Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Dr Ben Archer @benjaminarcher96.bsky.social Lecturer and early-career researcher | Views own | he/him 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/drbenarcher
Hương Ngô @huongngo.bsky.social Artist, educator, parent, refugee.
www.huongngo.com
Now: O'Hare Airport, MCA-Santa Barbara Satellite, Smith College
Next: Asian Cultural Council, Engage Projects
Paula Albuquerque @paalbuquerque.bsky.social Artist and researcher working on film archives, decoloniality and surveillance.
Jennifer Vanderpool @jennifervanderpool.bsky.social Artist // Curator // Writer
2024-25 British Academy Leverhulme Trust
2023-24 Artist Fellow, DePOT Canada SSHRC
2021-22 US-UK Fulbright Artist Fellow
jennifervanderpool.com
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54880-2?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEA
Katrine Risbank-Jensen @risbank-jensen.bsky.social Social Educator, Anthropologist and PhD Student at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.
ESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social ESRC Research Centre addressing pressures and inequities in how people experience social care.
Visit our website and sign up to our newsletter: https://centreforcare.ac.uk/
ForThe100 @forthe100.bsky.social Campaigning ForThe100 ~ Higher education providers owe a duty of care to their students. It’s that simple. We want students safety to be a legal must. 💛
🌐 https://www.forthe100.org.uk/
ForThe100 Mailing List: https://bit.ly/3Q3GD9g
Centre for Research in Inclusion @cri-uos.bsky.social Centre for Research in Inclusion (CRI) at the University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Co-directors @vstrogilos.bsky.social & @achalagupta.bsky.social
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/centre-for-research-in-inclusion
Sheffield BID @sheffieldbid.bsky.social We're a not-for-profit business group working to support a cleaner, safer and more vibrant city centre. In 2025 we're celebrating 10 years of the BID!
Esbjörn Wettermark @esbwet.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, musician, educator
Amy Redhead @dr-red-84.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy ~ University of Leeds
Research interests include: disability studies, disability rights, disability representation, disability culture, participatory research
Sunday Blake @sundayblake.bsky.social Slow learner, quick wit
Born again (and then again)✝️
Matthew 21:31 ⛅
Chronically offline (twitter detox mode)
Recovering think tank wanker 💨
Belonging and mattering in HE 📚
Living in answered prayers 🙏🏼🪽
The 1752 Group @the1752group.bsky.social We're a campaign and research group dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in UK higher education.
www.1752group.com
Kristin Snoddon (she/her) @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social Applied sign language linguistics, sign language ideologies, critical ethnography. Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University; student of Caribbean studies.
Hsiao-fang CHANG @feliciachang29.bsky.social PhD Diary🧣
Suzanne Glover @drsuzanneglover.bsky.social Research Manager at Pathfinders Neuromuscular Alliance, Research Associate/lead community researcher on Cripping Breath – University of Sheffield
Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Academic. Poet. Creative sociologist. Queer non-binary trans man. Spoonie. Gentletran & a scholar. Also part of the Queer Disability Studies Network snails. 🐌🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@medmentalhealth.bsky.social @medmentalhealth.bsky.social Co-produced research project about mental health medications in the lives of people with learning disabilities. Project Lead: @suecaton.bsky.social Funded by NIHR research Sponsor: LSCFT
Delbert Whetter @delwhetter.bsky.social Multigenerational Deaf filmmaker, producer, business owner, consultant, board member and advocate for disability inclusion in Hollywood and everywhere else. 🤟Producer of feature-length animation, documentaries, and live-action narrative films. #GoDucks !
Hugo Ferrinho Lopes @hferrinholopes.bsky.social FLAD Visiting Professor at the Department of Government at Georgetown University.
🔗 https://hugoferrinholopes.github.io/
Michael Martin @mic-martin.bsky.social Lecturer & Programme Director of Urban Design & Planning, University of Sheffield working in #urbandesign #childfriendlycities #urbanplay 🇮🇪 co-author of ‘Applied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach’, Routledge Books https://amzn.eu/d/i4dPGoH
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @drerinpritchard.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. Core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies. Activist for people with dwarfism
Bojana Daw Srdanović @bdawsrdanovic.bsky.social
Harriet Axbey @draxbey.bsky.social Author, researcher, neurospicy DnD player. She/her 🏳️🌈
Dan Goodley @dangoodley.bsky.social Dad, activist, politics, sewist, music and NFFC obsessive
Disability Matters @dismatters.bsky.social A six year international programme of disability, health and science. Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disability-matters
Clelia Petracca @cpetracca.bsky.social Commissioning Editor in Disability Studies and Creativity Studies at Palgrave Macmillan (clelia.petracca@palgrave.com).
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Ellena D @eld208.bsky.social PhD at the University of Exeter on conjoined twins in literature and film. Disability studies, embodiment.
Currently working at Medify.
Chronically ill. Enjoys poetry, film photography and crafting. Nerd. Views own.
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Dr Bryony Vince-Myers @bryvincemyers.bsky.social Research Associate - Participatory Research Network
Project Coordinator - @coprofutures.bsky.social
Editor-at-large - E-IR
Global Dialogues Book Series Co-editor
IR, local peacebuilding, decoloniality, participatory research, South Africa
Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon FREng PFHEA (she/her) @erfmon72.bsky.social Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Study Group, President International Advisory Board UANL, Chair EDT and Industrial Cadets #engineer #educator #weareinternational 🌈 views my own
Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social open research / open access / academic publishing / unions / queer stuff / parenting / usually found in and around Sheffield (she/they)
Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social Māmā, gardener, scholar-activist, kairangahau, scientist, writer | Indigenous, Māori, Te Aitanga a Māhaki | Nōku anake ēnei whakaaro
House of Lords @houseoflords.parliament.uk News & information from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. Produced by its staff to show how the Lords checks and challenges the UK government.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/
House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Where elected MPs represent the public, legislate, and scrutinise the Government. Find out more about their work and how Parliament happens.
Deaf Unity @deafunity.bsky.social The charity preparing deaf people for success
https://m.mtrbio.com/deaf-unity
Andrew Jordan @andrew143paz.bsky.social Family man, passionate about the rights of others, BSL user & lover, Dog daddy, loves a laugh! Co-facilitator of Healthy Deaf Minds London.
Jessica @jessicab-e.bsky.social Researcher | Evaluator w/ Sheffield Hallam. ESRC PhD. Interests in HE inequalities, WP policy agenda, critical education policy analysis, narrative & feminist research into education experiences of working-class young women & girls #Sociology #Youthstudies
Hannah Glover @hannah-glover.bsky.social PhD student in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh researching post-school transitions and career aspirations in Scotland using quantitative methods and the Growing Up in Scotland study.
Dave Holloway @davemedlo.bsky.social Co-director of Spirit of Independence Film Festival. Filmmaker, editor, producer. I used to make all kinds of weird stuff. VHS changed my life. Twice.
www.soifilmfestival.com
www.davemedlo.com
Mosaik Education @mosaikeducation.bsky.social Supporting refugees to access university.
Only 7% of refugees access university, compared the global average enrolment rate of 42%.
https://mosaik.ngo/
https://linktr.ee/mosaikeducation
Bev Enion @bevenion.bsky.social 2nd year PhD researcher, interested in disability, sexuality, gender, creative methods, feminist media studies, content creation and online activism
Leah Burch (she/her) @leahfburch.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University.
Research interests: disability hate crime, sexual violence, creative methods
Manchester
Elizabeth Gardner @elizabethagardner.bsky.social ASL/English Interpreter and Interpreter Educator in Chicagoland and Bristol UK. Director: www.interpretingpathways.com
Alison @alisonhendry16.bsky.social Deaf🧏🏻♀️🌻 BSL user🤟🏻 Glaswegian living in Edinburgh🏴 mumma/employer to HD Gerry🐕🦺 Views are my own💬 love using emojis😝🎉 (she/her)
Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home
Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺
Chris Millora @chrismillora.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Goldsmiths University of London interested in the intellectual lives of youth & student activists in the Global South. Head of Programme, MA Social Justice in Education.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/educational-studies/staff/millora-chris/
Selina Jacques-King @selinajkbsl.bsky.social Registered BSL/English Interpreter. PhD student. Interested in all things to do with Interpreting/translation. Views my own.
JeminaNapier.bsky.social @jeminanapier.bsky.social Jemina Napier, PhD, FaCSS, FAHA, FASLI
Associate Director, @Scottish Graduate School of Social Science & Professor & Chair of Intercultural Communication @HeriotWattUni feminist, EDI, sign languages, mediated communication, research methods. Views my own
Tired of Spinning Plates? @spinplatescare.bsky.social Visit our website here: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/tired-of-spinning-plates/home
Visit our exhibition here: https://carermhspinningpla.wixsite.com/spinplatesexhibition
#Coproduction #MentalHealth #FamilyCarers #LearningDisability
El @elwarren.bsky.social Still passionate about Youth Work, social equality and beaches
Dr Rhys Archer @drrhysarcher.bsky.social #CitizenScience methods researcher 🌍| #ActuallyAutistic & 🏳️🌈 | Youth #participatoryresearch | #Co-design | #EDI advocate | #Coproduction & #co-creation methods for #sustainability & #environment
Stockholm Environment Institute at the Univeristy of York
Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social Associate Lecturer #Sociology at the University of Newcastle. I study political participation, #Protest & #Resistance. ORCID: 0000-0001-6945-5570
Cannot receive DMs due to Bsky policies re age verification in #Auspol
David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. #MoreThanNeeds
Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social A UK-wide campaign run by Disabled people, for Disabled people, run by a local charity @inclusionbarnet.bsky.social
Join a growing movement calling for a decent life for Disabled people: https://buff.ly/IZDn3T5
Dr Maulfry Worthington @maulfry.bsky.social Originator of Children's Mathematical Graphics with Elizabeth Carruthers; passionate about early childhood maths; graphicacy; pretend play; semiotics; child-centred learning. Early years academic & published author; England.
www.childrens-mathematics.net
Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social Sociologist, Aberystwyth. Critical disability studies. Overthinking trauma, bodies, pain, time, sexuality, crip rage, queer joy. Knitter, sewist, reptile herder, forever exhausted. She/her. 🏳️🌈
Compost the rich.
https://linktr.ee/dremmasheppard
British Journal of Sociology of Education @bjse.bsky.social Official account of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Content by the Executive Editors of the BJSE
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cbse20
Kat @katsimmo.bsky.social Sociologist interested in young people's experiences of education, work, and community in former mining communities. Social Haunting| Deindustrialisation| Marxism| Ethnography
Will also spam you with dog pictures 🐾
Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social Researching music & society | MIRC https://www.musicindustryresearch.com | RMIT https://www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/g/ben-green | TASA Sociology of Music https://www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=671860&module_id=638147 | views my own
J Childhood, Education & Society @journalces.bsky.social #openaccess, #independent, scholarly journal & publishes triannually online | ISSN: 2717-638X | follows #EECERA Ethical Code for ECR | Included in @Scopus |
🔗 https://www.j-ces.com
Journal of Youth Studies @youthstudies.bsky.social Journal of Youth Studies is an international scholarly journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of young people’s experiences and life contexts.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjys20
Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @staenglish, TU Rep @ucustandrews, EDI Lead @sgsah, @ahrcpress/@BBCRadio3 New Gen Thinker, Author @OUPAcademic + @RowmanInternat
Critical Theory, Marxism, empire, medical humanities.
Andy_Bilson @bilson.org.uk Emeritus Prof, mountain biker and Owls fan.
CoFounder of Parents, Families and Allies Network https://pfan.uk
Campaigning to transform child protection so children & families are not oppressed & social workers help them.
Yona Lunsky @yonalunsky.bsky.social Director, Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, CAMH
Passionate about mental health & developmental disabilities. Opinions my own (she/her).
Ceema Samimi, MSSW, MPA, PhD (they/them) @ceemantics.bsky.social Left Twitter in 2022, checking this out now. Assistant Professor, teaching in #socialwork and #youthstudies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Circle keeper, cat and dog parent, coffee lover, abolitionist. I study youth power. 🌈♊🏴💚🤍❤️
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their 🏳️⚧️
EDI Caucus @edicaucus.bsky.social The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Caucus. Multidisciplinary project, funded by UKRI and British Academy, to create inclusive careers across the research and innovation systems in the UK. edicaucus.ac.uk
Ruth Winden @ruthwinden.bsky.social #Careers with #Research Consultant | Fascinated by all things work and careers | European based in Sheffield | Facilitator | Adventurer at ❤️
Give our Research Culture Uncovered podcast a listen https://research-culture.captivate
Prof Abi Powell @abigail-powell.bsky.social Supporting, facilitating and creating social change. Work and live equality & social justice. Views my own. Director at Wattle Insights www.wattleinsights.co.uk
HatiDunn @drhatidunn.bsky.social Senior lecturer in education at LJMU. GBR para laser run European champion 2024 (PMP6). BAHA recipient. Expert by experience. Jenson OTRB 5/4/23🌈 All views my own
Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social phenomenal woman 🦹🏻♀️| deaf 🤟🏼| cyborg 🤖| friendly troublemaker 😈| <Dr/ 👩🏻💻| she/her 👩🏻🌾| | language, disability, and tech | views my own
Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc Queer deaf PhD student in museum studies; museum accessibility consultant. Critical disability theorist supporting the radical model. r/AH mod. Genderqueer. DC-based. Pado! 🌊
http://meredith.cc
Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social Soaking in the magic of languages, pushing back boba liberalism, thinking about the legacies we leave on this planet.
Dr. Linda Campbell (she/her/elle) @lmcampbell.bsky.social In between worlds | Local & global ecosystems | Art & Science | Deaf Scientist in a Hearing World | lives in K'jipuktuk - Halifax. |
Deaf Killjoy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @deafkilljoy.bsky.social deafdisabled queer nerd. Stuff I do: history crip linguistics disability studies sign language deaf studies
Hilde Haualand @hildehaualand.bsky.social Professor in sign language and Interpreting @OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University | Social anthropologist 🌆 Deaf🧏 knitter 🧶 e-biker 🚴🏻Searching for balance, and beg to disagree with myself
Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social Deaf and disabled cis queer woman. Interests in law, disability justice, cats, technology. Drinks a lot of tea.
Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social Technology Access Program at Gallaudet. Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Tech for Deaf/HH. Next-gen accessibility. Perpetually vacillating between “this tech is a game changer for access” and “this tech will exacerbate unequal access.”
charlotte @charlhyde.bsky.social Museum meme enthusiast & deaf accessibilty advocate.
Personal account, so opinions my own.
she/her
Marita Løkken @maritaloekken.bsky.social Nurse. MA in Disability & Society. Deaf. University lecturer in Sign Language and Interpreting @NTNU. Ph.D. candidate @OsloMet.
Dr Emma F-C, PhD, FHEA @emmafc.bsky.social Lecturer, Dementia and Ageing, University of West London
Research: Deaf signers with dementia and Deaf carers
Found either in Barr, Ayrshire or West London
Dr Audrey Cameron OBE CChem HonFRSC @aud2526.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer in Chemistry Education and Deaf Studies at University of Edinburgh
#PGDE Secondary Education
#MSc Inclusion Education
David McKee @dmckeenz.bsky.social
Christian Rathmann @crathmann.bsky.social Professor with focus on Sign Language Linguistics, Acquisition & Learning, Interpreting Studies, Deaf Studies and Cognitive Sciences
Joseph Murray @drjosephmurray.bsky.social
That Deaf Immigrant @annalim.bsky.social Postcolonial FilChi deaf queer femme immigrant linguist. Proponent of deaf liminality. Writing a memoir titled “liminal; liminal; liminal". Investigates cognitive linguistics in heritage Taglish learning. Likes books, vlogs, oracle cards, animism, & music.
Sam Seaver @samseaver.bsky.social Deaf scientist in Chicago, don't call me. #YNWA
John S. Pirone @jspirone.bsky.social Signing deaf, asst prof @uvmvermont, community advocate. Studying ASL education in higher ed, equity in K-12 education. Pronouns: he/him.
Nora Duggan @noraduggan.bsky.social Deaf geographer. Irish migrant living in Sweden. Assistant professor in Linguistics at Stockholm University. Research interests: deaf studies, multilingualism, sociolinguistics.
Robert Adam @rejadam.bsky.social Deaf 🏳️🌈 born in Naarm, live in Scotland, Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Chair of the British Deaf Assocation. Views my own.
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social MOTHER TONGUE, out now.
Also TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR
🧏🏻 deafie | they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly
https://buttondown.com/signs+wonders/archive
https://linktr.ee/Novic