About the Project

Recent research at the University of Warwick, King's College London and the University of York has shown that disabled students report that their non-disabled student peers and academic staff often hold misperceptions and have a poor understanding of disability. For these reasons, this project will co-create a short flexible, open-access disability learning programme for students and staff at these universities to help raise awareness and challenge misperceptions about the lived experience of disabled students. This programme's aims, content, and delivery will be co-designed with disabled students lived experiences and student researchers.

Project Aims

• To co-create a flexible and disabled student-centred learning programme for staff and students at UK universities to help increase knowledge and understanding of living with a disability
• To create a learning programme for staff and students: (1) to raise awareness of the lived experience of disabled students; (2) understand how disability can impact students learning and peer relations; (3) understand the need for reasonable adjustments, advocacy, and allyship; (4) provide staff and students with skills and strategies to work in more inclusive ways
• Share best practices across the sector from existing projects at UoW, KCL, and York. We will adopt a commonly used framework for designing learning programmes in community settings