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The psychology disability committee is a student-led group aiming to help disabled psychology students meet others and find their place in the department. As well as providing support and understanding from other disabled students.
Our Committee
Our Committee
What do we do?
What do we do?
Here are some of the initiatives we current run:
Study Support: where we aim to help students with academic struggles, featuring the beautiful Helen the help duck! This includes our body doubling group study session - Study with Us
Socials: where we organise events throughout the year to allow students to meet others like them, get to know the department better, and have a bit of fun!
Workshops: We slowly building a series of workshops aim at addressing the particular needs of student's with disabilities. Let us know if you have any ideas for a workshop!
Campaigns: We also run mini campaigns within the department to help improve accessibility and inclusion.
We're also now part of the newly form inter-departmental disability network: DISCO (Disability Community).
Who can join our events and committee?
Who can join our events and committee?
In short - anyone!
While we are aimed at creating support and community for those with disabilities, many of our events and iniatives would help and be of interest to any student for many reasons. So even if you don't identify as disabled, but you like the sound of one of our events or sessions, please come along 😃.
If you're interested in joining our committee visit the 'Join Our Committee' page.
What is considered a disability by the committee?
What is considered a disability by the committee?
We know it can be difficult to understand what is covered by the term disability. The committee works under a very flexible idea using the following principles:
Disabilities can include mobility difficulties, long-term health conditions, sensory difficulties, mental health difficulties as well as learning difficulties and other neurodivergent conditions such as ADHD and Autism.
This isn't an exhaustive list - in short we consider anything that can have the potential to have a negative impact on your daily life for a long period of time, even if this fluctuates.
We never ask anyone to justify their disability, if you identify as disabled this is all that is needed. Whether you're diagnosed, self-diagnosed or just not sure yet.
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