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Only together, we flourish: The importance of friendship and care in navigating anti-Asian hate and shielding during COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Savage, S., & Wong, D. (2023). Only together, we flourish: The importance of friendship and care in navigating anti-Asian hate and shielding during COVID-19. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 12(1),

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
Savage, S., & Curran, T. (2023). Disability rights and robotics: Being there without being there. In S. Robinson, & K. R. Fisher (Eds.), Research Handbook on Disability Policy (631). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing

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.

Intensive care, autoethnography and solidarity (2022)
Journal Article
Savage, S. (2022). Intensive care, autoethnography and solidarity. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 15(2), 107-115. https://doi.org/10.1332/147867321X16575526838203

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
Curran, T., Savage, S., Gibson, A., Clarke, J., Morgan, S., Edwards, K., …Comandur, K. (2020). Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures. University of the West of England

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
Savage, S. (2018). The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation. In K. Runswick-Cole, T. Curran, & K. Liddiard (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies (41-56). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9

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.