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New paper: Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection

Colleagues in iHuman at the 爆料TV have recently published a paper entitled 鈥極pen Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection鈥 in聽Data Science Journal.聽
William Mager (centre) in signed conversation with members of the 鈥楻eunion鈥 cast and crew.
William Mager (centre) in signed conversation with members of the 鈥楻eunion鈥 cast and crew, including lead Matthew Gurney (left), BSL Coach and Monitor Duffy (second right) and BSL Interpreter Kat Wright (right). Credit: BBC / Warp Films

鈥淚t can almost feel like a lucky dip鈥: bringing film and TV subtitles up to standard

Blog: Dr Ryan Bramley spoke to William Mager - a producer, director, and scriptwriter for a new 爆料TV film, 鈥'How can we improve subtitles鈥.
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Image: a sunny street outside Battersea Arts Centre, London

Disability Arts Practice as Methodology: a research visit to London

Dr Cassie Kill
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Blog: Why SDH (Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of Hearing) should be the standard

Dr Ryan Bramley sat down with Sophie Muller, Head of聽Voicebox, for a new film, 鈥楬ow can we improve subtitles鈥. Ahead of our launch later this year, we have published Sophie鈥檚 longer-form interview as a blog.

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Storying disability: Wrecking disability

On 27 June 2018, iHuman hosted a symposium in which key international academics grappling with the relationships between disability and narrative.

A building in Sheffield: Scotia Works

Rewriting sex education

On Thursday 21 June, Dr Kirsty Liddiard, from the School of Education and iHuman, was invited to participate in the Sheffield Sexual Health Network鈥檚 new Sex and Relationship Education Task Group at Scotiaworks.

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Engaging with Parliament

On 15 June 2018, Dr Kirsty Liddiard and Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole went to the Buckley Innovation Centre, Huddersfield University, to participate in a workshop entitled 鈥楻esearch, Impact and the UK Parliament.'
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European Children's Rights Unit

On 13 June, Dr Kirsty Liddiard, from the School of Education and Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman) was invited to speak to the European Children鈥檚 Rights Unit at the Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool.
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Antonios Ktenidis' secondment to Melbourne

Antonios Ktenidis has recently been on a two-month (February-March 2018) secondment to Melbourne for the Makey project, looking into how accessible makerspaces are to disabled students.