Disability History Month

Find out about support available for disabled students at Lancaster University

For more information visit the Disability Service webpage

For students requiring specific accessibility support, Disabled Students' Allowances funding may be available through Student Finance or your relevant Funding Council. The Disability Service can arrange an assessment for you.

The Transitions Team at Lancaster University offer pastoral support to help you to settle in, connect with others, and look after your wellbeing.

For more information visit the Transitions Team webpage

Students with a disability or health condition may be entitled to additional support, and we have a range of provision which all students can access to help with studies. 

Find out about the following support available at Lancaster through Inclusive support for all students:

• One to ones
• Workshops
• Online resources
• Assistive technology

The Inclusive Learning Network (ILN) is an open network that meets regularly, the ILN is designed to bring colleagues from across the university together to provide an opportunity to share inclusive good practice covering all aspects of the student life cycle and inclusive practices impacting on staff. Representatives from ASQ, Careers, Counselling and wellbeing, Disability Service encompassing Transitions Team, Educational Developers, Faculty outreach and success, Global experience, Learning Developers, Learning Technology (broader ISS), Library Academic Liaison, LUSU, LGBTQIA+ Allies, Parents and Carers, Race Equality, and Women’s Network. Faculty and Departmental administrators, academics and teaching fellows attend to share their good practice and raise issues or ask questions about inclusive provision.

Join the ILN by engaging with it in MS Teams

These webpages provide information and guidance to help staff to understand and implement support for disabled students at Lancaster.

The Disability and Inclusion Toolkit provides two strands of support.

• Part 1 is a practical guide to both implementing and understanding our current system of reasonable adjustments for disabled students.
• Part 2 is a start-up guide to the consideration of more inclusive approaches of support which can give you the tools and ideas to make your practice more inclusive for everyone, to remove the need for the majority of additional reasonable adjustments for disabled students.

For guidelines for staff on working with coversheets, including downloadable notes:

• ILSP coversheet advice

• Disability awareness training
  This training offers an insight into the work done by the Disability Service including ILSPs, alternative assessment arrangements, and what to do if a student discloses a disability to you. Training is flexible and interactive to suit your needs. 
  Book Disability Awareness Training
• Autism awareness training
  This online session looks at strategies to support students with an Autism diagnosis. While we are not Autism specialists, we work with students with an Autism diagnosis daily. This training draws on our experience in sharing strategies for supporting these students.
  Go to Autism Awareness Training
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Lancaster University have put together a range of information for staff relating to the University's Disabled Student Policy, including the legal framework and adjustments that students can expect. While this is predominantly aimed at staff, as students, you also have the right to know what level of service you can expect from the University. What is classed as a disability can also be a source of some confusion, so the FAQs section below aims to answer these and other policy-related queries.

Disabled Students Policy and FAQs