Disclosing your disability

Telling us about your disability and AccessAbility's terms of service

If you have a specific learning difficulty, a condition on the autistic spectrum, a long term health or mental health condition, or a disability, please tell the AccessAbility team as soon as you can. This allows us to tell you about support and services that are available to you.

The best place for you to tell us is on your UCAS form or application form. However, you can also do it at any time during your studies, either by telling a member of staff in your department or by contacting the AccessAbility team. Any information you give will be treated with sensitivity and, in most circumstances, will not be passed on to your department without your knowledge. You will be asked to agree that AccessAbility can process your personal and special category data as you start working with the team.

You can request that information you disclose about your disability is kept within AccessAbility and the implications of this will be discussed with you.

You will, of course, be treated exactly the same as any other applicant before you apply to the University, during the application process, and when you are here. Apart from the professional standards of the University, you are protected by the Disability Discrimination Act.

If you would like to discuss the implications of disclosure, please contact us. 

All information will be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) and the General Data Protection Regulation (2018).