About Us

Why are we interested in community & beloning?

A sense of belonging at University has been found to be a key factor in not only student retention and achievement but also student experience.  With disabled students more vulnerable to isolation, dropping out and lower attainment, we hope that fostering community and a sense of belonging can help towards mitigating these vulnerabilities.  As well as providing a safe base from which positive change and advocacy can stem from to improve accessibility and inclusion for disabled students at the University of York.  

What do we get up to?

Fostering a community can be a difficult task, particularly when students with disabilities often have more and unique barriers to engaging with activities beyond their course.  So this project aims to work with students to slowly grow an inter-departmental community through research, running community events, building relevant support resources, working to make our departments and University more accessible and wherever else our disabled students' needs take us.  We are very committed to making this work research and student-led and so we actively encourage interested students to get involved.  

We are a very new (and shiny!) initiative, so we are at the very start of community building journey, but watch this space to see what we get up to and maybe even consider coming along with us for the ride!