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A poster which reads "It's a beautiful thing, the distruction of words." George Orwell. It also lists a number of words and phrases discouraged by US Federal Agencies 2025

WAARC Blog: A creative and anti-ableist higher education? Reflections from the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference

Liz Dew; Cassie Kill; Armineh Soorenian; Lauren White; Rebecca Lawthom
A wall of cuttings, drawings and scrawlings capturing some of the ambitions iHuman researchers have for Critical Disability Studies including slogans such as 'Love', 'Crip Killjoy', 'Work with bodies, desires and feelings', 'Difference, disagreement and conflict', 'remaking a different university differently'

A Manifesto for Critical Disability Studies

iHuman researchers had the opportunty to reimagine disability research through a creative workshop, developing a Manifesto for Critical Disability Studies
artistic visualisation from the joy in social research event
Artwork by Liam Callebout.

Joy in Social Research

This blog reflects on the ‘Joy in Social Research’ event, which created space for postgraduate and early career researchers to collaborate and critically engage in the concept of joy. It was funded by the Participatory Research Network and iHuman.
A wooden art piece of the word Helsinki framed by a speech bubble.
An art piece found in the foyer of the Helsinki City Hall

Disability in Education & Work: A Blog from Helsinki, Finland

By Rhea Halsey
Co-producing what it means to be trustworthy

On building trust: Co-producing what it means to be trustworthy

Trust is central to conversations of trustworthy autonomous systems. However, what does it mean to be trustworthy? What does trust mean? Who, or what, is involved when we talk about trust?
Paper Blog

Rethinking Deafness, film and accessibility

Spring/Summer blog post 2022 - iHuman blog and Education Matters
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Reimagining Trustworthy Autonomous Systems with Disabled Young People: Our Project Launch!

As a project team, we’re really excited to announce our project ‘Reimagining trustworthy autonomous systems with disabled young people’.
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Reimagining TAS with Disabled Young People

TAS are envisaged to become part of our everyday lives. Disabled young people (DYP) are key end-users and potential co-designers of these future systems, although their experiences and aspirations are rarely acknowledged.
Scrabble pieces spell out DISABILITY

The triple nexus of gender, disability and employment: who counts depends on who is counted?

In the EU28 over 44 million people aged between 15 and 64 years had a basic activity difficulty, and almost 35 million had a ‘disability in employment’.