Websites

The University provide guidance for using google sites through the following link: Google Sites Library Subject Guide.  

But what should you add to it?

What you include on your website is very dependent on your specific community needs and wants as well as what will help you as an organiser for the community. Therefore, this list is a guide or thinking prompt and will not catch all ideal sections for your website - but it will hopefully help you get started:

1. A page introducing yourselves and who you are.

2. How to contact the community - so sharing your email address or any social media accounts you have.  

3. A page or section introducing what disability support is available at the University and/or in your department.

4. Pages for your events and initiatives, to help you promote them and provide further information about them.  You can then create QR codes and shorted URL links of these pages to add to posters or other promotional materials.  

5. A Join Us page - so people know how to get involved if they want to.

6. A What's on page where you can collate all of your events and activities in one place.  Creating and sharing a google calendar can be a great way of easily sharing this.  

You can include all of the above, or just some of the above and/or other sections not even mentioned.  The website is up to you and your needs.  

Exactly what support information and signposting you include is up to your community and the capacity of your committee or organising group.  Navigating support can be tricky for anyone, but it can be particularly tricky for those with disabilities so whatever you can provide will be helpful.  

It's important you work with and/or check in with a member of staff around information and signposting.  Whether this is your disability contact/champion, head of department, wellbeing officer or other staff member.  This is to ensure the information and signposting you provide is relevant, up-to-date and correct.  

Here are some potential avenues for what you could include in this section of your website if you want to include something like this:

1. You could provide signposting links and guidance to how students can access disability support at the University. 

2. You could provide information and guidance for department-based activities.  For example if your department has labs you could share information around lab support and adjustments.  

3. You could provide signposting and links to University internal and extermal websites were students can find out support and information.

4. You could provide signposting and links to other support groups both within and outside of the University.  

Including information about events and other initiatives on your website is a great way to share and promote your community.

Events

Creating a page for any events you run provides you with a place to include full information about the event, including information around how you are making the event accessible and inclusive.  You can then create QR codes and shortened URLs for promoting your events on posters and screens etc.  

These pages can also help to show what kind of things your organise and get up to - helping any curious website visitor to see what you're all about.  

Intiatives

This is anything that's not a event, so it could be a campaign or new resource you've build to help provide support.  Including this on your website helps you to keep a record of what you do that people can see, as well as providing a way for you to share and promote these initiatives through QR codes and shortened links.