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Dan Goodley

@dangoodley.bsky.social

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Dad, activist, politics, sewist, music and NFFC obsessive

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Ruby Goodley @rubygoodley.bsky.social · Mar 26

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

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Ruby Goodley @rubygoodley.bsky.social · Mar 26

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.

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Dan Goodley @dangoodley.bsky.social · Mar 25

Anti-ableist resources pools key readings, advice and support from university researchers and disabled people's organisations:

www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc...

Anti-ableist Resources

Resources from WAARC and external organisations

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Disability Matters @dismatters.bsky.social · Mar 21

Our brilliant Ankita recently went to India and visited our partner DPOs. Check out her fantastic blog on collaborative partnership and building meaningful connections with disabled communities to challenge traditional power dynamics: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

Building Bridges in Disability Matters: My Journey in India (Dec 2024 to Jan 2025)

By Ankita Mishra

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NADSN @nadsn.bsky.social · Mar 20

Introducing NADSN’s White Paper:Towards a Fully Inclusive Environment for Disabled People in STEMM

📅 Launch Event: 31 March, 16:00-18:00
📍 Glasgow and online
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nadsn-whit...

Join us & help drive change! #NADSNWhitePaper #DisabledInSTEMM

An illustration of a group of disabled people with stars and atoms. Its reads: Join us for the launch of our white paper: Towards a fully inclusive environment for disabled people in STEMM. 31 March 2025. Glasgow and Online.

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Dan Goodley @dangoodley.bsky.social · Mar 19

Goodley, Dan, Kirsty Liddiard and Rebecca Lawthom. 2025. “The Depathologising University.” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 27(1): 120–133. DOI: doi.org/10.16993/sjd...

The Depathologising University | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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Dan Goodley @dangoodley.bsky.social · Mar 19

Humanising Healthcare includes researchers from clinical, university, advocacy and workers cooperative communities and we are committed to sharing the findings of our research in a variety of formats.

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Dr Amy Kavanagh @blondehistorian.bsky.social · Mar 17

Joy as a disabled person is a radical act.

I have edited a series for Wellcome Collection Stories which explores what it means to be joyful, defiant and disabled.

The series starts with a passionate performance by @katestanforthdance.bsky.social
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Ballet, beauty, and the joy of wheelchair dance

Since childhood, Kate Stanforth has danced whenever and wherever she could. The only difference now is her wheelchair.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · Jan 24

🤗A very warm welcome to Ifejuola Atunwa, who joins the Platform as our Partnerships and Engagement Intern! Discover more about Ifejuola below:

www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

A photograph of Ifejuola Atunwa wearing an academic gown in Durham Cathedral cloisters.

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Dan Goodley @dangoodley.bsky.social · Dec 11

This morning we learned of the sudden passing of Professor Anita Ghai: the brilliant, groundbreaking and critically acclaimed disability studies scholar. Anita was a dear friend of Disability Matters

www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/news/...

Professor Anita Ghai, Rest in Power

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Dan Goodley @dangoodley.bsky.social · Nov 25

This sounds incredibly important - are you publishing ?