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Universal Design for the Workplace with Stuart Moore

A new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture with Stuart Moore of @nadsn.bsky.social has just dropped wherever podcasts can be found!
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Access to Work Experiences Survey 2026 Why we are asking for your experiences The Public Accounts Committee is carrying out an inquiry into the Access to Work scheme. This follows serious concerns about long processing delays, growing back...

Access to Work is now under formal scrutiny and the Access to Work Collective needs your lived experience!

Complete the survey by 20 Feb 26: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

linkedin.com/company/accesstoworkcollective

#AccessToWork #DisabilityInclusion #NADSN #DisabledStaff #Equality

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As we wind down for the much-needed festive holidays, we wanted to send out season’s greetings on behalf of NADSN!

Hamied, Jacquie and Stuart
Chair & Vice Chairs and co-Directors

https://linktr.ee/NADSN

📚 New Book Alert: Cripping the Archive – Disability, History, and Power


https://mngbookshop.co.uk/9780252088797/cripping-the-archive

💸 20% discount code: LSMNGUP

#DisabilityStudies #CrippingTheArchive #InclusiveArchives #DisabilityHistory

Disability Action Research Kollective

Call for Contributors - Disability Action Research Kollective

DARK is always looking for contributors to produce 120-word biographies for zines.

For more information, contact Richard at Richardamm@gmail.com.

https://libcom.org/tags/disability-action-research-kollective

House of Lords Report: Home-Based Working

https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/771/homebased-working-committee/news/210300/working-from-home-could-get-people-back-into-work

#FlexibleWorking #HomeWorking #DisabilityInclusion #HybridWork #WorkplaceEquality #NADSN #InclusionAtWork

Call for Participants: Are you living with a chronic mobility condition and use a fitness app or device to manage your health?


Contact: myfanwy.fflur@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

#ResearchParticipation #ChronicIllness #MobilityConditions #FitnessApps #UniversityOfManchester #InclusiveResearch

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The Cripping Research Culture podcast has launched with two episodes:

🎙️ Inclusive Creative Methods — Nicole Brown
🎙️ Practical Support for Precarious Researchers — Ash Collins

🔗 https://sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/waarc/cripping-research-culture-podcast

Disabled Students Still Face Major Barriers in Higher Education, New Report Shows

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabled-students-still-face-major-barriers-higher-education-new-report-shows

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diversity & Inclusion in STEM The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diversity and Inclusion in STEM aims to promote the inclusion and progression of people from diverse backgrounds in STEM.

Call for Ideas: APPG on Diversity & Inclusion in STEM

Deadline: 11 December 2025

Submit your ideas: https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/appg-diversity-inclusion-stem

#STEM #DiversityInSTEM #Inclusion #Equity #NADSN #DisabilityInSTEM #ScienceForAll

Autism, Maladjustment and Special Schools in Post-War Britain Join us for a deep dive into the history of special education in post-war Britain - exploring challenges, progress, and the road ahead.

Autism, Maladjustment and Special Schools in Post‑War Britain

8 Dec 2025, 14:00 (GMT)
Online (free)

👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-maladjustment-and-special-schools-in-post-war-britain-tickets-1968712764876

#Autism #Neurodiversity #DisabilityHistory #SpecialEducation #Inclusion

International Day of Persons with Disabilities – 3 Dec 2025

Fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress

🔗 Learn more: https://social.desa.un.org/issues/disability/international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities-3-december

#IDPD2025

Supporting Disabled Workers - Thursday 4 December 2025, 14:00–15:00 (GMT)

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4317641536706/WN_4IYJFlvGSbWKxEkQOOHDkA?mc_cid=30108124d8&mc_eid=5cb688fb39#/registration

#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UnionReps #DisabilityRights #Inclusion

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A new co-created toolkit by Cressida Ryan (Oxford) and a collaborative team supports neurodivergent students and staff in HE.

🔗 https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/project/neurodivergent-education-for-students-teaching-learning-nestl

A podcast intro and reading list are coming soon.

University of Leicester – International Day of Disabled People 2025

Online events:
Hostility Against Disabled People 3 Dec
Andy’s Man Club 8 Dec
Disabling Education? Workshop 11 Dec

In-person events also in Leicester.
🎟️ https://le.ac.uk/idpwd/events

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For UN International Day for Disabled Persons, STAART is hosting a hybrid workshop on disability-inclusive language. Engage via Mentimeter & request bespoke slides.

🎟️ Free booking: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/greenwich/disability-inclusive-language

More tickets now available!

#RIDEHigher

A Year On-How inclusive is higher education really for its disabled staff? 02/12/2025

A Year On – Disabled Staff in HE
Tue 2 Dec, 3–4pm GMT
Online

RIDE Higher (NADSN) explores NDSS findings on inclusion, career progression, and morale.

🎟️ Free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-year-on-how-inclusive-is-higher-education-really-for-its-disabled-staff-tickets-1921394134579

UK Disability History Month 2025 – Disability, Life & Death

Launch: 20 Nov, Online 18:15–20:00

Join discussions on the value of disabled lives, confronting ableism, eugenics & the Assisted Suicide Bill. Speakers include Tanni Grey-Thompson & Dr Richard Rieser.

🔗 https://ukdhm.org

Blue background with NADSN logo. Illustration of two people on ladders: one energised at the top, one with low energy and a walking aid at the bottom. Caption: ‘With better support, I could have done so much more.’ Text: ‘Creating More Inclusive Workplaces for Academics with Energy Limiting Conditions,’ with University of Liverpool and Independent Social Research Foundation logos.

The University of Liverpool and ISRF have launched new guidance to support academics with Energy Limiting Conditions (ELC).

📅 Webinar: 24 Nov, 2–3pm GMT
Covers systemic changes + individual adjustments to create more inclusive workplaces.

https://AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk

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New research project AI-EMPOWERED explores how AI can support and transform the working lives of Disabled people.

Led by Dr Dan Wheatley and Dr John Gibney, with support from NADSN, shaping inclusive, accessible futures for work and tech.

🔗 ai-empowered.org.uk

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NADSN worked closely with CRUK to improve guidance for Disabled applicants and grantholders: https://tinyurl.com/58hs4rjy

#DisabilityInResearch #EDI #AbleismInAcademia #NADSN #CancerResearch

Dr Melanie Thorley wearing a PhD graduation gown and cap, smiling broadly and standing tall with pride inside a historic university building.

Brilliant news! 🎉 Dr Melanie Thorley has published a new article with @OpenUniversity on disability-inclusive language in higher education, challenging negative terms & sharing the @UniofGreenwich STAART model.

https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.27.2.164

Does your Disabled Staff Network collaborate with local community groups near your workplace?

We’d love to hear your examples of partnership and engagement.

💬 Share below or contact uk.nadsn@gmail.com and andrew.crosbie@sqa.org.uk

Email: ssrhlg@leeds.ac.uk LinkedIn: Ruby Goodley X: @ruby_goodley TRANSCRIPT: Hello, my name is Ruby Goodley. The purpose of this video is to display some more information about me as a researcher, why this project is exciting and important, and what I need from you as a participant in my project. I am a cisgender white woman with blonde curly hair and wearing a black tank top with tattoos visible on my arm and I'm in front of a blurred background. So a little bit about me as a researcher. I'm a second year funded PhD researcher at the University of Leeds and this project comes out of my undergraduate tutelage in social anthropology at the University of Manchester, where disability was mentioned a handful of times during the curriculum. And the absence of Disability Studies and a focus on disability in the discipline led me to interrogate where are all the disabled anthropologists. So in my own personal experience, I have a hidden impairment through my diagnosis of irritable bowel PhD Project Call out: Advisory Board

Opportunity to shape inclusive research Ruby Goodley (PhD researcher, University of Leeds) is seeking advisory board members for her ESRC-funded project.

🎥 Learn more: https://youtu.be/vuVSKk4Brmw

🔗 Research profile: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/pgr/3606/ruby-goodley

@rubygoodley.bsky.social

Official launch of Histories of Disability: Chapter Two!

🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 17:30–20:00 (GMT)
📍 Uni of Greenwich & online

🎟️ https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/greenwich/anthology-chapter-two-launch

Catch up: https://tinyurl.com/2jrj2jb7

#DisabilityHistory #NADSN #STAART

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This #DisabilityHistoryMonth, NADSN is gifting our community a celebration of #DisabledJoy 💜

Join us Fri 28 Nov for Laughter, Joy & Pride - humour & creativity by and for Disabled people 🎤✨

🎟️ Book: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/nadsn

#NADSN #DisabilityHistoryMonth #DisabledPride

Our NADSN general catch-up meeting is today!

🗓️ Tues 28 Oct
🕓 15:45–17:15 UK time
📍 Join us on MS Teams – link in your calendar invite, or ListServ emails

Looking forward to seeing you there 💬💜

#NADSN #DisabledStaffNetwork #InclusionMatters #DisabilityRights

Researchers from @openuniversity.bsky.social and London South Bank University are exploring how to make doctoral vivas more accessible for neurodivergent candidates.

They’re seeking input from staff who’ve supervised, examined, or supported PhD candidates.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/3r5aka36

Accessible Design History Grant - Awards - Design History Society Welcome to the Design History Society, the leading organisation for design historians, curators and practitioners.

Accessible Design History Grant for disabled researchers, students & practitioners funding disability-related costs.

Rolling deadline until funds are allocated.
Apply via @sodesignhistory.bsky.social 👇
🔗 https://www.designhistorysociety.org/awards/accessible-design-history-grant