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Nikita Hayden
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Postdoc researcher | learning disability and autism | neurodivergent | she/they | a little Freudian monkey |
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The Research Spotlight for August shines on work by @samanthaflynn.bsky.social , @nikitahayden.bsky.social , @nikmanktelow.bsky.social and team.

Using digital Talking Mats they gathered the views of children using an online reading intervention.
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August 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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siblingstudies.bsky.social
Last chance to sign up to this event tomorrow – looking forward to seeing everyone there!
siblingstudies.bsky.social Sibling Studies Network @siblingstudies.bsky.social · May 29
Please do join our online event next on 25th June: 'Siblings, Disability and Care: Anthropological and Co-Created Perspectives'. With @pblock8.bsky.social Helen Ries Dima Kassem @nikitahayden.bsky.social @tomjryan99.bsky.social
Programme here: tinyurl.com/mr2ejrt7
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/mra86v38
Flyer for an event as follows: Siblings, Disability and Care: Anthropological and Co-Created Perspectives. Co-Creation During Times of Transition. This online event builds an understanding of the impact of major life transitions on sibling relationships – particularly the emotional, social and caregiving dynamics involved. We will look at mutual care relationships as a form of access intimacy, activist affordances, and worldmaking between disabled and non-disabled siblings. We will discuss possible directions for future research as well as recommendations for service providers, decision makers, parents and others to contribute to building sustainable, inclusive support systems and better overall outcomes. This project is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The event is on Wednesday 25th June 2025 at 6-7.30pm BST and 1-2.30. Email n.hayden@sheffield.ac.uk for information on signing up.
June 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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siblingstudies.bsky.social
Please do join our online event next on 25th June: 'Siblings, Disability and Care: Anthropological and Co-Created Perspectives'. With @pblock8.bsky.social Helen Ries Dima Kassem @nikitahayden.bsky.social @tomjryan99.bsky.social
Programme here: tinyurl.com/mr2ejrt7
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/mra86v38
Flyer for an event as follows: Siblings, Disability and Care: Anthropological and Co-Created Perspectives. Co-Creation During Times of Transition. This online event builds an understanding of the impact of major life transitions on sibling relationships – particularly the emotional, social and caregiving dynamics involved. We will look at mutual care relationships as a form of access intimacy, activist affordances, and worldmaking between disabled and non-disabled siblings. We will discuss possible directions for future research as well as recommendations for service providers, decision makers, parents and others to contribute to building sustainable, inclusive support systems and better overall outcomes. This project is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The event is on Wednesday 25th June 2025 at 6-7.30pm BST and 1-2.30. Email n.hayden@sheffield.ac.uk for information on signing up.
May 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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We’ve just published a paper in Tizard Learning Disability Review about engaging children with developmental disabilities in online data collection procedures: www.emerald.com/insight/cont... @nikitahayden.bsky.social @nikmanktelow.bsky.social
Engaging children with developmental disabilities in online data collection procedures: reflections and implications for future research | Emerald Insight
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May 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Our next Sibling Studies Network colloquium is this Thursday, kicking off at 2pm GMT. We have an exciting lineup of talks from across the humanities and the social sciences (see images for agenda). Tickets here www.tickettailor.com/events/sibli...
Programme: 2pm-2.10pm – Introduction, welcome. 2.10pm-3.10pm – Session 1: Relational Dynamics. - Aersheng Haidabieke, Fudan University, China. The associations between sibling bullying and peer bullying among adolescents: The moderating role of gender - Derek Morgan, University of Missouri, U.S.A. Sibling Problem Solving as a Mediator of Emerging Adult and Adolescent Sibling Closeness and Later Social Motivations - Mel Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. ‘We were in the same boat and now we’re not’: sibling relationships and inherited variants of dementia 3.10pm-3.20pm – Break. 3.20pm-4.20pm – Session 2: Hidden, Missing and Absent. - What Impact can a School Have on Siblings of Children with SEND and why is this Important? Emma Bennett, Joshua Garrett-Smith and Lynne Wainwright - Willow Dene School, The Compass Partnership of Schools and Kings College London University, U.K. -A Psychologist, a Sociologist and a Poet Walk into a Café: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care-Experienced Young People’s Views of their Sibling Data Katie Cebula, Christina McMellon , Thomas Bartlett, Craig Houston, and Kate Richardson - University of Edinburgh, Performance Poet and Stand Up for Siblings, U.K. -Speaking the unspeakable. On grief and sibling suicide. Laura Towers, University of Manchester, U.K. 4.20pm-4.30pm – Break. 4,30pm-5.30pm – Session 3: Stories & Narratives. -Siblinghood and Learning Disability: The Role of Normative Expectations in Sibling Narratives Tom Ryan, University of Sheffield, U.K -‘Go to the Moon’: Re-Enacting and Re-Inscribing Neurodiverse Sibling Relationships in The Glass Menagerie and Other Plays Emma Ettinger, University of Glasgow, U.K. -Family Resilience in Sibling Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Mother-Child Dyads in China Xiwen Fu and Yining Shi, University of Cambridge, U.K. 5.30pm-5.40pm – Discussion period. 5.50pm-6.00pm – Closing remarks. Programme: 2pm-2.10pm – Introduction, welcome. 2.10pm-3.10pm – Session 1: Relational Dynamics. - Aersheng Haidabieke, Fudan University, China. The associations between sibling bullying and peer bullying among adolescents: The moderating role of gender - Derek Morgan, University of Missouri, U.S.A. Sibling Problem Solving as a Mediator of Emerging Adult and Adolescent Sibling Closeness and Later Social Motivations - Mel Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. ‘We were in the same boat and now we’re not’: sibling relationships and inherited variants of dementia 3.10pm-3.20pm – Break. 3.20pm-4.20pm – Session 2: Hidden, Missing and Absent. - What Impact can a School Have on Siblings of Children with SEND and why is this Important? Emma Bennett, Joshua Garrett-Smith and Lynne Wainwright - Willow Dene School, The Compass Partnership of Schools and Kings College London University, U.K. -A Psychologist, a Sociologist and a Poet Walk into a Café: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care-Experienced Young People’s Views of their Sibling Data Katie Cebula, Christina McMellon , Thomas Bartlett, Craig Houston, and Kate Richardson - University of Edinburgh, Performance Poet and Stand Up for Siblings, U.K. -Speaking the unspeakable. On grief and sibling suicide. Laura Towers, University of Manchester, U.K. 4.20pm-4.30pm – Break. 4,30pm-5.30pm – Session 3: Stories & Narratives. -Siblinghood and Learning Disability: The Role of Normative Expectations in Sibling Narratives Tom Ryan, University of Sheffield, U.K -‘Go to the Moon’: Re-Enacting and Re-Inscribing Neurodiverse Sibling Relationships in The Glass Menagerie and Other Plays Emma Ettinger, University of Glasgow, U.K. -Family Resilience in Sibling Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Mother-Child Dyads in China Xiwen Fu and Yining Shi, University of Cambridge, U.K. 5.30pm-5.40pm – Discussion period. 5.50pm-6.00pm – Closing remarks. Programme: 2pm-2.10pm – Introduction, welcome. 2.10pm-3.10pm – Session 1: Relational Dynamics. - Aersheng Haidabieke, Fudan University, China. The associations between sibling bullying and peer bullying among adolescents: The moderating role of gender - Derek Morgan, University of Missouri, U.S.A. Sibling Problem Solving as a Mediator of Emerging Adult and Adolescent Sibling Closeness and Later Social Motivations - Mel Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. ‘We were in the same boat and now we’re not’: sibling relationships and inherited variants of dementia 3.10pm-3.20pm – Break. 3.20pm-4.20pm – Session 2: Hidden, Missing and Absent. - What Impact can a School Have on Siblings of Children with SEND and why is this Important? Emma Bennett, Joshua Garrett-Smith and Lynne Wainwright - Willow Dene School, The Compass Partnership of Schools and Kings College London University, U.K. -A Psychologist, a Sociologist and a Poet Walk into a Café: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care-Experienced Young People’s Views of their Sibling Data Katie Cebula, Christina McMellon , Thomas Bartlett, Craig Houston, and Kate Richardson - University of Edinburgh, Performance Poet and Stand Up for Siblings, U.K. -Speaking the unspeakable. On grief and sibling suicide. Laura Towers, University of Manchester, U.K. 4.20pm-4.30pm – Break. 4,30pm-5.30pm – Session 3: Stories & Narratives. -Siblinghood and Learning Disability: The Role of Normative Expectations in Sibling Narratives Tom Ryan, University of Sheffield, U.K -‘Go to the Moon’: Re-Enacting and Re-Inscribing Neurodiverse Sibling Relationships in The Glass Menagerie and Other Plays Emma Ettinger, University of Glasgow, U.K. -Family Resilience in Sibling Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Mother-Child Dyads in China Xiwen Fu and Yining Shi, University of Cambridge, U.K. 5.30pm-5.40pm – Discussion period. 5.50pm-6.00pm – Closing remarks.
January 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Our Talking Mats paper, published earlier this year, is currently free to access. Download it here –
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December 9, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Congrats to all involved in a book that seems to do something different. Not only as it's so collaborative but because it looks at issues starved of airtime, like supporting autistic people's siblings. And makes a distinction between autism and mental health; #autism isn't a #mentalhealth problem.
nikitahayden.bsky.social Nikita Hayden @nikitahayden.bsky.social · Nov 26
Lovely to have received a copy of this terrific book. It was great to contribute a chapter with Clare from @sibs-uk.bsky.social. Thanks to the editors @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social Russell Hurn and Damian Milton
The cover of the following book: Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People Promoting Self-agency, Curiosity and Collaboration A photo of a book’s contents page showing a chapter entitled ‘Working with siblings of autistic CYP’
November 27, 2024 at 10:10 AM
nikitahayden.bsky.social
Lovely to have received a copy of this terrific book. It was great to contribute a chapter with Clare from @sibs-uk.bsky.social. Thanks to the editors @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social Russell Hurn and Damian Milton
The cover of the following book: Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People Promoting Self-agency, Curiosity and Collaboration A photo of a book’s contents page showing a chapter entitled ‘Working with siblings of autistic CYP’
November 26, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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sabasalman.com
'Sibling relationships are, in most cases, the longest relationship people will have in their lives'.

For anyone keen on a whole family approach to care, on groups overlooked in research and how a sibling/family carer experience shapes us (positively and negatively).

#LearningDisability #siblings
November 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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An important change of focus in research with family members. IMO as suggested family outcomes are mediated by service and social barriers, not the individual characteristics of the family member with ID
November 16, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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New paper🚨 “I Would Not Change [My] Sibling for the World, Maybe the World Can Change for My Sibling”: The Experiences of Adult Siblings of People With Developmental Disabilities. Authors - Liz Moran-Morbey, Chloe Blackwell, Tom Ryan, and myself onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
“I Would Not Change [My] Sibling for the World, Maybe the World Can Change for My Sibling”: The Experiences of Adult Siblings of People With Developmental Disabilities
The sibling relationship is complex, unique and important. When one sibling has a developmental disability, siblings can be important sources of care, support, advocacy and friendship for one another...
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November 16, 2024 at 12:34 PM