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A new, ground breaking institute at the University of Sheffield.

Bringing together social sciences & humanities with psychological & biological sciences to understand what it means to be human like never before.

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Virtually Drama

October 31, 2018

Enacting autism inclusion

October 16, 2018

Critical Autism Studies

October 16, 2018

Disabled children’s childhood studies

October 16, 2018

Disability Studies at The University of Sheffield

October 5, 2018

Around the Toilet

October 5, 2018

The latest News & Events

November 23, 2018

Thinking about social justice through disability-as-opportunity: a dishuman approach

November 20, 2018 in Events

iHuman and Disability History Month

Dan Goodley presenting paper which considers the ways in which disability disavows normative constructions of the human

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November 20, 2018 in Blog, News

Exploring Multiple Childhoods Workshop: Linkoping, Sweden

 This year marks the 30th birthday of Tema Barn (Childhood Studies) at the University of…

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November 16, 2018 in News

What next for neurodiversity?

The British Dyslexia Association hosted a conference “Neuodiversity and Learning Differences”.  A range of speakers…

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November 13, 2018 in Blog, News

Imagining different futures with disabled young people

Imagine no one ever asking what your hopes, dreams, ambitions and fears are? Imagine being…

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Twitter Logo#GeneEditSummit thread still going strong with discussion of He Jiankiu's talk yesterday. So many links to follow!

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