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Dr Poppy Budworth
@poppybudworth.bsky.social
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Social researcher interested in disability, youth, belonging, and everyday life 📖 coffee and cat lover 🐈‍⬛ all views my own ☕️
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poppybudworth.bsky.social
A wonderful launch of @thelrm.bsky.social’s book, Feminist Art of Walking 🌙💜

An evening of reflection, solidarity & everyday activism - a reminder that walking is art, resistance, and care all at the same time.

Feeling inspired to slow down & ‘amble’ 🌃🚶🏻‍♀️

📖 pictured below #Crip #Walking #Geography
A book titled “The Feminist Art of Walking” by Morag Rose rests on someone’s denim-clad lap. A round badge pinned to the book reads “Amble.” The book cover features a soft, pastel-toned landscape with reflections of trees and buildings.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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gredawarha.bsky.social
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poppybudworth.bsky.social Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · Aug 28
🌟 Excited to share two new digital toolkits for people with an ileostomy or colostomy! 🌟

Created with GetYourBellyOut and digital artist Lucy Harman, based on my PhD research about young people’s experiences of living with an ostomy.
October 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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laurajpottinger.bsky.social
More stitched squares shared by remote participants in our #StitchAssemblyRGS25 session at #RGS-IBG conference last month. Big thank you to all who took part & shared their reflections!
@poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social
Two overlapping stitched squares. The bottom has dark grey and yellow small shapes stitched onto a salmon pink background, and the top features an embroidered raised fist with the text AC2025 RGS Black Teacher. A small yellow flower sits alongside the stitched piece.
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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mobileworlds.bsky.social
Huge thanks to the #StitchAssemblyRGS25, this was so inspiring! Some short keywords this piece embodies:
#unfinished
#together
#outofthebox
#(un)directionality
#heartening
#multiplepaths

I look forward to seeing the joined quilt!❤️Hoping to reflect a bit of this spirit in the MobileWorlds Festival
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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tillyrobinsonmiles.bsky.social
My output inspired by what I believe the vision & values of my work in creating a #GoodFoodNation to 'build a long table not a higher wall'

A table with people connecting and eating around it together. A space of equity.
August 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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tillyrobinsonmiles.bsky.social
@rgsibg.bsky.social #RGSStitchAssembly

Loving the creativity theme of this years conference.

Encouraging us all to pause, reflect & challenge ourselves.
August 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
poppybudworth.bsky.social
🌟 Excited to share two new digital toolkits for people with an ileostomy or colostomy! 🌟

Created with GetYourBellyOut and digital artist Lucy Harman, based on my PhD research about young people’s experiences of living with an ostomy.
August 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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drkcarrutherst.bsky.social
Not a natural stitcher but loved participating in #StitchAssemblyRGS25 this morning!
August 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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mobileworlds.bsky.social
Just getting started on my stitched contribution to RGS 2025. Is this another way of connecting #arts and #research, #PhysicalMobility and #DigitalMibility? Thank you for this beautiful initiative! #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡

#mobileworlds #thirdcultures
August 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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tillyrobinsonmiles.bsky.social
#StitchAssemblyRGS25 ❤️
August 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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julietjfall.bsky.social
Creative stitching workshop at the RGS. Geography meets craft in a fabulous moment of sharing time & space. #StitchAssemblyRGS25
What our table produced in an hour: five little stitched squares Little map-style stitched square
August 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
poppybudworth.bsky.social
✨ The Stitch Assembly is live at #RGSIBG2025 in Birmingham!

Whether you’re here in person or joining from afar, we want you to feel part of our creative community.

Find your moment to stitch & share! #StitchAssemblyRGS25 💫

🧵 A few snapshots so far 👇
Birmingham campus tower in the sun. No people are around and the green trees and plants look peaceful. Hands reaching for differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table, holding scissors. Hands holding differently dyed and shaped material which are scattered across a white table. There is also some thread and a needle on the table, and a small pair of scissors.
August 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
poppybudworth.bsky.social
📢 The in-person Stitch Assembly is happening today at 11:10am (BST). I can’t wait to see some of you there 🎉 #RGSIBG2025 #StitchAssemblyRGS25 🧵🪡
poppybudworth.bsky.social Dr Poppy Budworth @poppybudworth.bsky.social · Aug 27
✨ Looking forward to the #RGSIBG2025!

Join us for the Stitch Assembly 🧵
⏰ Thursday, 11:10 - 12:50 (BST)
📍 Muirhead Building, Room 109

A creative space to stitch, reflect & connect - in Birmingham and beyond! 💫 #Creativity #StitchAssemblyRGS25
August 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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laurajpottinger.bsky.social
Prepping materials 🧵🏵️🧶for Stitch Assembly at #RGS-IBG

Follow #StitchAssemblyRGS25 for updates, reflections & stitched quilt squares from remote participants & our in-person session.

If you’re in Birmingham we’d love to see you there!
@poppybudworth.bsky.social @alisonjeffers.bsky.social
scraps of fabric and threads in a variety of colours
August 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
poppybudworth.bsky.social
✨ Looking forward to the #RGSIBG2025!

Join us for the Stitch Assembly 🧵
⏰ Thursday, 11:10 - 12:50 (BST)
📍 Muirhead Building, Room 109

A creative space to stitch, reflect & connect - in Birmingham and beyond! 💫 #Creativity #StitchAssemblyRGS25
August 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
poppybudworth.bsky.social
PhD ✅
A white woman with long brown hair in a maroon and purple PhD graduation gown with gold trim stands on a lawn in front of a historic stone building covered in green ivy. She is smiling slightly, wearing a black doctoral cap with a gold tassel, and posing with her hands clasped. The setting is bright and celebratory.
July 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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laurajpottinger.bsky.social
Are you heading to #RGS-IBG AC2025 as an online-only delegate? We’re organising a hands-on creative workshop for you! Sign up to Stitch Assembly & we’ll post you a pack 👇😊🧵
docs.google.com/forms/d/1ytd...

@poppybudworth.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social
A selection of plant-dyed fabrics squares and scraps in different colours, and threads wound onto cardboard thread winders, arranged in a grid formation
July 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
poppybudworth.bsky.social
It is great that some of the belonging team are attending the @openuniversity.bsky.social conference together on the social history of people with learning disabilities, funded by @nihrsphr.bsky.social with @nihrsscr.bsky.social. We are looking forward to Day 2 today! ☀️
Photo of our research team. 8 of us - a mix of white men and women smiling. The man at the front is a wheelchair user and he holds a sign that says ‘we are the belonging project’
July 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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austerityalters.bsky.social
📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'
Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Call for blogs Series Three – How austerity alters disabled people’s lives and futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, and practice Do you work at the intersection of disability and austerity? Do you have lived and/or research/policy-based experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series which focuses on the ways austerity shapes and changes disabled people’s lives and futures, and we want to hear from you! If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’. If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know. We approach disability inclusively and broadly. Please see post thread for full text details.
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
poppybudworth.bsky.social
Research trip to Hove 🌊
A cup with paper straws and a cup with plastic straws. On the cup with plastic straws a sign reads ‘Please leave these Straws for those with mobility or sensory issues! Not every disability is visible’ I’m holding my flat white in front of Hove beach and the sea. It’s sunny today! I’m wearing a green cardi and you can see my sleeve
March 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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drbevans.bsky.social
Really excited to be collaborating with @dadafest.bsky.social Join this online round table with 5 brilliant artists on March 17th: using creative workshops to imagine better futures of care with & for people with energy limiting conditions @livuninews.bsky.social www.dadafest.co.uk/event/ignite...
Pictures of 5 artists: Khizra Ahmed, Julian Gray, Mish Green, Louise Kenward and Khairani Barokka. Text reads Ignite: Using Creative Workshops to Imagine Better Futures of Care For and With People with Energy Limiting Conditions. Dada International Festival. Online. Free.
March 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
“We’re losing decades of our life to this illness.”

An important read by @kathryn42.bsky.social on Long Covid: 5 Years On. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten
Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic neve...
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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smhall.bsky.social
Does Geography have a (working) class problem?

If you don't already know the answer, this should help;
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.
A taste for deprivation? Fish, chips and leaving the European Union
This paper explores the relationship between food culture and political behaviour through the lens of the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the E…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
poppybudworth.bsky.social
I really enjoyed the discussion we had at this ‘cuppa conundrums’ event hosted by the ‘re-imagining research practices’ team @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Photograph of welcome slide for the event which reads: ‘Cuppa Conundrums Public Participation and Citizen Science Research’
February 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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learningdiseng.bsky.social
It's important everyone over 14 on their doctor's learning disability register has an annual health check.

They can help you stay well and find any problems early.

If you haven't been offered one you can ask your doctors practice if you can have one.
February 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM