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Disability can do more than inform research. Discover how Disability Matters is putting disabled people's knowledge and experiences at the heart of more inclusive health research.

Transforming Health Research Through Disability Knowledge

What does it take to build a more inclusive research community? Sandeep Singh explores how disabled researchers can help shape the future of health research.

How Do We Build the Next Generation of Disabled Researchers?

How do we talk about disability in health research? Dr Elaine Cagulada explores new ways of understanding disability and why representation matters.

How Should Disability Be Represented in Health Research?

How can disability help create better research? Kerri Heng shares how universities can build more inclusive research cultures by learning from disabled researchers and their experiences.

What Can Universities Learn From Disabled Researchers? 

How can research better reflect disabled people's health priorities? Jodi Lamanna explores approaches that put lived experience at the heart of research.

How Can Research Better Represent Disabled People's Health?

What does health mean to disabled people? Discover how researchers in India are working with communities to explore health, dignity and belonging, with disabled people leading the conversation.

What Are the Health Priorities of Disabled People?

How can health research become more inclusive? Professor Dan Goodley explores how Disability Matters is supporting disabled researchers and reshaping research culture.

What is the Disability Matters project?

Discover how researchers are improving farming, food supply and access to healthy food across the UK.

How can we fix our food system?

Dr Xavier L’Hoiry describes an innovation collaboration between the university, police forces and NGOs designed to tackle sexual trafficking taking place online.

Tackling sexual trafficking through police-academic collaboration

Following on from our ‘Animating Inclusion’ film, ‘How can we improve subtitles’ explores how the filmmaking industry could make use of our ‘Six Recommendations for Change’.

How can we improve subtitles?

What if disability shaped how we think about knowledge and power? Professor Dan Goodley explores how universities can move beyond labels and rethink belonging.

Disability as a driver of change: depathologising the university

How did Sheffield’s grinders shape modern health laws? Discover how early research into deadly lung disease changed workplace safety.

Out of the Dingy Hole

A video co-created using the design fiction method, depicting a future scenario of smart public communications in public health, designed to facilitate research and public discussions.

Public Health 2040: A Future Shaped by Data and Decisions

Thinking and behaviour can change with MND. Discover how CognoMND helps detect these changes earlier.

How CognoMND™ can help 

CognoMND™ uses simple conversations with a virtual agent to study speech and spot signs of thinking changes in MND.

What is the technology behind CognoMND™?

Motor Neuron Disease can affect how people think and behave as well as move. In this short film, SITraN researchers explain the signs to look for and why early screening is important.

Introducing CognoMND™

What is the human cost of our food? Learn how Social Life Cycle Assessment reveals hidden impacts like fair pay, labour rights and community wellbeing.

What Is the Human Impact of the Food We Eat?

Can arts and culture provide a first step on the road to digital inclusion, motivating older people to engage with digital tools, technology, and services?

Digital arts and culture: The perfect ‘hook’ for digital inclusion

Discover how innovative drug diversion schemes are changing the way police respond to drug-related offences in England.

Alternatives to Criminalisation: Police Drug Diversion

The majority of us have heard about the placebo effect and the impact it can have on the brain and body. But have you heard of the nocebo effect?

Nocebo Effect: Placebo’s Evil Twin

This video shares Sheffield research on mesothelioma and palliative care. It explains what palliative care is and how it can support patients and families.

Palliative Care and Mesothelioma

This video provides families with key information about coronial investigations after a death from mesothelioma. We aim to help families understand the process and share sources of support.

Mesothelioma and the Coroner

Everyday activities in the home produce air pollution, which can affect health if levels are high. Discover which activities produce indoor air pollution, and how to tackle this through ventilation.

Fresh air for good health: How to reduce air pollution in your home

Imagine if we could turn over public land for food and nature. If we could nourish our communities, without all the red-tape so often encountered by those who want to get on and grow food.

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