Bridget Shaffrey

Image of sand timer: Text reads: The Time We See: ADHD, Neuroqueer Temporality, and Graphic Medicine "It is crucial to recognize that time perception is not universal but varies across neurotypes, suggesting a broader and more inclusive view of temporal experiences. Inspired by Halberstam's similar assertion in context of queer time, the tendency to elevate neurotypical experiences to a universal standard while reducing neurodivergent experiences to mere individual anomalies can only be undone by engaging with the counterlogics that emerge from the diverse realities of our existence" Tolani P, Venkatesan S. The Time We See: ADHD, Neuroqueer Temporality, and Graphic Medicine. Perspect Biol Med. 2025;68 (1):117-138. PMID: 40059708.

Quote from the fabulous paper: Tolani P, Venkatesan S. The Time We See: ADHD, Neuroqueer Temporality, and Graphic Medicine. Perspect Biol Med. 2025;68(1):117-138. PMID: 40059708.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40059708/

New book review -- Rama Ali Kased and Tony Marks-Block read Wasim Said's "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza" antipodeonline.org/category/boo...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Zinaïda Sluijs (2026) entitled: 'More Than a Course, More Than a Method: Study Circles as a Pedagogical and Research Method Working With Asylum Seekers Across Language Barriers and Differences' with a black banner at the top. Participatory research with people in the asylum process faces limits and challenges. Building on ethnographic research on study circles for and with asylum seekers in Sweden, I discuss two methods (collage workshops and card-based discussions) which were introduced to deal with the challenges of conducting participatory research and to foster the inclusion of participants in the asylum process. While collage workshops allowed for conversations on emotional and embodied experiences across language barriers, card-based discussions created space for dialogue and discussion on different experiences of participating in study circles. I argue that these methods were both inspired by the study circle method and participatory methodologies and, therefore, are an example of how research' epistemology and methodology can be aligned to participating organisations' knowledge and practices. Consequently, the contribution of the paper is two-fold: Collage workshops and card-based discussions not only allowed for new participants and perspectives to be included but also enabled the research to intervene in and contribute to the study circle practice.

New in Area:

'More than a course, more than a method: Study circles as a pedagogical and research method working with asylum seekers across language barriers and differences' by @zsluijs.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Screenshot of email that reads: “This status will remain in place until the University receives notification that you are no longer participating in that action. During this period, any work undertaken will be regarded as voluntary.”

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Sign the Petition Save Geography at the University of Leicester

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share

www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

What does academic writing about resistance do, now? Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.

Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW.

(Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Through the accounts of workers furloughed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the paper details how the loss of a worker's agency through the suspension of their work life led them to feel...

What does it feel like to be paid not to work?

In a new paper I discuss the experiences of furloughed workers I interviewed from across the UK. My study revealed that, for some, furlough became a disorientating experience.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@rgsibg.bsky.social

Spoke at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov’s 2025 Science Seminar on how place-based solidarities drive equitable growth in left-behind places last Friday. Really
great discussing community-led change with other academics and policy makers!

Proud to have contributed to evidence to the publication of the House of Lords Report, ‘High Streets: Life Beyond Retail’: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

My evidence highlighted the contentious dynamics around high street re-development made by multiple political actors!