![]() ![]() Out of this grew a poster campaign, launched in March 2020, aimed at bringing important insights from our "experts by experience" – staff and students who live with these conditions - to a wider audience. ![]() Led by the Athena Swan Professional Services Working Group, we designed and delivered a very successful half-day awareness raising event in May 2019. If you are an IHW staff member or student and would like to talk to someone in confidence about an invisible disability, please contact Cindy Gray, Kate O'Donnell or Asha Costigan. In 2018, as part of our Athena SWAN equality, diversity and inclusion activities, School of Health and Wellbeing began to consider the ways in which we could support staff and students with unseen conditions and create a culture where individuals felt safe to disclose their disability and ask for reasonable adjustments to help reduce the disabling impact or avoid triggering symptoms. These include: diabetes extreme fatigue depression digestive disorders HIV sensory impairment chronic pain eating disorders ADHD cystic fibrosis anxiety autism epilepsy. Athena SWAN in SHW Invisible disabilities in work and study environments: raising awareness, reducing stigma, starting conversationsĪ SHW campaign to raise awareness of unseen conditions and how to support affected colleaguesĪround 70% of disabled people live with conditions that are largely or wholly invisible to the outside world, and that they may be reluctant to disclose for fear of stigma, misconceptions or discrimination. ![]()
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