Programme Manager @ OXFSN
Spreading joy and impact of inclusion by inspiring #TheArtofthePossible. Leading the crusade for social change and equality of opportunity. International Thought Leader, Speaker, Writer #IntellectualDisabilities #SocialJustice
https://blackwells.biz
Director - England @arcengland.bsky.social
Mum, wife/ widow, enjoy travelling
Plan for tomorrow and live for today! | #MyFutureCare Handbook, Training & Community Support | 🌐 myfuturecare.org | A project of 🌐 mycarematters.org
News from Marie Curie UK for researchers, health and social care professionals and those affected by end of life care.
Together we’ll ensure a better end of life for all.
Involving people with learning disabilities in end-of-life care planning (NIHR202963). Check out our end-of-life care planning toolkit here: https://www.victoriaandstuart.com/!
We are a global community, we believe everyone is equal & each one of us brings unique gifts to the world. Together we can create inclusive & welcoming communities where everyone can share their gifts. #EverydayCitizenship
https://www.citizen-network.org
Chief Executive of the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group
Personal views
He/Him
We’re the UK’s leading end of life charity. Hospice care and support, research and campaigns. Whatever the illness, we’re with you to the end 💛
Research Fellow at Kingston University📍Palliative care and learning disability 🌻 UCL PhD in prognostication in hospice MDTs 🏛 Conversation Analysis 💬 she/her
Palliative Care Consultant | Academic (PhD) | Public Health Palliative Care | Value in death
Research Associate at the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, King’s College London
We believe in choice at the end of life. Including the option of assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.
We are a Community Interest Company focusing on Self Advocacy
Research manager. Talking about caring, research, palliative and end of life care, grief & bereavement, being a sib of an adult with LD and other stuff in between.
Opinions are my own. (She/her)
NIHRSPHR funded academic and community-led project with people with learning disabilities, focused on belonging and health.
Former palliative care doctor
Campaigning for better public understanding & conversations about dying
Writer: With The End In Mind & Listen
Speaker
Hopeful despite the circumstances.
www.kathrynmannix.com
Experts in turning complex information into accessible Easy Read in English and Welsh. Contact us for a quote: easyread@ldw.org.uk. Part of Learning Disability Wales. #EasyRead #AccessibleInformation #Charity
➡️ https://www.easyread.wales/
Our Mission:
The Arc of PA’s mission is to advocate with and for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to promote and secure their rights
Works in disability with my own company Purple Advantage www.purpleadvantage.com. Particularly interested in making the world a more inclusive place for everyone. Loves studying (now: Exec MBA:writing publications on disability employment) sport and music.
People’s Health Trust is a national charity working with local communities across Great Britain to address health inequalities through the building blocks of health. We want to stop people dying too young.
We support people with learning disabilities, Autism and other assessed needs to live independently in a home of their own.
We're a charity that supports people with learning disabilities, mental and physical support needs to live their lives to the full. We’re not monitoring messages here at the moment - please reach us on our other channels. 💙
Director of Engagement and Development for @unitedresponse.bsky.social. Chair of the Government’s Disability Unit North West’s Regional Stakeholder Network. Campaigning for a better future for social care.
Together we really are better. Work in Notts adult social care. Would always prefer to be in or on the water. All views my own
Challenging and changing adult social care language and practice #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters #UsNotThemAndUs
https://rewritingsocialcare.blog/
Director, Writer, Teacher, Campaigner.
Founded ETT. Opened the Rose.
Laughing Boy, All Our Children, Poor Naked Wretches, Beautiful Lives.
http://www.stephenunwin.uk/
Campaigner. Activist, Lived Experience Trainer. MA Social Policy.
#LearningDisabilities #HealthInequalities
Former charity Chair.
Trying to build a better world.
Also love #LFC
Views expressed are my own.
www.ramandeepkaur.co.uk
Triple X Syndrome, Autism, Ataxia, Asthma, Allergies, Adrenal Insufficiency, Reflux, IBS and other health conditions. I have social services support.I believe in God. I enjoy listening to audiobooks and the radio. I like watching the weather and nature.
Social Care. Counselling & Psychotherapy. Southall FC. Pop Music. Former Bodybuilder. Co Founder of Rightful Lives. Author of "Lines" and "Get Steven Home."
Married to Ellen. Cat convert in later life.
Still working to make sure people can self-direct their care and support.
Progressive politics, equality, environmentalism, pro- Europe (and more). Used to do things nationally around disability. Now retired & trying to make sense of it all, helping to develop an age friendly community & appreciating the natural world.
Journalist|editor|author
📚NEW BOOK Double Discrimination 2026
📚Made Possible 2020
👩🏽💻 https://sabasalman.com
✍🏽Private Eye|Guardian|Byline Times|Ed. Community Living
💜Chair @sibs.org.uk|Ambassador @ndtihello.bsky.social
🏛️FRSA @thersaorg.bsky.social
Philosopher and social activist with interest in self-directed support, basic income, neighbourhood democracy, neighbourhood care and anything else that helps create a world where everyone matters (and chippy Northerner). https://citizen-network.org
Professor of Public Policy and Public Management, Uni of Bham. Interested in social care, the public service workforce and crosswords, https://21stcenturypublicservant.wordpress.com/
Exhausted full-time Carer of adult son. Angry about how shit Adult Social Care is for most and trying to influence positive change locally one small step at a time. Currently trying to learn the legislation because someone has to.
Interests: academia; NHS: health research; frailty in OP; learning disability; Patient public involvement/engagement/exp. in research & NHS; Down’s syndrome; gardening; allotments;left politics; environment. Views entirely my own.
She/her. I have ADHD
European. SEND parent and campaigner.
Strategic engagement lead at www.genomicsengland.co.uk, on a secondment from www.ons.gov.uk. Ex-NHS England digital team.
Data, health, social care, autism, LD, caring, travel, gigs, coffee. A Scot who 💙s living in SE London.
Reader (Associate Prof) in intellectual disabilities, Dept Social Care & Social Work, Manchester Met Uni. Researching social & health inequalities, digital inclusion, qual, creative, participatory research methods
✨Freelance Producer and Engagement Lead✨
Company Producer at Firebird Theatre ✨ Membership and Engagement Lead at LDE ✨she/her✨Views own, obv✨
Updates from #DigitalLifeline project at #ManMetUni in collaboration #ARC, #GoodThingsFoundation, #LearningDisabilityEngland, and #SeeAbility. Funded by #NIHR
Founder @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social, writer, #autistic, #SaveOurChildrensRights, #SENDsky #EhlersDanlos #Disability #ChildrensRights, Devoted Grandma #wheelchair user #chronicpain
Mum to Amber #all things accessibility ♿️ #SEND
Night time economy panel member #Greater Manchester #accessibility for everyone
Self employed learning Disability support worker ( Your IT Now) specialises in Internet/social media safety/tech and director of Love Community CIC ,changing the world one project at a time! 🤣👍
1 of 6 unpaid directors, Zumba Instructor, Joint Lead on Self Advocacy and 2024 Joint Outstanding Northwest Leader. All views are my own
1 of the Unpaid Director for Together All Are Able and one of the leads for self advocacy in Wirral a member of NCAG and life time member of LDE and a member of the Liverpool City Region disability Panel views are my own
A personal account
UK
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn,
is just to love,
and be loved, in return”
-Eden Ahbez, Nature Boy
Firmly believe in the age old where there's a will there's a way! #ABCD
Proud learning disability nurse....ardent socialist....and a curry eating, rambling, narrow boat dwelling, beer drinking, dog owning, occasional folk musician!!
Refugee from twitter...
Associate Professor Health Inequalities @UniversityLeeds #Qualitative health research to improve inclusion in research & healthcare. Working with people with a learning disability to innovate in creative methods for inclusion. https://linktr.ee/amymrussell
Interested in communication ,#humanrights, equality, #socialcare, #learningdisabilty, #poetry, tennis ,the great outdoors ! Was a founder of the #socialenterprise @TalkingMats. NED of central advocacy partners & First Fund, FRCSLT, FRSA.
I’m passionate about inclusion and building a society with an economy that works for all. I talk and think a lot about Co-production, Health and Social Care, Learning Disability, Neurodiversity, Community, Citizenship and Kindness. Masters student @UoB
Qualitative-first surveys – discover attitudes, ideas, and lived experiences.
Experience the power of peer interaction with Gobby. Analyse overlapping experiences and ideas to uncover nuanced trends within interconnected communities.
https://gobby.io
Programme Director @ Community Catalysts (Local Area Coordination and Innovators Learn) Interested in asset based working, leadership, community, inclusion & good lives for all. Proud dad of daughters. Trustee of Disability North.
Domiciliary Carer. Proud Dad, Grandad. Enjoy tennis 🎾 walking,gardening,exercise,cats,life.
#FBNHS #FBPE #MuscularDystrophy #WeAreZest #ChangingPlaces #SENDcrisis 🌊 DM's on request only. Bluesky 9/11/24
🍋Catalyst for change in health care ++ Creator of Whose Shoes? approach to coproduction, helping people work together to improve lives. https://padlet.com/WhoseShoes/overview
#HSJ100 Wild Card ♥️♦️♠️♣️
Host of ‘Wild Card - Whose Shoes?’ podcast @WildCardWS 🎤
Chair of The Public Law Project, Non Exec Director at Southdown, Freelancer, cyclist, runner.
Green Councillor for Bromborough Ward in Wirral. Disability campaigner for 30+ years . Views DEFINITELY my own
Wild card. Walking in the shoes of more interesting people. 🍋🍋🍋 Podcast by Gill @WhoseShoes and friends. https://whoseshoes.buzzsprout.com
#mothering #disability #education #SocialCare #activism #PeakDistrict - Professor of Education, she/her
LD Researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Lives in Wales.
Stolen Lives. https://stolenlives.blog
Son with learning disability, autism, ADHD and epilepsy.
Autistic herself.
Lived experience partner NHS England, National Voices.Unpaid carer for last 28yrs & counting. Passionate about person centred care & working with systems to co-produce &co design with everyone. SEND experience Love my dog, Leia and getting those miles in!
Wanderer in the story fields of life
Extremely proud mum and advocate for my daughter with a learning disability. Determined that she is visible and included.
EM/PEM consultant, learning disability & autism advocate, Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group, Down’s Syndrome Association, RCEMlearning blogger/editor, DFTB bubbler, QMUL PEM MSc hon lecturer, mother, no hobbies cos no other time left 🥴
Researcher at Uni of Manchester: neurodiversity, autism, learning disability, interventions, services & supports
Crazy 🐈 lady
Tea addict
She/her
Senior Adviser at a 'by and for' learning disability charity who spends a lot of time swimming in freezing cold mill.ponds
CEO of Midland Mencap, leading a progressive citizen focussed and influenced organisation. Forty years experience of working across the social care sector. Big ticket interests - Housing, Health Inequalities, Employment, Co-Production
Eclectic. Speech and Language Therapist. Zoologist. Conversation Analyst. Love surfing. Dartmoor. Horse riding. Value ordinary lives for those with learning disabilities. Attachment at the root of everything.
Postdoc researcher | learning disability and autism | neurodivergent | she/they | a little Freudian monkey |
Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. Research on disability studies, action research, & the arts. ADHDer. Working class academic.
Reader in Social Work. Learning disability, mental health, citizenship and human rights
Learning disability nurse, Director of Wellbeing. Passions include #Coproduction #PBS #PMLD #Mindfulness
Trainer, writer, consultant. Interested in art, human rights, learning disability, mental health and autism. Get in touch if you need brilliant online neuroaffirming autism training. Neurodivergent. Asturias, Spain.
Independant Consultant Nurse for people with learning disabilities
Queen's Nurse
I like people watching, good food and people who speak out about injustice. Crowdfunded #OpenJustice journalist, reporting mainly about #LearningDisability and #Autism. Also can be found with a needle, all things #sewing #quilting #knitting
Hi .I'm here to help on bringing about awareness on injustices towards Autistic & Learning Disabled people & their family unpaid carer representatives .
Passionate about inclusion & being human.
CEO of In Control, convenor of social care future, partner in policymaking.
Live in northern mini zoo with 1 dog 🐶, 2 cats🐈⬛️🐈 & a tortoise 🐢
Instructional Designer | Artist | Biochemistry Grad
Working on understanding #cognition, memory, and #learning .
Designing tools and resources for children with #learningdisabilities to help them excel academically through tailored support."
Researcher @ University of Leeds & University of Warwick | Participatory research with people with learning disabilities/autistic people | arts-based and creative methods | singer and choir facilitator
The Human First Catalyst
TEDx Speaker | Author of Diagnosis: Human
Creating psychological safety & restoring human being #FlipTheNarrative ©
http://youtu.be/DXBdiGUQ8Lw
www.ellychapple.com
https://amzn.eu/d/dksiD2E - #DiagnosisHuman
Associate Professor @ Uni of Soton working on improving hospital care & research inclusion for people with a #LearningDisability, including people with profound learning disabilities; missed care & care inequalities. Funded by @NIHRresearch
Human Rights Defenders.
We are a not for profit in Scotland supporting good lives.
Occupational Therapist currently taking a hiatus from my clinical lead role. Now in a trainer role #autism #learningdisability. Balancing life with being Neurodivergent and having an immune system that attacks itself #axialSpA #ulcerativecolitis #uveitis
Registered Nurse (Learning Disabilities), Clinical Lecturer
Belfast
#NICHE Fellow. Community Learning Disabilities Nurse. MSc Adv Prof Prac. Queen’s Nurse. I love walking and exploring new places and I love dogs ❤️
Passionate Learning Disability Nurse who loves her Job and has won a few awards. #accessiblevaccineclinic, #getthenationsigning, #VIPathway, #GetLDNursingvisible #Melanoma
love Arsenal, autism, my boys & anything silly. Work - Angels Support Group. Director - Herts Parent Carer Involvement. School Governor. @leiselily on threads
Specialised housing manager and commissioner at Bristol City Council. Adult Social Care.
National Deputy Director for Learning Disability Nursing at NHS England. A proud RNLD & RMN. Purveyor of kindness, quirkiness, and a light sprinkling of humour.
