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Here you will find news about what the Centre has been doing lately.

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Launch of the George Padmore Institute Easy Read series

The Open University’s SHLD group has collaborated with the George Padmore Institute and Generate Voices to create Easy Read resources on Black British history.

Find out more about the George Padmore Institute and Generate Voices.

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New project on end of life care for people with learning disabilities begins

Members of the SHLD group at The Open University are collaborating on the DAPPLE project which runs from September 2024 - August 2027.

This inclusive research project will explore the care that people with learning disabilities receive at the end of their life, and how this can be improved.

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Launch of resources to support end of life care planning for people with learning disabilities

Members of the OU’s SHLD group were part of the Victoria and Stuart project that ran from 2022-2024.

This project produced resources and a toolkit to support end of life care planning in collaboration with people with learning disabilities, family members and support staff.

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Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life

Finding Ivy is an exhibition about the life stories of 13 British-born victims of the German Nazi state’s mass killing programme against disabled and mentally ill people which took place during the first years of the second World War.

A black and white image of Ivy form the 1940s

The exhibition has been co-curated by SHLD members Simon Jarrett and nursing lecturer Helen Atherton of the University of Leeds.

Find out more about the Finding Ivy exhibition and the research that underpins it