Disability Service

Disability Services

Disability Services are part of Wellbeing Support Services at the University of Warwick.

The University of Warwick’s Disability Service provides advice, information and support to disabled students, including those with a specific learning difficulty or a long-term health condition (including mental health conditions).

Specialist advisers will assist in providing information and arranging appropriate support to enable you to learn effectively.

Disability Services

Reasonable Adjustments

Reasonable adjustments refer to modifications or accommodations made to ensure that you have equal access to education and an inclusive learning environment. These adjustments are considered on an individual basis and are intended to level the playing field, mitigate the impact of your condition, and support you in your academic pursuits. Find out about support options and schedule a meeting with a Disability Adviser to discuss your individual needs; they will then contact your department for you.

Any students who had reasonable adjustment during their UG or Masters courses, or those have not had adjustments in the past, but feel that they may need further support, should book a meeting with a Disability Advisor so that they can review what support can be provided.

Though PGR students do not normally have to complete scheduled/marked essays or timed exams, that doesn't mean that the University cannot support students who have previously had reasonable adjustment in place.

For PGR students, adjustments make take such forms as: accommodating rest breaks in the upgrade, annual review or Viva Voce meetings, publishing key questions in advance of a meeting, informing staff panel members in advance that additional time, or rephrasing of questions may be required.

Reasonable Adjustments

Mitigating Circumstances

Mitigating Circumstances are situations that are outside of a postgraduate research student’s control that they could not reasonably have foreseen and that have (or may in the future have) a negative effect are defined as mitigating circumstances. Situations affecting PGRs which may have a ‘negative effect’ include:

• performance in a formal Progression Review (including upgrade from MPhil or MRes to PhD), or final viva voce;
• the ability to meet a deadline for submission of a Progression Review Report, or final thesis for examination (i.e. requiring a registration extension);
• the ability to meet a deadline for submission of minor and major corrections to a thesis following the viva voce;
• the ability to meet a deadline for submission of a revised thesis for re-examination following the viva voce.

The Doctoral College will be implementing a new PGR Mitigating Circumstances process for 2025/2026, and details of how the process will be managed will be available via the Doctoral College Policy PagesLink opens in a new window.

Social Inclusion

Social Inclusion at the University of Warwick is about removing economic, social, and cultural barriers that have prevented people from working, studying, and succeeding.

The Social Inclusion Strategy will help Warwick to re-imagine the original purpose of setting up the University in 1965, to ‘increase access to higher education’.

The University of Warwick’s purpose, to achieve excellence with purpose in education and research is supported by four strategic priorities: Innovation, Inclusion, Regional Leadership, and Internationalisation. The Social Inclusion Strategy will help Warwick to re-imagine the original purpose of setting up the University in 1965, to ‘increase access to higher education’. Through this Strategy, the University aspires to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that have prevented people from working, studying and succeeding at Warwick, and to be recognised as best in class in its approach to equality, diversity and inclusion, for staff and students by 2030.

Social Inclusion Strategy

Equality

The Equality Act became law in October 2010.

The Act replaces previous equality legislation (such as the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995), bringing together over 116 separate pieces of legislation into one Act to ensure consistency and a single framework for tackling disadvantage and discrimination.

Below you can find information about three key elements of the Equality Act. You can read the full text of the Equality Act on the Government's Legislation webpages.

University Equality Policy for Staff and Students

University Nursery

The Nursery provides wrap-around childcare for staff and students of the University of Warwick with children aged 3 months to 5 years.

Details of the Nursery, including fees and opening hours, can be found on the University Nursery website.

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