This video is a piece of work that was created in response to some of the answers and comments from a survey that we carried out to learn more about lived experiences of staff who have a disability, or are carers and also intersectional staff, who are working for our hospitals.
Diversity and Ability
Diversity and Ability have some comprehensive free resources that support disabled people, including those with hidden or unseen differences, to access government support through the Disabled Students’ Allowance and Access to Work schemes.
Rebecca W Morris on Brain Fog
In this newsletter I have collected ideas in literature and art that helped me to understand its effects on me over the years before I had a name for it. I’m also including anecdotes and illustrations from people who suffer from it, and a visual soundscape I made to describe how it feels.
UKDHM 2021 Launch Event
Powerpoint presentation and videos from the launch of UKDHM 2021
Historian Simon Jarrett talks about his research on disabled people’s history
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021
Historian Dr Rosemund Oates on life for disabled people in the early modern period
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021
Hidden impairment interviews for UKDHM 2021
Interviews with Katy Farrell on epilepsy, Yasmin Omar on being a teacher with MS, visually impaired barrister Christina Warner and Emma Charters on dyslexia.
Guides for Employment for disabled people with hidden impairments
Resources produced by TUC for people with hidden impairments
Broadsheet 2021
This year’s UKDHM focuses on two enduring stereotypes that make disabled people’s lives more difficult and act as a barrier to our inclusion.