JOIN US for our event in Sheffield on 3rd December www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hope-in-ti...

Such an exciting launch day for Beautiful Mystery! I'm a guest on two podcasts that dropped today, with two wonderful hosts: Michelle Glogovac and Kelley Vick. Read the Damn Book (podcast): open.spotify.com/episode/6VBY... Literary Prospects (podcast): www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEN...

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR CDS PGR CONFERENCE on 17th September disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/events/pgrco...

Our PGR Network are hosting a conference 'Disability within Environments: disability studies perspectives' on 17th September 2025. The call for papers is live with a deadline of 12th June. Please share with your networks

Cripping ethnography: Disability Creativity and Ethnographic Research panel! @sumicol.bsky.social @erindurban.bsky.social

It is a privilege to be presenting at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference in Portland, Oregon today! The title of my paper is - Care in the Neoliberal Academy: Exploring the Disruption of Disabled Academics’ Embodied Experiences.

Anti-ableist resources pools key readings, advice and support from university researchers and disabled people's organisations: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

See this important protest happening in Leeds next wednesday morning about cuts to disability benefits! facebook.com/events/s/lee...

Have a look at what our network has to offer through this Blog post. We will be announcing our next event, taking place in June, very soon so watch this space! www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-w...

My (updated) research profile essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology-re...

Wowza! Page proofs! The thing is typeset - it’s really happening?! This is technically my second book, but in a lot of ways that count, it is my first book… the book that developed out of my dissertation.

RIP Devva Kasnitz - a truly inspirational, kind, fiery disability scholar and activist! The DS community has lost a kindred spirit, but she will never be forgotten. An infrastructural activist whose influence knows no bounds. Thank you for all you’ve taught me 💛 portrait by Mallory Kay Nelson

@wrdisability.bsky.social Follow this disability networks - run by Northern PGRs in the UK for Northern Disability Studies students! 💛

📢 New job! Come work with our lovely colleague Jade French on a 4 year inclusive arts action research project! Please share widely! Closing date 10th January jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Our “Cripping Ethnography: Disability Creativity and Ethnographic Research” panel with @sumicol.bsky.social, @mirandadj.bsky.social, @kikiyates.bsky.social, and Sailer was accepted at SfAA! Anyone else going to Portland for the conference? #disabilityanthropology appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti...

To echo what Erin said, Anna Jaysane-Darr and I have co-edited a volume through Routledge titled "The Disabled Anthropologist." It should be available by Spring, perhaps by April. The contributors range from graduate students to retirees and those early or mid-career.

Reflections on our recent conference from PGR students Ruby Goodley and Johanna Knebel bit.ly/PGRreflections

Today our Claudia Coveney launched her excellent new book, introduced by Miro Griffiths and in discussion with Tom Campbell and Mark Priestley. bit.ly/Coveney2024

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on X from January 20th The organisation stated that it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

I’m sure there are more folks out there who I haven’t connected with yet in disability anthropology or who use ethnographic approaches to critical disability studies. Send me a note if you’d like to be added! ❤️ #disability #anthropology #ethnography #CriticalDisabilityStudies