I'm excited to announce I have just passed my PhD viva with no corrections! So pleased that 4 1/2 years' work has paid off and thank you to my lovely examiners @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social and @leahfburch.bsky.social and Chair Jennifer Allsop for a great discussion.

So dismayed by the lack of resolution - industrial action at UoS continues 🥹 #DigitalPicket @ucu.org.uk As a researcher, striking for me is about mitigating the endless restructuring of, & redundancies for, our excellent professional services colleagues, whose labour makes our research possible 💪🏽

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Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active #DigitalPicket too @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We absolutely cannot accept this! We need to stand together and support in every way we can! Solidarity.

@sheffielducu.bsky.social Do the University’s financial reports support the need to make job cuts? #DigitalPicket #Sheffield t.co/pmTtz6x6kx

We hope that this strong mandate encourages Management to make an offer that will avert the need to take strike action. Meanwhile, members will meet on Thursday to discuss how to use this mandate most effectively to protect jobs & fight back against worsening of our workloads & working conditions.

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

Getting ready for the #picket line! And I won't miss our rally with @sheffielducu.bsky.social & @ucuhallam.bsky.social (12.30 Barkers Pool). All that we ask is to get on with our work without being subjected to continuous harassment. @ucu.org.uk #ucustrike #Sheffield www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Tomorrow @sheffielducu.bsky.social begins four weeks of strike action over the continuous restructuring of programs and departments and threats of compulsory redundancies imposed by university management. We are holding a joint rally with our sister branch at SHU which is facing similar threats.

Tomorrow I’m back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social over the university’s refusal to rule out redundancies and stop the neverending cycle of unjustified restructures. East Asian studies remains under explicit threat of job cuts, but I’d be there even if we weren’t. We stand together.

Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket

As part of our Special Issue, I wrote my first article engaging with Disability Studies & crip theory (eek) and discovered the brilliant work of @sunaura.bsky.social, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril & @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social, among others. I couldn’t recommend their work more! 🔗 tinyurl.com/2emhnz7w

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...

If you have some time today, have a read of this beautiful blog post 👍

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

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...

So proud to be affiliated with this great journal - new issue available here! 🙌🏽 www.scienceopen.com/collection/f...

As the weather heats up again this weekend, BuDS urges everyone to take precautions and look after themselves and their loved ones. buds.org.uk/heatwave-tip...

"In co-produced research building in access to welfare advice is essential because that allows equal access to participation" Julia Lawrence, IPSA project www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/brows... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social

Welcome to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference's takeover of the Polyphony site, from today until Tuesday next week. Here co-organiser @louisecreechan.bsky.social kicks us off by asking: 'What is critical neurodiversity studies'? thepolyphony.org/2025/06/23/c...

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...

Fantastic post within a fantastic project - take a look! 🥳

Check it out! journals.sagepub.com/toc/FAP/curr...

I have a paper in this co-authored by the excellent Ned Coleman-Fountain, David Abbott & Alex Toft. It’s a piece of work I’m really proud of. It gets at some nuanced complexities of gender &sexuality in PA. Great to see it out with all its paper pals in this special issue. Excited to read the others

Very proud to share this special issue of Feminism and Psychology, co-edited with Rebecca Lawthom ** Disability as a feminist issue ** It includes papers on trauma, affect, sexism, psycho-emotional disablism, care, contesting psy, sexuality & more! journals.sagepub.com/toc/FAP/curr...

I had such a lovely day at @sheffielduni.bsky.social with The Participatory Research Network. I really enjoyed facilitating the workshop on Creative Collaborative Data Analysis with such a fantastic group of PGR’s & ECR’s. #DataAnalysis @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social

This looks an amazing opportunity for somebody.

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

Please take a look and share! 🙌🏽 @pathfindersnma.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk @mdukcharity.bsky.social @sophphillips32.bsky.social @profkrc.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @naomijacobs.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com

Following last week's announcement of our two new Executive Editors Dr @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social & Prof Heng-hao Chang, we're thrilled to announce 5 wonderful new IJDSJ Editorial Board members: ✨Dr Kurt Borg ✨Dr Paul Darke ✨Dr @antoniosktenidis.bsky.social ✨Dr Amy Redhead ✨Prof Tania Titchkosky

@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...

Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Tickets are here!!! 📣 📆 June 11th ⏰️ 9.30 - 4.30 💵 Free 3 amazing sessions, 2 unmissable keynote speakers, 1 amazing creative workshop, 2 BSL interpreters... #MadCrip www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Liverpool Hope hosts one of the most important and influential Disability Studies departments in the UK. Their emphasis on literary and cultural disability studies has produced research that has radically shaped thinking in the discipline and beyond and they have huge international reach.

Our students REALLY showed up today. Protesting outside of our VC's newly refurbished office.

For the morning crowd - please do sign and share. Every single one of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope is at risk of redundancy. This isn't just about individuals; it's a threat to the field itself.

Lovely to see so much support challenging the proposed mass redundancy at Liverpool Hope that disproportionately targets us within Social Sciences and more specifically, Disability Studies. Thank you to the wonderful Jill Pluquailec for writing this. Please sign & share @ucu.org.uk

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...

🗞️NEWS ALERT!🗞️ Announcing two new Executive Editors at the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. Dr Kirsty Liddiard (@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social) of the @sheffielduni.bsky.social and Prof. Heng-hao Chang of National Taipei University, Taiwan. Warm welcome to both!

Thrilled that @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social is now an Executive Editor of the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. Kirsty has been with us on the IJDSJ from the very beginning, as a long-standing Board member. #comrade Looking forward to working with you Kirsty!

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The I'm Me Festival will be held at the Creative Centre at York St John University, Lord Mayor's Walk. Each day will feature theatre, dance and music performance, a film screening, workshops and an exhibition telling the story of the research. www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/ins...

Loved working on this - open access and free to read 🙌🏽

My brilliant colleague Armineh Soorenian's new project - take a look! www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...

Covid infection levels in England have resumed their slow increase. In the week to 4 May, around 1 in every 250 people in England were infected, and the overall Covid risk remains Moderately High. buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

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

Solidarity with @sheffielducu.bsky.social and all those striking today ✊