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London
Anna Freed
Anna Freed is a master’s student with the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and part of Disabled Students UK.
Anna completed her undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 2022, where she worked on various disability advocacy projects. Alongside consulting with DSUK, she has been working with Head Up!, a disabled-led mentoring organisation for disabled young people considering higher education, which she helped found in 2020. She is neurodivergent, has a nerve pain condition, and, since the start of the year, has been learning to live with Crohn’s and a stoma.
Bristol
Felicity McKee
Felicity McKee is a researcher and part of Disabled Students UK.
As an activist Felicity is passionate about issues of equality and intersectionality and this is reflected in her research output, having just recently submitted her PhD in Disability History. Felicity has sat on regional and national disabled students’ committees with NUS and NUS-USI and consults and advises on accessibility issues and policies for events and organisations. She is currently undertaking research at the University of Warwick for the Mitigation and Adjustment for Doctoral Education (MADE) project which explores reasonable adjustments and mitigating circumstances for doctoral students.
Birmingham and Plymouth
Mette Anwar-Westander
Mette Anwar-Westander is the Founding Director of Disabled Students UK, recognised by Shaw Trust as one of the most influential disabled-led organisations in the UK.
Mette is autistic and lives with a chronic illness. They graduated from the University of Oxford in 2019 and completed an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2023. As CEO of DSUK, Mette’s passion for disability wisdom, systems building, and impact strategy are all evident in the organisations’ approach to change.
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Beatrix Livesey-Stephens
Beatrix (Bea) Livesey-Stephens is a games industry researcher and part of Disabled Students UK.
Bea is an MPhil student at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, where she is currently writing her thesis on player calibration in analogue roleplaying games. Bea employs a Crip framework to both her research and her personal life as a multiply-disabled person, and she works within accessibility spheres in the games industry and beyond.
Manchester
Nikki Adebiyi
Nikki Adebiyi is a writer, activist and part of Disabled Students UK.
Nikki is a social entrepreneur who uses her lived experience to empower others. Drawing from her personal journey of overcoming anxiety and depression alongside her studies and career, in 2020 Nikki launched Bounce Black, a platform through which she advocates for the workplace and wellbeing needs of Black professionals. With steadfast commitment to driving impactful change, Nikki fearlessly champions diversity, equity, justice, and inclusion, earning recognition on Women Beyond the Box’s 2023 Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women list.
Useful resources from eQS Disability Support
How can e-Learning help students get the most out of their assistive technology?
For over ten years e-Learning portal, Learning Labs, has been helping students and employees get the most out of their assistive technology (AT) and fulfil their potential. Download this guide to understand the benefits of an e-Learning portal for AT.
Understanding the Co-occurrence of Mental Health Conditions with Dr Dominique Thompson
eQS Disability Support has recently worked with multi-award winning GP,
Dr Dominique Thompson, to create this useful download exploring the co-occurrence of mental health conditions.
Considering your SpLD assessment service? Watch this video.
Click the button below to discover the benefits of outsourcing
your SpLD assessments to a trusted partner and advice on
finding a high-quality SpLD assessment partner
A guide for neurodivergent students transitioning into the workplace
Nik Chard-Hall is an autistic nonmedical help consultant supporting
neuroinclusivity in higher education, with a specialism in neurodivergent
students transitioning from university into the workplace.
In this guide Nik showcases what resources and support he found useful, as a neurodivergent individual, when he first entered the workplace.
University of Sussex and Amano case study
Discover how the University of Sussex outsourced their
Non-Medical Help support workers service and increased
disabled student engagement and budgeting accuracy.
Get the free case study to learn about Amano’s bespoke
student reporting tool that can help flag individual students,
before they fall off track.
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