Thank you!

And shout out to @alexanderreid.bsky.social @xlearn.bsky.social, both pictured, along with Mandy (who I can't find on Bluesky!), along with interns Jas and Isabella, who collectively represented the wider project team at the awards.

We're delighted that this award recognises the fantastic work of our student interns and hope that it will help encourage people to use and share the toolkit - so thank you Inclusive Impact Awards! 6/6

If you'd like to see and use the Toolkit (and we very much hope you do), you can access it from our linktree: linktr.ee/DISCOProject 5/

The Toolkit was created to support researchers (in any discipline) in making their practices more inclusive and accessible to disabled people. We aim to provide practical, evidence-based guidance rooted in both lived experience and academic research, because inclusive research benefits everyone. 4/

This collaborative approach was central to the Research Toolkit project, which brought together academic colleagues from the Psychology department, a group of wonderful student interns from all levels of study and across the the university, and us, from the Digital Accessibility Unit. 3/

The award was The Bridge Builder Award: spanning teaching-research-practice divides, an award designed to recognise work that demonstrates education is an ecosystem, not a hierarchy, acknowledging the interconnected value of all university roles. 2/

It's so tempting but no... When explaining certain accessibility problems people can be doubtful that anyone did it - we always caveat with "I'm sorry if this sounds obvious but these are all things we've seen before!"

Thank you so much for sharing. I would also suggest thinking about accessibility more generally, I wrote a blog post that also reflects on other forms of accessibility and has a video that explains some of those decisions as well enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...