We do research with people with learning disabilities, autistic people, and their families. We are committed to social justice and more equal research practice.
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Come to our next seminar - 10th December, online or in person. All welcome. 'Understanding Parent Blame' with Prof Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello.
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Another page from our beautiful and powerful Laughing Boy project resource. Full version here: learningmet.mmu.ac.uk/projec…
ALT Page 2 of the resource with text about when and where the play was performed, how many people went to see it and what our project explored. Images of a crowd and London landmarks.
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New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people committees.parliament.uk/com… Some really good ideas here covering diagnosis, education, healthcare, employment & criminal justice contact. But I fear without the big money & resources to make such changes, little will change.
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Welcome to our south Wales annual conference, My Home Matters. Our Chair, Richie, is today's host in Swansea as we explore homes, housing and where people with a learning disability live.
We are livestreaming today's conference on YouTube: youtube.com/live/uKnqPkAmb2A…
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Our latest seminar is on tomorrow. Join online or come along in person to listen to Dr Nathan Keates talk about Autistic Relations; likemindedness, identities and communities. eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-…
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Our Prof of Social Care @sarasiobhan discusses her new book on the unfair treatment of people with learning disabilities on 'The Skies We're Under' podcast.
Listen 🔗 podbean.com/media/share/pb-m…
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The mother of an autistic man who was told he had to stop stacking shelves at a Waitrose store where he had worked as a volunteer for years has said he "deserved better".
Frances Boyd said her son Tom began work experience in 2021 as it gave him 'a sense of purpose' but when she asked if he could be offered "just a few paid hours", Waitrose said he had to stop
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News: The Government has announced a consultation into Liberty Protection Safeguards aimed at improving safeguarding for vulnerable people who lack mental capacity in circumstances that amount to a deprivation of liberty.
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My book of the year ❤️
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Sophie Hinksman and Dawn Cavanagh opening the Good Life Alliance event in the Senedd with a tribute to the late Hefin David MS who supported the Stolen Lives campaign to get people with a learning disability out of long stay hospitals #GoodLifeAlliance #HomesNotHospitals – at Penarth, Wales
ALT Sophie Hinksman and Dawn Cavanagh speaking in the Senedd
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Dawn Cavanagh shares her son Jack's story from the trauma of being locked away in an inappropriate hospital setting where he experienced restraint & seclusion to moving into his own home in the community where he's now living a full happy life #GoodLifeAlliance #HomesNotHospitals – at Penarth, Wales
ALT Dawn Cavanagh sharing her son's story at the Good Life Alliance event at the Senedd
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Link to all projects led/co-led by the @LearningMet team is here; learningmet.mmu.ac.uk/projec… Truly impressive stuff.
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Some highlights this week:
💙Talking about GM’s prevention-first approach @TheKingsFund Conf
🎂20th anniversary @transportwm
❤️@VCFSELeadersGM insights & action
💷Planning for GM Guaranteed Living Income & UBI pilots.
📕@sarasiobhan book launch & panel
🌱GM #CyanLines launched
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So pleased to see this piece about my book in the @BylineTimes 'Why Are We Accepting State-Sanctioned Social Murder?' subscribe.bylinetimes.com/ed…
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Parliament should be sanctioning LA’s whose care less LD Service closures, their ‘tightening’ of assessment / needs - and then commissioning - contracting cheapest agency support- and then not monitoring same- is adding to this.
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Social work reduced to a short assessment glimpse- on site Day/respite Services- for many only in memory. Unskilled - non union - starvation pay- with no tenure- care staff. Who sees this, and who cares ? For people die from all this.
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Upcoming NIHR RSS Participatory Research Ethics Sessions:
18 Sept 25: Navigating Ethics Applications
16 Oct 25: Mad-Centred Participation
20 Nov 25: Topic-based on signup forms feedback
15 Jan 26: Topic-based on signup forms feedback
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