Disability

For Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025, Josh Lim (Digital Accessibility Leader) shares five ways to support neurodivergent readers by making your outputs more digitally accessible. Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025 is happening around the world this week (17th -23rd March 2025) and...

Guest blog by Debra Parsons, Learning & Organisational Development Manager: Earlier this autumn, I was presented with the opportunity to deliver a short learning session, inviting feedback from our neurodivergent colleagues on our workshop delivery practices. The aim was to...

Thursday 16 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Digital accessibility is crucial for creating an inclusive world for everyone, ensuring equity of access to study and work. To mark the event, University of Bath staff and students have brought together a...

Whenever we open a book, it's easy to take for granted the very simple act of reading. It is important to remember for millions of visually impaired individuals, accessing the written word poses a unique set of challenges. On January...

We are very proud of our staff networks which are dedicated spaces for colleagues sharing particular circumstances or characteristics to connect with others and share their experiences. In particular our aFLAME disability network for staff and PGR. Aim of the...

National Disability Employment Awareness Month We are committed to putting equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do. Working with our community we developed a Disability Leave policy in 2013, to ensure that disabled members of staff...

Our aim is for everyone to thrive at work and this starts during the joining and induction phase.  Once a candidate is offered a position we offer a confidential process for new staff to disclose disability information via our pre-employment...

We pride ourselves on our developing recruitment practices that are free from unconscious bias, inclusive and accessible.  As an accredited Disability Confident Leader, we aim to build confidence and support disabled staff within our community. Following our renewal of the...

We pride ourselves on our developing recruitment practices that are free from unconscious bias, inclusive and accessible.  As an accredited Disability Confident Leader, we aim to build confidence and support disabled staff within our community. Following our renewal of the...

Last week Professor Rajani Naidoo (Vice-President (Community & Inclusion)) and Kevin McCormick (Head of Campus Services Commercial Operations) undertook the Wheelchair Challenge on campus. This challenge was set up by the aFLAME Disability Network: Staff and PGRs to show the...