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📋 Research Survey: Workplace Support for Disabled Employees
My name is Doreen, and I'm an MA student at the University of Essex researching how workplace accommodation frameworks affect whether disabled employees stay in work. I'd love your help! Whether you have lived experience of disability, work alongside disabled colleagues, or have managed employees with health conditions,…
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Carer’s Allowance Call for Evidence Submission
The government is currently debating whether the law on carers needs to be changed - maybe it does - but what about UNPAID carers - spouses who give up everything to care for their "loved ones" ? 1. Introduction I am submitting evidence because my wife has been my full‑time carer for more than 20 years. She provides care…
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Participants Needed for Spinal Cord Injury Research
Regenerating Presence: Immersive Nature Environments for Wellbeing and Place-Based Healing through XR We are looking for adults living in the UK with spinal cord injury (SCI) to take part in a research study exploring body image and body appreciation following SCI. Taking part will involve a short questionnaire, which…
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SEND Master student looking for individuals to interview!
Good afternoon! I am a University student studying Special Educational Needs currently doing my master dissertation!…
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Share your experience of home enteral feeding and homecare services
Project background The Patients Association are working with the medical device and healthcare company Abbott to better understand the experiences of adult patients who receive - or who have previously received - home enteral feeding (HEF) and have used homecare services. Home enteral feeding (HEF) is a way of providing…
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Free app to find toilet, parking and health facilities: Find Nearby
Hi everyone, My name is Callum and I’m the Glasgow-based founder of Find Nearby, a mobile app that helps people quickly find toilets, parking, benches, playparks, health locations and other useful places nearby. I’ve recently made several key accessibility, family and health searches completely free with no ads, including…
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Kindness
Recently I’ve managed to get outdoors some more and have discovered a secret garden that I like to sit in. It’s very peaceful and shaded which helps when it’s been hot. I don’t see many people here but I was there recently and I wasn’t feeling well and I guess it must have shown in my face because someone came and gave me…
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National Emergency Briefing
It wasn't an eye opener for me, and it's being shown across the country. If anything, it made me angry and sad at the current and past governments. https://www.nebriefing.org/the-film
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Work without barriers - Support our new campaign
Disabled people who can and want to work are being held back. Not because they cannot do the work, but because work is failing them. Too often, rights to adjustments are ignored. Workplaces are inaccessible, and outdated attitudes mean disabled people are undervalued and overlooked. It does not have to be this way. 2 years…
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Looking for wheelchair users to take part in a UCL research interview
Hi everyone, I'm Harini, an MSc student at UCL. I'm doing research on how fire crews could better understand and support wheelchair users when they arrive at a fire in a residential building. When a fire crew arrives, the first minutes count. Right now they often have little or no information about what wheelchair users…
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NEW RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
PLEASE FORGIVE THE CAPS FOR I HAVE VISION LOSS. I AM A DISABLED FOUNDER WORKING ON NEW IDEAS THAT WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OF ALL AGES. PARENTS WITH DISABLED CHILDREN ARE INCLUDED. OUR LOCAL HEROES, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL. I RECENTLY HEARD THAT AFFORDABLE HOMES ARE EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO…
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Does anybody have any engineering designer contacts ?
I have come up with a viable design for a tracked "electric lawn creeper" and want to take it further …… I need a University contact or similar….. thanks Wibbles
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Hardships Faced by Disabled Songwriters and Building a Safe Disability Artist Community
My name is Gavin Clifton, and I am The Disabled Writer. I was born with cerebral palsy, and I have a speech impediment. Still, I never let this stop me. I am a bestselling children's book author, songwriter and disability advocate. I am writing my own autobiography about living with cerebral palsy to educate others on the…
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🌈 Pride Month - June 2026 🌈
Pride Month is celebrated annually in June marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots. You can learn more about Stonewall riots on this post from last year’s pride month: 🌈 The History of Pride: The story of Stonewall Inn 1969 🌈 Pride is a celebration of unity! Of love and friendship, acceptance and equality. It’s an…
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Exploring AI as Workplace Support for Disabled People
I am conducting a research project for Masters in Disability, Design and Innovation at Loughborough University, with support from Scope, to explore how workplace support and assistive technology could better meet the needs of disabled people. I am inviting disabled people to take part in a short online survey about: Your…
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remember how to be bigger & better
People don't like home truths or sarcasm… the latter esp as people don't like putdowns that's worthy of the golden girls. its way betetr treating them out there like this, instead of shouting, swearing, you knowz whatever happens these people will get the "benefit of doubt"… but you rise above it!
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Mental Health Help-Seeking Experiences of Disabled - join the board!
My name is Kayley Baker (She/Her) and I am a Disabled and Queer PhD student at the University of East Anglia. My PhD project is exploring the Mental Health Help-Seeking Experiences of Disabled-LGBTQ+ Adults (18+), as such I am looking to recruit a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) board who will act as lay advisors for…
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Pride Cymru 1999-2026
Where it began. In the summer of 2024 celebrated 25 years of pride in Wales. The first Cardiff Mardi Gras was held in 1999, after South Wales Police noted a surge in hate crimes towards the LGBTQ+ community. Working with Safer Cardiff, the first ever Cardiff Mardi Gras was held and attended by 5-6000 people. With the…
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Help shape care for people with learning disabilities: short online survey
Researchers at St Mary's University are looking for health and social care staff based in the UK to take part in a short online study exploring professional judgement in relation to people with learning disabilities. The findings will be used to advocate for their wellbeing. The survey takes around 15 minutes and involves…
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Purpl Discounts
Hello, I just came across purpldiscounts.com and wondered if anyone had heard of it/use it? Apparently you can get discounts as a disabled person, I saw some as much as 20%.