Kirsty Liddiard
@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
Sociologist and Senior Research Fellow researching breath, ventilation, disability and health. All views my own.
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From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
Archives, manuscripts and material culture in health and wellbeing research | Reports | Wellcome
Archives, manuscripts and material culture collections hold profound potential for advancing knowledge about life, health and wellbeing. This report examines how these collections are currently used i...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
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...
Staff at University of Sheffield begin strike action
Staff at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University are taking part in strikes.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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.
Solidarity.
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
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We absolutely cannot accept this! We need to stand together and support in every way we can!
Solidarity.
Solidarity.
@sheffielducu.bsky.social Do the University’s financial reports support the need to make job cuts? #DigitalPicket #Sheffield
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https://ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/state-of-the-university-2024-25/financial-position-cuts/
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November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
@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.
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.
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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.
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.
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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.
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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...
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.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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...
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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.
JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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.
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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.
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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.
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Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
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.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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
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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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September 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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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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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Check it out! 👍
@drsuzanneglover.bsky.social @pathfindersnma.bsky.social @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
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Blog post #14 SMA Awareness Month: Personal reflections on mouthpiece ventilation
By Dr Suzanne Glover, Lead Community Researcher and Research Associate
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August 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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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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 👍
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."
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"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."
sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
Blog post #13 Living with Rare Disease with Respiratory Involvement
By Amanda Jones, Community Researcher
sheffield.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
If you have some time today, have a read of this beautiful blog post 👍
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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
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
My Life with Ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders Event
An information evening exploring ventilation and respiration among people with muscle-weakening conditions.
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July 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Come and join our next public event 🙌🏽
My life with ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders event
#Online #BSL
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-life-wi...
@pathfindersnma.bsky.social @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social @respfutures.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk
My life with ventilation: a Cripping Breath and Pathfinders event
#Online #BSL
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-life-wi...
@pathfindersnma.bsky.social @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social @respfutures.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk
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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Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies
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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...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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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Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies
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So proud to be affiliated with this great journal - new issue available here! 🙌🏽
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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...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
So proud to be affiliated with this great journal - new issue available here! 🙌🏽
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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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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.
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June 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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Julia Lawrence, IPSA project www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/brows...
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About ISPA - ISPA - Inclusive Design - Design - Topics - Resources - Housing LIN
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June 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"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...
@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
Julia Lawrence, IPSA project www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/brows...
@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
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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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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.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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'?
thepolyphony.org/2025/06/23/c...
thepolyphony.org/2025/06/23/c...
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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...
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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
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June 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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...
www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.ph...
Fantastic post within a fantastic project - take a look! 🥳
What a life enriching opportunity to work with the Multispecies Mutualisms project team. Please consider applying or sharing the word!
🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕🦺 🐄🐎🐦⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
June 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Fantastic post within a fantastic project - take a look! 🥳
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June 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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June 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I have a paper in this co-authored by the excellent Ned Coleman-Fountain, David Abbott & Alex Toft. It’s a piece of work I’m really proud of. It gets at some nuanced complexities of gender &sexuality in PA. Great to see it out with all its paper pals in this special issue. Excited to read the others
Very proud to share this special issue of Feminism and Psychology, co-edited with Rebecca Lawthom
** Disability as a feminist issue **
It includes papers on trauma, affect, sexism, psycho-emotional disablism, care, contesting psy, sexuality & more!
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** Disability as a feminist issue **
It includes papers on trauma, affect, sexism, psycho-emotional disablism, care, contesting psy, sexuality & more!
journals.sagepub.com/toc/FAP/curr...
Feminism & Psychology - Volume 35, Number 2
Table of contents for Feminism & Psychology, 35, 2
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June 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I have a paper in this co-authored by the excellent Ned Coleman-Fountain, David Abbott & Alex Toft. It’s a piece of work I’m really proud of. It gets at some nuanced complexities of gender &sexuality in PA. Great to see it out with all its paper pals in this special issue. Excited to read the others