Manchester! Looking forward to a great day.

Fab thread from the seminar which was brilliant. In awe of @georgejulian.bsky.social. ♥️

Introducing the #DigitalLifeline project website! digitallifeline.org Here you can find out everything you need to know about the project (so far!), our partners, and team, and how to contact us about the research.

We're now at the exciting stage of piloting the #DigitalLifeline survey with help from a self-advocacy group in Greater Manchester. We had some great feedback and ideas to enhance the survey further before it goes live!

The #DigitalLifeline project considers the outcomes of the Government's COVID-19 #DigitalLifelineFund by learning more about people with #LearningDisabilities ' experiences of using tablets they were given during the pandemic. The website is now live with lots more information about the research:

We’re really pleased to have our @digitallifeline.bsky.social website up and running now

19th Feb, 2025: #GeorgeJulian, known for her live reporting of coronial inquests, will talk about her work over the last decade, and some thoughts about how we can work together to continue to highlight the injustices faced by #LearningDisabled and #autistic people. #AutRes #EduSky #AcademicSky

Has a great day today at the LSCFT Research and Development conference 'Making research everyone's business' - talking about the inclusive approaches we took with the @medmentalhealth.bsky.social project with our co-researcher Mark O’Farrell.

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

Our research group is advertising a funded PhD opportunity with a focus on the mental capacity act, learning disabilities and sexual decision-making. The student will be supervised by @moniquehuy.bsky.social @bevclough.bsky.social and me. Please share!

Please share: new funded PhD opportunity! Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities To find out more please follow the link below: #AcademicSky #FindAPhD #PhD #LearningDisabilitiesResearch

Brilliant new #openaccess paper by @drjessmannion.bsky.social and team! #CreativeResearchMethods #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilitiesResearch

Come and do a fully funded PhD with me and brilliant colleagues @moniquehuy.bsky.social and @suecaton.bsky.social at MMU on Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

To learn more about the mental health experiences of #FamilyCarers of people with #LearningDisabilities, check out the fabulous guide from the 'Tired of Spinning Plates?' project below:

Re-introducing the @digitallifeline.bsky.social project, led by Dr @suecaton.bsky.social! Check out the BlueSky page below to watch the introductory video, and follow along with us there or email [email protected] to learn more about the project! #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch

Exciting times for the #DigitalLifeline project as work is well under way for the first phase of our research, and those who gave out tablets as part of the original #DigitalLifelineFund have now been contact about taking part!

Join us (in-person or online) for the next event in our research group seminar series! Campaigner to Court Reporter: My life as an accidental activist by George Julian Wednesday, 19th Feb, 2025 @ 12:00-13:00 Find more info and sign up here: #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #AcademicSky

Please see exciting opportunity to join our amazing international team of Associate Editors for the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Please share with anyone who may be interested in applying.

Didn't realise you are on here too @mrscottwatkin.bsky.social ! Spotted you in @lisahopkins01.bsky.social feed 😀 Welcome. Have added you to this list too...hope that's OK. Lots of great folks to follow in here go.bsky.app/4JubDE9

Our @learningmet.bsky.social PhD student, Alex, is looking for research participants for a project around autism and equine assisted supports. See flyer below and there’s an online survey here: mmu.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...