Staff Disability Network

About 1 in 5 people come under the definition of disabled in the UK, in that they have a long-lasting condition which impacts day-to-day living. At Sheffield Hallam, our community reflects this in the student population though it is much lower in the staff population. Some staff and students may not identify as disabled. Others in our community may be carers or live with disabled people. Ultimately, we will all experience disability or the impact of disability in our lives, either through lived experience, through supporting family and friends or our students and colleagues.

The Community of Inclusive Practice, with sponsorship from the Disability Steering Group and HROD have commissioned a Listening Rooms Project, an award-winning research methodology, to hear the voices of our neurodivergent students and staff.  

“I don’t work with or teach anyone who has a disability”. This is a phrase I  heard quite often when I was working on digital…

There are over 7,000 disabled students at Sheffield Hallam University. Which is a considerable proportion of our student population. Some students might not consider themselves Disabled or identify with a label. We provide support and guidance for all disabilities and medical conditions that have lasted or are likely to last, for 12 months or more. Find out what specific support is available.

Hello everybody, and Happy Bonfire Night eve! I will be spending this year’s bonfire night doing my master’s work, but I hope I can…

Hello all and hope you are all settling into the new academic year. It’s very rainy at the moment; I’ve had to dig out…

“He can’t be Joseph; he can’t even speak properly” bellowed Claude Von Buttface. I recoiled in shock. “He can do whatever he wants” exclaimed Mr T. Now, this may sound like the mutant hybrid of a scene from Diary of a Wimpy Kid and The A-Team but it was actually a narrative from the 1985 Oakland County Primary School nativity audition.  Claude Von Buttface’s name has been changed to protect his identity and Mr T was my second-year teacher, real name Mr Turrell (but as we were all A-Team mega fans, he let us call him it).

Hello all and welcome back! We hope you have managed to have some time to rest this summer, ready for another academic year. Even…

Hello, I’m Liz one of the Communication Officers. I know lots of people look forward to it, but I’ve been having a hard time…

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