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The National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) are inviting members of staff who work in higher education and self-identify as being disabled, neurodivergent and/or living with a long-term health condition and/or chronic illness to take part in a National Disability Staff Survey of your experiences of working in higher education. This survey is relevant to all those with disabilities working in academic, research, technical support, and professional services roles within higher education institutions in the UK, including postgraduate students working in the sector.

The data collected from this survey will support the development of RIDE HIGHER (Realising the Inclusion of Disabled Employees in Higher Education) a new framework to share best practice across the sector and drive our journey towards greater equity for disabled colleagues.

RIDE HIGHER is a core initiative of NADSN. The aim of RIDE HIGHER is to ensure that disabled staff in higher education are seen, valued and can thrive. Further information on RIDE HIGHER can be found here. If you would like to find out more about RIDE HIGHER and join our mailing list, please contact Melanie Best at melanie.best@wlv.ac.uk

Participation in this survey is voluntary and anonymous, and there will be no referencing of individual universities in the reporting of the results of this survey.

Ethical consent has been approved by Cardiff University to enable us to undertake this work with you. We have followed the University’s Policy on the Ethical Conduct of Research involving Human Participants, Human Material or Human Data.

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Professor Carol Evans, RIDE HIGHER’s strategic research lead for this initiative: evansc101@cardiff.ac.uk

Please access the survey through the link below, where further participant and consent information is available:

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/disability-inclusion-in-higher-education

The pilot survey opened on 27 November and will close on 31 January 2025.