Do you use ventilation (bipap/trach/NIV)? Do you want to share your story? We're looking for adults in the UK to take part in two online research interviews about their experiences. For more info and to request an information sheet: sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... youtu.be/-AoBsDM0dbw?...

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...

Do you use #ventilation (bipap/trach/NIV)? Are you interested in theatre? Are you within reach of London? Would you like to work on, or star in, a new adaption of Romeo & Juliet while adding to research on what it means to be ventilated? Find out more at www.cripticarts.org/R&J

A new blog post from our Community Researcher, Amanda, on living with rare disease: "Having your disease announced as a question, or as a joke, as you lie in a hospital bed, unable to move, is upsetting. It is a trigger to the times you struggled to be believed." sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

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

*New Blog Post!* Cripping Breath abroad: Conference attendance and considering access www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

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Absolutely loved chatting about all things breath with my Cripping Breath colleagues ❤️ Read about how we are reimagining what ‘reading’ together looks like

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...

Our first project article co-authored as a full team! *Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies* Check it out here, open access #DisabilityResearch www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

One of our recent articles published in Frontiers in Sociology just reached a new impact milestone. Here is the link if you would like to read our study: www.frontiersin.org/article/1600...

Take a look at how our new project reading group went! Our Community Researchers, Artists-in-Residence, academic researchers and clinicians coming together to explore breathing in literature 🙌🏽 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

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...

Don't forget - we are recruiting Artist Collaborators! Learn more about this fabulous opportunity here! These artists will participate in a collaborative residency alongside Artist-in-Residence Dr Louise Atkinson. www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

...these are conversations we cannot & do not want to avoid [...] we need to find a way to sensitively consider proximity to death and the fragility of life as a reality in our work' - Julie Ellis www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... @pathfindersnma.bsky.social @cripticarts.bsky.social

**New Blog post** #10 ‘Sitting’ with sadness: death and loss in research by our brilliant Dr Julie Ellis www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

Our research associate Grace Joseph was in Germany last week at the International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference talking about Cripping Breath 🥳 Blog post coming soon! iftr.org

The Evolution of Lungs - In Our Time www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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 🙌🏽 Take a look via the link below!

We have a new member of our Clinical Advisory Group - Joe Purdey - learn more about Joe and our other clinical advisors here 🙌🏽 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

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

'Every single human being has the basic human right and need to breathe, and it costs nothing, after all the air we breathe is free. Or is it?' www.cost-ofliving.net/the-cost-of-...

** Opportunity** We want to recruit 3 disabled, chronically ill, & ventilated contemporary artists who require ventilatory support, such as non-invasive ventilation like CPAP or BIPAP, or other forms like a tracheostomy www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... Please share widely! 🙌🏽

Our brilliant Community Researcher Libby has had her team blogpost republished on external blog, The Cost of Living 🙌🏽 Congratulations, Libby! www.cost-ofliving.net/the-cost-of-...

@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...

Our brilliant Research Associate & Community Research Lead @drsuzanneglover.bsky.social is speaking at this great event 🙌🏽 Learn more here www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social

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...

Great to see this coming out of Sheffield - Readable research: We produce clear, simple summaries of scientific research hot off the press. www.readableresearch.com

'The cost of breathing is something that most never need to think about, but for those who rely on ventilators, many face an uncertain financial future without radical change to recognise that assisted breathing is an essential cost...' www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

Our blog today unpacks care, state care & responsibility, and breathing: 'This is compounded by the fact that there is no section within the PIP assessment process that specifically assesses breathing as a daily living activity.' sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

'For people who live with ventilation, breathing is not something that comes naturally and not something that comes for free.' sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre... #WorldHMVDay #CareIsKey

An article by our wonderful Research Associate Dr Julie Ellis Matter of Fact: Using Creative Film to Disseminate Sensitive Research in Medical Sociology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Tomorrow is a big day in the Cripping Breath calendar! World HMV (Home Mechanical Ventilation) Day 2025 www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-da...

Come and join us this evening! 🙌🏽

Tomorrow is World HMV Day, which supports ventilated people, patients & their families. This year's theme is #HMVCareIsKey We have a very special blog post out tomorrow troubling the current context of care in relation to HMV written by one of our community researchers👍 @pathfindersnma.bsky.social

Come and see us at the Pint of Science next Monday evening in Sheffield! Our researchers Jen Kettle and Julie Ellis will be leading an accessible talk, How is breath a political issue? Learn more here! pintofscience.co.uk/event/power-...

*New Post* Blog post #7 Experts by experience: Our Community Researcher Cooperative www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

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

Check out our new blogpost by Grace Joseph & Louise Atkinson: This blog post focuses on a visit to MIMA in Middlesbrough to see Towards New Worlds, an exhibition showcasing disabled, Deaf, & neurodivergent artists. www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

Equality, diversity and inclusion in research. More than a tick box in a research ethics application. www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/news/... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social

Cripping Breath has connected with @asthmaandlung.org.uk & Home Mechanical Ventilation in Partnership (HMViP) who are running a new Home Ventilation group for people living on or with ventilation 🙌🏽 You can sign up for the sessions here zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In the second of a two-part series, researchers work with Squeeze Box, a disability-activist collaborative process, to provide a ‘toolkit’ of creative evaluation methods that go beyond the quantitative demands of arts funders. thepolyphony.org/2025/03/21/a...

It was great to run with @sagebrice.bsky.social a workshop on Graphic Research Methods and Queer Medical Humanities! I have learnt so much from the discussion! Many thanks to @durhamimh.bsky.social for making this event a safe space to address sensitive issues.

New Report: The Covid-19 pandemic: What has been the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion in the UK research and innovation ecosystem? 🧵 go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/CovidR... #Research #AcademicSky #CovidImpact #Covid19Research #EDI #DEI #Inclusion #Diversity

Our researchers @drsuzanneglover.bsky.social and @jen-kettle.bsky.social met with the Co-production Collective today. It's a fantastic connection - learn more here coproductioncollective.co.uk @disabilitymatters.bsky.social @bgibsonsociologist.bsky.social @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social

'Like Johnson’s self-archiving, one of our aims in Cripping Breath is to foreground the often invisible conditions underpinning artistic work, from the time-dependent nature of creative energy to the material & spatial adjustments necessary to sustain a practice.' www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

This is the first of two great readings this week! It covers the journey into and through ventilation. @crippingbreath.bsky.social what are your thoughts on the human-centered design framework in the context of critical disability studies? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #ventilation

*New blog post* by team member by Louise Atkinson! Nerys Johnson: Disability and Practice www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

Next week, our Artist-in-Residence Louise Atkinson & our Research Associate Grace Joseph are attending the Blindness and Expanded Sculpture Conference at Leeds Art Gallery 🙌🏽 henry-moore.org/whats-on/bli...