Kirsty Liddiard

Such a brilliant viva 🙌 Congratulations! X

Cover of PhD thesis University of Birmingham logo The Politics of Parking: Disabled People Experiences of Everyday Oppression through Encounters with Strangers in Accessible Parking Spaces By Vera Kubenz

Vera, a white woman with short brown hair standing in front of a door pointing at her t-shirt. The blue t-shirt has bold white text saying "I'm only on it for the parking" above a wheelchair stick figure throwing its arms up in delight

I'm excited to announce I have just passed my PhD viva with no corrections!
So pleased that 4 1/2 years' work has paid off and thank you to my lovely examiners @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
and @leahfburch.bsky.social and Chair Jennifer Allsop for a great discussion.

So dismayed by the lack of resolution - industrial action at UoS continues 🥹 #DigitalPicket @ucu.org.uk As a researcher, striking for me is about mitigating the endless restructuring of, & redundancies for, our excellent professional services colleagues, whose labour makes our research possible 💪🏽

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Staff at University of Sheffield begin strike action Staff at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University are taking part in strikes.

Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active #DigitalPicket too @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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We absolutely cannot accept this! We need to stand together and support in every way we can!

Solidarity.

@sheffielducu.bsky.social Do the University’s financial reports support the need to make job cuts? #DigitalPicket #Sheffield

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We hope that this strong mandate encourages Management to make an offer that will avert the need to take strike action.

Meanwhile, members will meet on Thursday to discuss how to use this mandate most effectively to protect jobs & fight back against worsening of our workloads & working conditions.

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.

Getting ready for the #picket line! And I won't miss our rally with @sheffielducu.bsky.social & @ucuhallam.bsky.social (12.30 Barkers Pool). All that we ask is to get on with our work without being subjected to continuous harassment. @ucu.org.uk #ucustrike #Sheffield www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Tomorrow @sheffielducu.bsky.social begins four weeks of strike action over the continuous restructuring of programs and departments and threats of compulsory redundancies imposed by university management. We are holding a joint rally with our sister branch at SHU which is facing similar threats.

Tomorrow I’m back on strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social over the university’s refusal to rule out redundancies and stop the neverending cycle of unjustified restructures. East Asian studies remains under explicit threat of job cuts, but I’d be there even if we weren’t. We stand together.

Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.

Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket

As part of our Special Issue, I wrote my first article engaging with Disability Studies & crip theory (eek) and discovered the brilliant work of @sunaura.bsky.social, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril & @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social, among others. I couldn’t recommend their work more!
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Wow this looks brilliant! It’s gone to the top of my reading-to-do list! 🙌

Important new blog post: SMA Awareness Month: Personal reflections on mouthpiece ventilation

Check it out! 👍

@drsuzanneglover.bsky.social @pathfindersnma.bsky.social @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social

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If you have some time today, have a read of this beautiful blog post 👍

My Life with Ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders Event An information evening exploring ventilation and respiration among people with muscle-weakening conditions.

Come and join our next public event 🙌🏽

My life with ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders event

#Online #BSL

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@pathfindersnma.bsky.social @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social @respfutures.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

Thank you so much! X

Frontiers | Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies IntroductionOur contributions within this article emerge from our experiences of co-leading a new Wellcome Discovery Award funded project, Cripping Breath: T...

Thrilled for this article to be out - open access, so take a look! @crippingbreath.bsky.social

Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies

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International Journal of Disability and Social Justice <p>The <em>International Journal of Disability and Social Justice</em> is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Pluto Journals that contributes to the field of interdisciplinary Disability St...

So proud to be affiliated with this great journal - new issue available here! 🙌🏽

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Heatwave Tips and Advice Here is some advice and tips about coping during a heatwave. This advice has been written specifically for disabled people, but will work for everyone.

As the weather heats up again this weekend, BuDS urges everyone to take precautions and look after themselves and their loved ones.

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"In co-produced research building in access to welfare advice is essential because that allows equal access to participation"

Julia Lawrence, IPSA project www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/brows...

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Welcome to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference Takeover What is ‘critical neurodiversity studies’? Louise Creechan introduces the conference aiming to answer this question, and its Polyphony takeover.

Welcome to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference's takeover of the Polyphony site, from today until Tuesday next week. Here co-organiser @louisecreechan.bsky.social kicks us off by asking: 'What is critical neurodiversity studies'?

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NCRM News | Revisiting access and inclusion in research methods As a part of the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Cultures (WAARC) project at the University of Sheffield, we have been exploring ways of making research more inclusive and accessible, and considering

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.

www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.ph...

Fantastic post within a fantastic project - take a look! 🥳

@fempsych.bsky.social

Alt text: Promotional graphic for a special issue of Feminism & Psychology. Text reads: “Special Issue Alert. Disability as a Feminist Issue. Vol 35 Issue 2. Guest edited by Kirsty Liddiard + Rebecca Lawthom.” The Feminism & Psychology logo appears at the bottom. On the right, there is an image of a keyboard with three purple keys featuring accessibility icons: a person using a wheelchair, an ear with sound waves, and a person using a white cane. The keyboard is in warm orange and purple tones.

Check it out! journals.sagepub.com/toc/FAP/curr...