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Celebrating Disability History Month and International Day of Disabled People: The power of disability research

Disability History Month and International Day of Disabled People serve as important dates through which to remember and acknowledge disabled people’s activism, contributions and histories and mark disability justice as central to human rights.
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Child of the North 2024 Campaign report

Dr Lauren Powell is co-author of the N8 report, the first report in a year-long series – produced jointly by Child of the North and the Centre for Young Lives – that sets out a new plan to support autistic children.
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Has the novelty of your new year's resolution worn off already?

Abigail Parrish explores the best tips and tricks for sticking to a new year's resolution in her article for The Conversation.
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Dr Tim Herrick is awarded 'Masters Teacher of the Year'

We're thrilled to announce that Tim is the proud recipient of this year's FindaMasters 'Masters Teacher of the Year' award following nomination by two students in The School of Education.
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New Research Associate and Project Coordinator roles

The Critical Disability Studies research community in iHuman/ School of Education at the University of Sheffield is excited to announce that we will be recruiting to 10 researcher posts and one project manager over the next calendar year (2023-24). 
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Partnership project to boost wellbeing in pregnancy launched at Pinderfields Hospital

The School of Education has partnered in a project that encourages pregnant women to use art, writing and poetry to capture their pregnancy and post-natal journey, through the journaling movement, Maternal Journal.
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Announcing this year's Postgraduate prize winner

It gives us great pleasure to announce this year's School of Education Postgraduate prize winner. The prize is in recognition of the outstanding work and the exceptional achievement of a postgraduate student on one of our Postgraduate programmes.
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Understanding Society: A Festival of Social Science 2023

Showcasing Sheffield’s world-leading social scientists and their work on tackling some of the greatest problems facing society today. The School of Education is excited to announce that we have five events in this year's festival.
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Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation

Dr Ryan Bramley talks about a new exhibition which challenges previous cultural representations of the Windrush Generation using a collaborative approach to reveal the people behind the paintings.