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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · 6d

Please join us! This is sure to be a super interesting event. #AcademicSky

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 14d

Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky

A flyer for an online symposium with white text and speakers' photos on a brick wall background. Text reads: Wed 8th October 12-2pm. Religions, Faith Communities and Disability. Online symposium with speakers Dr Krysia Waldock, Bernice Hardie and Fiona MacMillan. Chaired by Dr Naomi Jacobs. Link to event via Eventbrite.

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 New paper: I worked on the #BritishAcademy Young Workers project in 2021 which involved qual. interviews w/ young people who are over-represented in the precarious work market and very aware of injustices they faced although none formally politically active. Interesting read!

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Jul 16

Our @digitallifeline.bsky.social project has worked with @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social #ARCEngland @learningdiseng.bsky.social @seeability.bsky.social, and people with learning disabilities to develop an accessible online survey. More info below or at digitallifeline.org

Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · Jul 16

There’s still time for people with #LearningDisabilities to take part in our survey!

Contact us for more information.

#DigitalInclusion #SelfAdvocacy #Accessibility #Inclusion #AcademicSky

Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · Jun 19

Please share!

Did your organisation support people with #LearningDisabilities to get set up with free tablets through the #DigitalLifelineFund in 2021? We want to hear from you!

#LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #AutRes #Survey #SocialResearch #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLifeline

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Digital Lifeline Research @digitallifeline.bsky.social · Jun 19

Please share!

Did your organisation support people with #LearningDisabilities to get set up with free tablets through the #DigitalLifelineFund in 2021? We want to hear from you!

#LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #AutRes #Survey #SocialResearch #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLifeline

Do you know someone with a learning disability who got a tablet in 2021 through the Digital Lifeline Fund?

They could win up to £100 for telling us about their experiences (with multiple chances to win!) and your organisation will get a thank-you payment for connecting us with them.

E-mail us: digitallifeline@mmu.ac.uk for more

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Jun 18

Our research group is doing a round up of some of the resources we’ve created for people with #LearningDisabilities this #LearningDisabilityWeek:

#AcademicSky

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jun 18

People with #LearningDisabilities are more likely to take mental health medications. The @medmentalhealth.bsky.social team have made lots of tools to help people with learning disabilities talk about their #MentalHealth medications.

🧰: medmentalhealth.net#information-...

#LearningDisabilityWeek

Medications and My Mental Health

medmentalhealth.net

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Apr 7

We are very excited to have our very own Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social discuss Stolen Lives at our next seminar this Wednesday (9th April @ 12-1pm)

Join us in-person or online:

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Mar 11

Join us online tomorrow!

#AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #ResearchSeminar #AcademicSky #EduSky

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Feb 17

Advocacy from the Margins

March 12th 2025 @ 12pm - 1pm. Online & In-Person

Ramandeep Kaur, campaigner and parent activist, reflects on advocacy and activism from the perspective of an ethnic minoritised community.

More info: www.ramandeepkaur.co.uk

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · Feb 19

I really like this conceptualization of reflexivity by Braun & Clarke (2022):

"good reflexivity isn't a surface reflection, it isn't a comforting feeling or something designed to make you feel like a better person; it can and should be discomforting, unsettling, and change-bringing."

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Laura Fox @laurajfox.bsky.social · Feb 17

Our report exploring the experiences of mental health support available to parents of children with SEND in and around the York area is now available!

#mentalhealth #SEND #support @york.ac.uk @uoyeducation.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/MFUoY

It’s been fight, fight, fight for three years: Mental health provision and the experiences of parents of children with SEND in York

tinyurl.com

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Feb 14

Shared our @digitallifeline.bsky.social with supporting hubs this morning and had some lovely feedback about the accessibility of our survey. Now excited to get it out there!

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Isabel “Izzy” Black (Joely) @autisticalchemyst.bsky.social · Feb 13

Here for a Foucault joke on "Foucault Week", when we examine Foucault's assessment of the asylum in the 19th century. #AcademicSky

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Feb 13

Sociologists... #AcademicChatter

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Dr Jess Mannion @drjessmannion.bsky.social · Feb 10

Delighted to be presenting a paper ‘Why haven't we done this sooner? Clashing and grappling within a co-produced disability study using creative research methods’, at the Inclusive Creative Methods Symposium at York St John University.
Free tickets here.

Inclusive Creative Methods Symposium | York St John University

The symposium brings together international speakers from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, including theatre, architecture, psychology, education and health.

www.yorksj.ac.uk

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Feb 11

Check out the varied range of resources available via the SAAIL website in relation to supporting autistic adults’ intimate lives 👇🏻

#AutRes #AutismResearch #ActuallyAutistic #AcademicSmy

SAAIL: Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives @autlives.bsky.social · Feb 10

Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives (SAAIL) have a range of outputs from videos, to toolkits, to podcasts. You can find them all there www.autlives.com/outputs

Outputs | SAAIL: Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives

Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives outputs

www.autlives.com

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Feb 9

I find this so interesting! I also read an article once where people described what stimming felt like and the answers were so varied.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Dec 18

“Where are the findings? You only provide quotes.”

New article considers qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback

Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0...

Few quotes follow 🧵

Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative researchers’ experiences of this process have been largely overlooked. Existing research and commentary have focused on peer reviewers’ comments on qualitative articles, which are often described as indicative of a quantitative mindset or hostility to nonpositivist qualitative research. We extend this literature by focusing on qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent reviewer and editor comments—comments that are incommensurate with the conceptual foundations of the reviewed research. Qualitative researchers (N = 163) from a range of health and social science disciplines, including psychology, responded to a brief qualitative survey. Most contributors reported that peer reviewers and editors universalized the assumptions and expectations of postpositivist research and reporting. Some also reported that peer reviewers and editors universalized the norms and values particular to specific qualitative approaches. Contributors were concerned that peer reviewers often accept review invitations when they lack relevant methodological expertise and editors often select peer reviewers without such expertise. In response to methodologically incongruent comments, many contributors described a process of initially “pushing back” and explaining why these comments were incongruent with their research. When this educative approach was unsuccessful, some knowingly compromised the methodological integrity of their research and acquiesced to reviewer and editor requests. Earlier career researchers especially highlighted the powerlessness they felt in the peer review process in the context of a “publish or perish” academic climate. We end by outlining contributors’ recommendations for improving the methodological integrity of the peer review of qualitative research.

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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · Jan 17

The Education Beyond Borders programme is offering up to 30 scholarships to displaced people to study on a full-time postgraduate programme, starting in Sept 2025.

Applications close on 3 Feb.

Learn more ▶️ edin.ac/4atqEKv

Contact ✉️ [email protected] for further enquiries.

Panoramic view of the quadrant at Edinburgh University Law School, with a grass centre-piece surrounded by old buildings, lit up in the sunshine.

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jan 29

Brilliant new #openaccess paper by @drjessmannion.bsky.social and team!

#CreativeResearchMethods #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilitiesResearch

Researching Together: Researchers With and Without Disabilities Engage Across National and Interdisciplinary Boundaries

Introduction The Relationships and Sexuality Research Team consists of researchers with learning disabilities who specialise in research on sexual citizenship and use visual and creative research me...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Jan 28

#AcademicChatter

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Jan 28

🚨 Funded PhD opportunity in #LearningDisabilityResearch for a UK home student:

#AcademicSky #FundedPhD

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jan 28

Please share: new funded PhD opportunity!

Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities

To find out more please follow the link below:

#AcademicSky #FindAPhD #PhD #LearningDisabilitiesResearch

Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities at Manchester Metropolitan University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities at Manchester Metropolitan University, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Jan 20

Join us (in-person or online) for the next event in our research group seminar series!

Campaigner to Court Reporter: My life as an accidental activist by George Julian

Wednesday, 19th Feb, 2025 @ 12:00-13:00

Find more info and sign up here:

#AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #AcademicSky

Campaigner to Court Reporter: My life as an accidental activist

The Learning Disability & Autism Research Group at Manchester Met welcome guest speaker George Julian.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Dec 11

Sensational! 🎄 #AltText

RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · Dec 4

Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think.

Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!

A bright pink instructional graphic titled “How to sleigh alt text.” It includes colourful headings labelled Identify Who (in green), Expression (blue), Description (pink), Colour (red), and Interesting Features (grey). On the right side, there’s a sample alt text description in various colours that reads: “Santa Claus looking happy as he waves at the camera. He wears a traditional red suit and hat and has a long white beard and glasses. There are colourful lights twinkly behind him.” Below the text, a photo of Santa Claus is shown, waving with a big smile against a background of twinkling, colourful holiday lights

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Dec 11

Today!

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Dec 3

Please join us in-person or online for the next event in our research group seminar series. Nathaniel Lawford will be discussing the history and significance of the self-advocacy movement for people with learning disabilities and/or autism in England.

Follow the link to find out more, and join us:

Learning Disabilities and Autism Seminar Series: Advocating for Advocacy

The Learning Disability & Autism Research Group welcome guest speaker Nathaniel Lawford.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Dec 4

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Dec 3

Please join us! #AutRes #LearningDisabilitiesResearch #SelfAdvocacy

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Dec 3

Please join us in-person or online for the next event in our research group seminar series. Nathaniel Lawford will be discussing the history and significance of the self-advocacy movement for people with learning disabilities and/or autism in England.

Follow the link to find out more, and join us:

Learning Disabilities and Autism Seminar Series: Advocating for Advocacy

The Learning Disability & Autism Research Group welcome guest speaker Nathaniel Lawford.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Adele Swingewood @itsadele.bsky.social · Dec 3

A great resource from Dr Monique Huysamen and the SAAIL team:

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · Dec 3

Experiencing and Managing Rejection: a toolkit for autistic adults

www.autlives.com/managing-rej...

#AutRes #Autism #AutisticAdult #ActuallyAutistic

Toolkit for autistic people | SAAIL: Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives

www.autlives.com

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