Do you use ventilation (bipap/trach/NIV)? Do you want to share your story? We're looking for adults in the UK to take part in two online research interviews about their experiences. For more info and to request an information sheet: sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
Do you use #ventilation (bipap/trach/NIV)? Are you interested in theatre? Are you within reach of London? Would you like to work on, or star in, a new adaption of Romeo & Juliet while adding to research on what it means to be ventilated? Find out more at www.cripticarts.org/R&J
A new blog post from our Community Researcher, Amanda, on living with rare disease:
"Having your disease announced as a question, or as a joke, as you lie in a hospital bed, unable to move, is upsetting. It is a trigger to the times you struggled to be believed."
Absolutely loved chatting about all things breath with my Cripping Breath colleagues ❤️ Read about how we are reimagining what ‘reading’ together looks like
Take a look at how our new project reading group went! Our Community Researchers, Artists-in-Residence, academic researchers and clinicians coming together to explore breathing in literature 🙌🏽
Take a look at how our new project reading group went! Our Community Researchers, Artists-in-Residence, academic researchers and clinicians coming together to explore breathing in literature 🙌🏽
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.
...these are conversations we cannot & do not want to avoid [...] we need to find a way to sensitively consider proximity to death and the fragility of life as a reality in our work' - Julie Ellis
Our research associate Grace Joseph was in Germany last week at the International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference talking about Cripping Breath 🥳
We have a new member of our Clinical Advisory Group - Joe Purdey - learn more about Joe and our other clinical advisors here 🙌🏽 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
We want to recruit 3 disabled, chronically ill, & ventilated contemporary artists who require ventilatory support, such as non-invasive ventilation like CPAP or BIPAP, or other forms like a tracheostomy