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West Midlands Cycling and Walking Changes Survey
http://snapsurveys.wmca.org.uk/snapwebhost/s.asp?k=160026373918&_ga=2.117686857.1365914476.1603275987-1354983085.1585142831 Hi everyone, My name is Logan and I work for Transport for West Midlands in the Cycling and Walking team. You may know that there have been lots of changes across the West Midlands (Birmingham,…
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The effect of lockdown on children with Cerebral Palsy - have your say!
Hello everyone! My name is Bronwyn Gavine - I am a doctor and PhD student in Clinical Neurosciences. Together with a team of researchers at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford we are passionate about learning about the developing brain and how we can help improve interventions for children with…
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Your experience as a mobility scooter user / wheelchair user during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hello all, thank you for reading my post. Please do not hesitate to give me feedback and ask further questions. The Design Age Institute (part of the Royal College of Art) is collaborating with Centaur Robotics. The company has developed a self balancing vehicle which is compact and manoeuvrable. You can see the vehicle on…
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free webinar - supporting disabled students from outreach to employment
Supporting disabled university students from outreach to employment Join us for a collaborative webinar from, STAART and employability and careers (University of Greenwich), DnA and Evenbreak. We will discuss how we can support disabled students from pre-entry through to employment. There will also be time for Q&A. Tuesday…
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Tell the Department for Transport about your experience with pavement parking
The Department for Transport are running a consultation on pavement parking. Pavement parking is already illegal in London, but they're looking to make this illegal across the UK. This would be a really
positive step forward, making streets more accessible for lots of disabled people
including wheelchair users and people…
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Tell the Department for Transport about your experience with pavement parking
The Department for Transport are running a consultation on pavement parking. Pavement parking is already illegal in London, but they're looking to make this illegal across the UK. This would be a really positive step forward, making streets more accessible for lots of disabled people including wheelchair users and people…
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Tell Scope about attending a remote benefit assessment or looking for work during lockdown
We would like to hear from disabled people who have had a remote benefit assessment, or who have been looking for work during the coronavirus lockdown. In March, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) suspended face-to-face benefits assessments in response to the lockdown. Since then, the DWP has carried out remote…
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Writing a book where the main character has Cerebral Palsy
Hello all, First off - mods/admins if this isn't ok, then please do just delete the thread. Ok - my name is Andrew Shanahan and I'm an author. My first book came out in January and it's called Before and After. It's about a man who is stranded in his home, while a pandemic ravages the world outside. I wrote it last year…
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Pip and social support Supreme Court ruling.
Hi I’ve read the ruling and I’m confused. Are they going to be checking everyone’s claim or is it just for claims that began after 2016 ? I scored 2 on the discripter and currently have 11 points.I can not attend appointments or leave the house without support from my mental health team or Son. My reports also says this.…
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QUICK TASK: Help us organise Scope's website
THIS RESEARCH HAS NOW ENDED, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION. We will be publishing leisure and travel
information and advice on the website soon. We want to check that this will be
easy for people to find. To do this we want to hear from you! We would like you to complete a quick online task called a card
sort.…
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Participants needed for virtual workshops on inclusive sportswear design for upper limb impairment.
Hi all, I'm a disabled design researcher at London College of Fashion looking at sportswear design process for people with upper limb impairment. If interested, please let me know! Details below: Participants needed for PhD research on inclusive sportswear design at University of the Arts London. The aim is to present…
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Looking for ASD participants for my study
Hi Everyone, Overview: Hi everyone, I hope you all are well? I hope you don't mind me posting this post to your page, I myself am autistic. This study is a precursor to a new possible diagnosis tool for individuals (primarily female) whom camouflage their autism. This current study will us the evidence required to making…
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Research Recruitment Flyer - Exploring disabled teachers’ perceptions
Research Recruitment Flyer Exploring disabled teachers’ perceptions of the journey to senior leadership study 2018-20 Are you a disabled aspiring or established senior leader in a secondary school in England or Wales? If so, would you able to spare up to two hours to share your views on your experiences of progression to…
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Hi, my name is anicaz! - looking for study participants - experience of disabled people COVID/work
Iam a registered blind researcher. I recently received funding from the British Academy to do a diary study on disabled people and their experience of work during the pandemic. To include as many disabled voices as possible, work is understood very broadly and includes full-time, part-time as well as casual work,…
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Would you like to be on TV and have one of your treasured items repurposed?
About the show BBC Two has commissioned a new show called 'Saved and Remade', which will be presented by Sabrina Grant. Saved and Remade brings together the
multiple skills of a team of expert craftspeople to help solve viewers’
conundrums of what to do with treasured, but purposeless, items. Host Sabrina
Grant, herself no…
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International survey on COVID and the effect on intellectual and/or developmental disabilities
Morning folks. Please see a link below for an international survey on how COVID has affected some disabled people and their caregivers .................................................................... Dear all I’m emailing to inform you about an international survey on the impact of COVID 19 on individuals with…
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SHIELDING 2020 – An upsetting experience that we must not forget
A month on from Shielding coming to an end, how are you all doing? I wrote this piece at the time: https://joelvsarthritis.co.uk/shielding-2020/. I have been reflecting on it today more than ever as my son, who shielded with me for 5 of his 18mths of life, returned to nursery today. I have very mixed emotions. I'm…
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Scope research for BSL users
Hi! I'm James, and I run our Scope Research Panel. I arrange research projects for disabled people and their families, and I'm hoping to speak to some people who are fluent in BSL for an exciting research project that we're doing on a new product. The participants will have a chat to my Scope colleague Maria, who is our…
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Hi, my name is JDContreras and I'm researching people's fear and struggles.
Hi I am Juan <moderator removed - personal details> a former patient of Great Ormond Street Hospital and have a neurological condition. I have Glutaric Aciduria type 1 and Dystonia. I have suffered a lot over the years with fear and speaking out which is why I want to give a voice to those that feel vulnerable and those…
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Coronavirus and SEN Children
Does your child have special educational needs or disabilities?
We’re a team of researchers at the University of York interested in how children with SEND and their parents are feeling during the Coronavirus outbreak and how they’d like to be supported. We’d be really grateful if you could spare 5-10 minutes to complete…
