Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met
@LearningMet
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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This is quite the development. Time to rethink and act on the continuing avoidable deaths of people with learning disabilities.
So it's time to implement a different way to stop the early and in many cases, avoidable, deaths of people with learning disabilities or autism. LeDeR doesn't have the legal powers to ensure change happens. Meeting next with the Minister @sarasiobhan @GeorgeJulian
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/uKnqPkAmb…
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-rel…
Latest department newsletter is out. Literally bursting with research news and brilliance… sway.cloud.microsoft/KPCKlTigkjzPMh…
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…
New resources from the My Medications and Me project: youtu.be/iHNI0IMbR-A?si…
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Good to see strong coverage of this book. As Rachel says, we shouldn’t shy away from this stuff and silence it.
Proper chewy discussion about my new book with Rachel Wright on 'The Skies We're Under' podcast. podbean.com/ew/pb-m4knh-19… #SocialMurder
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Erasure and Social Murder with Sara Ryan | S5 | E2
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…
Perfect example of a number of sentences that say nothing, add up to nothing, do nothing, change nothing. It’s a central part of the problem. (Not Paul’s tweet but the response.)
Empty ministerial rhetoric on health is contributing to the killing of our loved ones. The 22-year life expectancy gap for people with Learning Disabilities is a direct result of a lack of statutory, accountable action. Stop the talk, start the change #LearningDisabledLivesMatter
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. learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/new-liber…
Good to see this review of Prof Ryan’s new book.
A brief review of the brilliant 'Critical Health and Learning Disabilities' by @sarasiobhan stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and-p…
The first round of the @NIHRSSCR Practice Evaluation Scheme is now open for applications. Practitioners in adult social care can partner with researchers to evaluate what works in your organisation. Deadline for applications: 5pm Friday 13th February 2026. sscr.nihr.ac.uk/career-develop…
Our Prof Hatton is picking up the blogging habit again. Updating the education stats about disabled children. chrishatton.blogspot.com/2025/10/childr…
On tomorrow!
Very much looking forward to this online seminar on Wednesday. Sign up details below.
My book of the year ❤️
Very much looking forward to this online seminar on Wednesday. Sign up details below.
Good to see this… a corker of a read.
Very much looking forward to this online seminar on Wednesday. Sign up details below.
Very much looking forward to this online seminar on Wednesday. Sign up details below.
Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky.
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
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
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