Clinical psychologist Dr Rachel Perkins spoke about creating mentally healthy environments. She develops and influences the development of mental health services nationally and internationally and her work has had significant impact on the lives of service users returning to work. Dr Perkins lives...

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Fri 28 Mar 2014

Writer, artist and part-time super-hero Jess Thom is ‘changing the world one tic at a time’. She spoke about the often misunderstood neurological condition Tourettes, which causes her to say ‘biscuit’ up to 16,000 times a day. Performing and writing are transforming her experience of Tourette’s, as...

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Fri 15 May 2015

How do you translate the theory of inclusive design into a pragmatic reality? Dr Sue Kroeger, Director of Disability Resources at the University of Arizona, describes her experience of managing the transition from making changes to teaching on an individual level to the transformative idea of...

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Mon 25 Apr 2016

Can inclusive design principals lead to greater innovation?

Saqib Shaikh, a software engineer at Microsoft, has personal experience of how technology has greatly improved his life, as someone who is visually impaired.

He will describe research at Microsoft to empower disabled people, and how...

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Thu 27 Apr 2017

This is the video recording of the 15th Annual Disability Lecture held at St Johns College on 22nd March 2018. Our speakers, Dr Hamied Haroon, Professor Farah Mendlesohn, and Professor Nigel Lockett provided lively, engaging and encouraging accounts of their careers so far. For subtitles please...

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Mon 21 May 2018

Poppy Jaman OBE is an internationally respected mental health advocate, national policy adviser and social entrepreneur who has played an instrumental part in making mental health a high priority for public and private sector employers. She gave this year's Annual Lecture looking at the factors...

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Mon 17 Jun 2019

Recording of Dr Ross Cooper's lecture on Neurodiversity and Dyslexia, at the 8th Annual Disability Lecture, on 16 March 2010.

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Tue 23 Mar 2010

The 10th Annual Disability Lecture: Two steps forward, one step back: challenges to disabled people in 2013 was given by Dame Anne Begg MP on 18 April 2013 at 5.30pm in the Palmerston Room at St Johns College. The lecture was an opportunity to hear Dame Anne Begg discuss her view on the challenges...

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Fri 10 Jan 2014

Panel Event: If I knew then what I know now; disabled people reflect on their careers, This event featured a range of disabled people who are successful and high profile in their careers talking about their careers. We asked them to talk about the secrets of their success, their career highlights...

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Wed 10 Apr 2013

Disability Resource Centre (DRC) multimedia uploads.

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Tue 9 Aug 2011

A series of six films featuring disabled students. The series has been produced to raise awareness about disclosure, the application process, and support available for disabled students at Cambridge.

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Mon 25 Feb 2013