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Priority areas for UCL to improve support for Disabled and Neurodivergent staff and students
The Disability Equality Steering Group have identified areas of priority for UCL to improve the provisions and support for Disabled and Neurodivergent staff and students. These priorities will be fed into the Disability Equality Implementation Group in order to develop an institutional action plan for disability equality that will address each of these areas.
Students
- Disabled student awarding gaps
- Student SORAs (Summary of Reasonable Adjustments)
Staff Pipeline
- Progression and retention (current pipeline drop of Disabled/Neurodivergent staff PS progressing past Grades 6&7)
- Academic staff at senior levels (current underrepresentation of Disabled/Neurodivergent academic staff at senior levels) - accessible promotions and recruitment process
Data
- Accurate disability disclosure in MyHR and Portico
- Increase staff and student disability disclosure at UCL
Disability Resourcing
- Sufficient resourcing for disability equality work in EDI team
Reasonable Adjustments
- Consistency of advice provided by teams (EDI, HRBP and SSW); UCL staff upskilling around disability awareness and reasonable adjustments to be able to provide consistent appropriate advice and guidance
- Upskilling of managers and senior leadership around reasonable adjustments
- Better institutional guidance around reasonable adjustments
Culture
- Education and training (disability/neurodiversity awareness; ableism and microaggressions)
- Charter marks (Disability Confident/Business Disability Forum)
- Improved wellbeing/stress support for Disabled staff
- Ensuring HR policies do not discriminate and appropriately support for Disabled/Neurodivergent staff
- Further consultation (survey/focus groups) where required with Disabled/Neurodivergent Staff and Students to examine underlying reasons for the poor staff survey results
Accessibility
- Procurement of inaccessible systems or suppliers producing inaccessible materials/branding etc.
- UCL staff adhering to principles of digital accessibility in the production of materials (teaching, papers, documents, presentations etc).
- Digital accessibility training for staff