Grantham Institute SSCP Doctoral Training Programme.
“Moving to London was a big thing for me, I am used to being close to the outdoors where things are calm and quiet.”
Callum is part the of the Imperial Inclusive personae project. To find out more about Tony and to meet other personae visit the Inclusive Personae website.
Working with DAS
As a deaf student I always had support from the disability service in Edinburgh so contacting them at Imperial was an obvious thing to do. I first spoke to my departmental disability officer, or the DDO and then to DAS, which is the Disability Advisory Service. Because I have what is termed a ‘sensory impairment’ I needed to provide a statement from my doctor, but there is an online process for submitting this as well as booking an appointment.
As a new PhD I didn’t really know what support would be available to me but during the appointment with the advisor we discussed it and the suggestion to my department was that I get my own office space to minimise noise. I am also going on one-to-one inclusive technology training to see what other things the university has that might be able to support me.
Using Panopto
I used Media Hopper when I was at Edinburgh to get captions for lectures and stuff which worked fine, so I was a little worried that Imperial would be different, but Panopto seems fine. Imperial also has live captions for teams which is helpful too. I am still new to the PhD programme, and I am sure there will be other things that I need to learn but for now I am pretty happy that my needs are being supported.
The process
