Sophie Savage's Outputs (9)

Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures (2023)
Journal Article

People with lived experience of disability, family carers, students and academics in robotics and social sciences came together as co-researchers to ask: How can robotics technology support disability rights? How can co-production research be develop... Read More about Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures.

Only together, we flourish: The importance of friendship and care in navigating anti-Asian hate and shielding during COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic and the response of the government of the United Kingdom have exacerbated deep-seated inequalities. People of color and disabled people have been disproportionately impacted during the pandemic. This essay has two authors, Sophi... Read More about Only together, we flourish: The importance of friendship and care in navigating anti-Asian hate and shielding during COVID-19.

Disability rights and robotics: Being there without being there (2023)
Book Chapter

We are Sophie and Tillie, and we worked together on the Disability Rights and Robotics project, at the University of the West of England, as co-researchers in a diverse group including disabled people, carers, students, and academics from social scie... Read More about Disability rights and robotics: Being there without being there.

Telepresence teaching in higher education as a reasonable adjustment: Pilot project report 2022 (2022)
Report

Intensive care, autoethnography and solidarity (2022)
Journal Article

This article begins by providing a personal narrative of the intensive nature of the care between myself and my mother in the context of living through childhood liver disease, transplantation and cancer, often in hospital far from home. Psychosocial... Read More about Intensive care, autoethnography and solidarity.

Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures (2020)
Report

This project brought together a team of 25 co-researchers from the University of the West of England, Fairfield Farm College and Wiltshire Centre of Independent Living. The co-researchers are a diverse group including disabled people, carers, student... Read More about Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures.

The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents a personal reflection on my childhood with liver disease, including thoughts on going to school with chronic illness, my family and undergoing transplantation.

The chapter is presented under the framework set out at the begin... Read More about The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation.

On medication through adolescence after transplantation (2010)
Journal Article

Disability rights and robotics online public event
Report