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Postdoctoral Research Associate @SpinPlatesCare exploring the mental health of carers |dis/political love | #newmaterialisms | #Dravet #VNS #Epilepsy mum|she/her

Cirencester & Sheffield Uni
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
Fabulous EdD weekend - thank you @EducationSheff and particular thanks to @louisejkay for sharing your viva experience with us this morning, so useful and also super motivating - thank you!
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
Thank you so much to all who came to share their research, their time and their thoughts at #NewDirectionsCDS @JLSirotkin @LeahFBurch
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
Elf: “I think they’ve put the wrong toy in your son’s gift bag from Santa” Me: *quick glance* “Nope, that’s the pink fairy boat we ordered thank you” 🙄 #pinkforall
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
Yvonne Wechuli - if a person has to counter prejudices all the time it's exhausting - it's emotion work #NewDirectionsCDS
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
Please take a look and share: our upcoming postgrad symposium “New Directions in Critical Disability Studies’, one day event at University of Sheffield on Tues 9th July 2019 via @wordpressdotcom
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
3 years
Thank you so, so much. Feeling so lucky to have had such a wonderful doctoral journey and such a positive viva experience. Still processing this (with fizz)!
@k_runswick_cole
Prof Katherine Runswick-C
3 years
Congratulations to @Martina_S_ who passed her viva today with #NoCorrections Enormous thanks to examiners @drlizchesworth & Rachel Holmes @EducationSheff
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
@DrLaGarrettKing talking about being told to be emotionless in our work but if you’re not emotionally affected, what’s the point? #EdDweekend @EducationSheff
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
Emotional but very happy to have had the opportunity to share my family’s experiences of #VNS therapy for epilepsy with #livanova the medical tech company who developed the therapy device. Fab morning!
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
Pffff when furniture gets delivered and the guys ask which way round I think ‘my husband would like it to assemble’ 🙄 I’m perfectly capable of using a screw driver and figuring out how to put things together #thisgirlcanthankyou
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
For a museum/gallery visitor with visual impairment the journey begins online via advance planning - the websites themselves are therefore either initial barriers or gateways to access @MadHatsTeaParty #NewDirectionsCDS
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@sharon_l_smith @LeahFBurch @JLSirotkin Thank you so much for coming and for your fantastic presentation - given me a lot to think about 😊
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
Fabulous way to kick of the #EdDweekend @sheffielduni with a brilliant talk last night by @GCzerniawski on what makes a good thesis, so helpful, thank you!
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
Suissa asking what is success and who defines it when thinking about character education and the broader social & political contexts of children’s lives #eddsheffmay19
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
Austerity has created an environment for necropolitics to thrive in Britain - @RebeccaPorter_ #NewDirectionsCDS
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
next up @IamMrJ introducing the circadian rhythm and the hidden assumptions that there is a 24 hour regulating pattern for all #NewDirectionsCDS
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
#NewDirectionsCDS @AHEMurray discussing biological citizenship and the UK benefits system - who gets to decide what disability means and what counts as an 'authentic' disabled experience
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@RebeccaPorter_ @LeahFBurch @JLSirotkin Thank you so much for coming and for your presentation! Lovely to meet you
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@AntonisKtenidis Thank you so much!
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5 years
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
10 months
Such a wonderful start to the day! Thank you all! Please do join us if you're interested in reading Braidotti's Posthuman Knowledge with us - we're only just starting chapter 1!
@VictoriaCluley
Victoria Cluley
10 months
Thanks so much @BDawSrdanovic @NikitaHayden @julideda @DrMartinaSmith for an open and friendly start to the Posthuman Knowledge reading group. I really enjoyed talking about this with you all. We missed everyone who couldn't make it. Looking forward to the next meeting.
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
This fab set of #posthuman postcards arrived today!Thank you @KaySocLearn @BehrouzKamran
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Dr Martina Smith
5 years
Moving on now to ableism, technology and de/constructions of stigma with @RMaskos #NewDirectionsCDS
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5 years
@AntonisKtenidis discussing the heightism of language - to 'grow-up' #NewDirectionsCDS
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Dr Martina Smith
1 year
A fabulous day - thank you so much for inviting us! @AntonisKtenidis @cvatkinson
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
2 years
@sarah_lisl @k_runswick_cole I would love to hear your thoughts if you do get a chance to take a look! Thank you so much Katherine for sharing the link 😊
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Dr Martina Smith
8 months
@SpinPlatesCare
SpinningPlates_CarerMH
8 months
We are finishing our week at Spinning Plates by sharing some of our thinking about the importance of making time for what matters (and may come to matter unexpectedly!) in co produced research:
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@AntonisKtenidis discussing how height politics play out in the classroom and intersect with developmental discourses #NewDirectionsCDS
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Dr Martina Smith
10 months
@FRibenfors Thank you so much for sharing 🙌🏻
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
2 years
I’m so looking forward to watching the recording of your keynote @k_runswick_cole as wasn’t able to join the live event today. #Dis /PoliticalLove
@k_runswick_cole
Prof Katherine Runswick-C
2 years
Taking my inspiration from @DrMartinaSmith What would happen if we began by recognising the power of love as a force for change in #SENDSystems ? #BERA_BCF @EducationSheff
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Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@JoAlbinClark Thank you Jo, booked on! x
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Dr Martina Smith
2 years
@drjoolspage @AlisonWakeford1 @lmvgoddard @kate_yel Congratulations! It was so lovely to see you xx
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Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@sharon_l_smith @k_runswick_cole Thank you so much @k_runswick_cole - @sharon_l_smith it is open access in the white rose eThesis repository, I’ll send you the link. I wrote it is as an ongoing becoming-thesis-apparatus so I hope it might be helpful!😊
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
exploring where art and critical disability studies can meet with Anne-Marie Atkinson #NewDirectionsCDS
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Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@IamMrJ @LeahFBurch @JLSirotkin Thank you so much and thank you for your fantastic presentation - lovely to meet you 😊
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
David Hartley concluding cognitive estrangement as a productive arena of difference - otherness reformulated as 'reciprocity' #NewDirectionsCDS
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
4 years
So much this. My son’s annual review last week triggered 3 days of migraine. I find it so draining.
@MsJoBillington
Dr Jo Billington
4 years
Anyone else always feel totally washed out after an annual review? The emotional labour for parents can be huge.
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
10 months
@sharon_l_smith Of course!! I'll email you tomo 🙌🏻
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Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@sharon_l_smith @k_runswick_cole That’s so lovely to hear, thank you, really pleased it was useful!
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6 years
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2 years
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1 year
@nmgilbride @BPSOfficial Congrats! 👏🏻
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
@KJBennett4 Aww thank you! Still buzzing today which is a lovely feeling! I hope you are ok and all is going well xx
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
@drjoolspage Oh my goodness thank you, such a lovely comment to read & means a lot to me. I hope you are well xx
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
4 years
@LeahFBurch Huge congrats! 👏🏻💗
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
Kicking off #EdDSheffMay19 with Judith Suissa talking about the political context of character education
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Dr Martina Smith
2 years
Thank you so much for sharing @k_runswick_cole !
@k_runswick_cole
Prof Katherine Runswick-C
2 years
Great to see @DrMartinaSmith taking about "Becoming Untrained in Methodology" in @sheffielduni 's Doctoral Times @EducationSheff
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@JoAlbinClark Wonderful news! Congratulations! Xx
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Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@nmgilbride Wonderful! Huge congrats Dr Gilbride!
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@nmgilbride Can’t wait to catch up! Xx
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@KJBennett4 Thank you so, so much Kay! I hope you are doing well xx
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@LeahFBurch Fantastic! Congratulations 😘
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
BBC News - Muckamore Abbey seclusion room was 'dark dungeon' “footage shows some of the most degrading and cruel behaviour against vulnerable adults ever captured in the UK”
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
Thank you @k_runswick_cole 😊
@k_runswick_cole
Prof Katherine Runswick-C
5 years
Follow #newdirectionscds today for more provocations in disability studies today! @iHumanSheff @EducationSheff @SheffSocScience Congratulations to the organisers @JLSirotkin @LeahFBurch @Martina_Smith_
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Dr Martina Smith
6 years
@k_runswick_cole @christheowl Oh my goodness thank you, that’s such a lovely thing to say😊
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Dr Martina Smith
1 year
@drjoolspage Wonderful! 💗 Congratulations x
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
@SonyiaJackson Thank you so much Sonyia, you’ve been a huge support through it all with kindness, understanding and support - means a lot xx
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Dr Martina Smith
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Dr Martina Smith
1 year
@k_runswick_cole Thank you 💗 And happy #IWD2023 to you!
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
@KJBennett4 Thank you! Had two fab days so super happy! My boys were both a bit tearful though bless them as they’re just not used to me being away in the week! Xx
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Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@k_runswick_cole Oooh this looks fab! Thank you.
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
Mic on and ready to go #vnslife #ourstory
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
3 years
So looking forward to this writing/thinking together @JoAlbinClark
@JoAlbinClark
Dr Jo Albin-Clark
3 years
'working with concepts and at the same time opening them up, aerating them, so they can continue to breathe.' Excited to be brewing writing plans with @Martina_S_ and working with Karen's Barad's thinking again
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@SuzanneCulshaw Thank you & likewise 😊
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
@SonyiaJackson He doesn’t even know I’ve bought it 🤣
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Dr Martina Smith
4 years
@LeahFBurch Huge congrats! Amazing news 🥂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Xx
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@nmgilbride Huge congrats! Wonderful news x
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
6 years
I just supported this case! via @CrowdJustice
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@JoAlbinClark Thank you so much! 🥰
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
5 years
@JoAlbinClark @drlizchesworth @nikkifairchild2 @clarrie_smith Oooh this is now on my reading list for tomo, thank you! ☺️
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
3 years
@JoAlbinClark @EventbriteUK Ooh thank you for sharing this! Looks fab x
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@DrMartinaSmith
Dr Martina Smith
2 years
Fantastic! Congrats @JoAlbinClark 👏🏻
@JoAlbinClark
Dr Jo Albin-Clark
2 years
Interested in Twitter?🐦Ofcourse you are! My latest article in Learning,Media andTechnology explores Twitter as digital doings @LMTEds @EHU_FOE @EHU_Research @JohnPP
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