MMU Disability Reading Group
Manchester Metropolitan University Disability Reading Group - Meeting 1: 15 Sept 2025
Advertising the regular meetings of the Disability Reading Group, established by Arlene Jackson - a PhD student with the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy
The Disability Reading Group is a collaborative, inclusive group that meets monthly to discuss texts considering disability. Everyone welcome.
Meeting 1: Monday the 15th of September from 1:30pm via Teams.
Brown, N., & Leigh, J. (Eds.). (2020). Ableism in Academia: Theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education. UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13xprjr
The selected text is Ableism in Academia edited by Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh. It is available at MMU library in both print and e-book format and the e-book can be employed for text to speech/the library will provide an alternative format on request. For anyone outside of MMU, the book is currently available on Kindle for 99p.
Please register by contacting Arlene or leaving a comment below, and we will send through a Teams link in advance of the meeting.
DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lectures Series 2025
DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lectures Series 2025
Advertising a series of upcoming lectures and workshops from DoWell - Design for Health and Wellbeing Research group
At DoWell –Design for Health and Wellbeing Research group– we pioneer the use of collaborative creative processes from craft and design to support people’s mental and physical health and to improve products, environments, services and interactions for health and care. We co-design our research into the social and societal aspects of health and wellbeing with the people who will benefit from our studies. Our research contributes to national and international action on mental health, disability, dementia and neurodiversity.
Everyone welcome. Please register through Eventbrite.
Session 7: Co-Designing with Neurodiverse People: An Embodied Creativity Perspective (FINAL SESSION)
Wednesday 25 June 2025, 3.30-5pm, Online session
Dr Laura Malinin, Inaugural Director, Nancy Richardson Design Center & Associate Professor of Interior Architecture + Design, Colorado State University
This presentation describes two multi-year projects where an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students engaged neurodiverse people in co-design processes to improve inclusion and engagement in community programming. The first case involved older adults with dementia and their care partners to develop community performing arts programming. The second project engaged a group of autistic youth to improve visit-ability at a science museum. The projects will be discussed using the lens of embodied creativity as a framework to explain the design and methods used in the different cases as well as outcomes.