This project involved researchers from Sheffield Hallam working with educators as co-researchers across four schools to explore how staff conceptualise and respond to the notion of sense of self in relation to autism.

'Around the Toilet' workshop at Sheffield Festival of Social Science

Since April 2015, the Around the Toilet project has been exploring what makes a safe and accessible toilet space.

Our ground-breaking 'Around the Toilet' research has explored what makes a safe and accessible toilet space. Nobody thinks about toilets when they think about utopias. Yet, the notion of ‘place’ emerged continually throughout the project.

Disabled people in the UK have a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experience about disability and ageing that currently isn’t discussed within services, communities or the research literature

Servicing Utopia in Education (SUiA): Critical considerations for social change through the accessible use and design of early years and primary education settings.

Pioneering research exploring how toilets function as socio-cultural spaces

Shifting the 'problem' of autism from the individual and onto the educational and social environments in which children find themselves