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Robert Hunter’s post for The Limping Chicken

This week our founder Robert Hunter has written a post for The Limping Chicken – the UK’s independently run deaf news and deaf blog site, and the most popular deaf blog site in the world. Robert writes about what it’s like to work in the City as a lawyer who is deaf, and why he

This week I have been introducing new mentees to mentors. Every time we make an introduction through our mentoring service we get people talking and sharing, and we take another step towards improving the working lives of everyone who has a disability or long term health condition. It is, by far, my favourite part of

Read an interview with Trust Officer Liz Dawes in the University of London Careers Group Blog. We offer advice to students with disabilities as they start to consider employment. You can read the interview here.

This week we’ve been talking to students who are thinking about getting a job. Like all students, they have many things to consider: What profession will suit them? Will they make it through rigorous selection procedures? Can they secure a work placement? Unlike other students, the ones we speak to have an additional concern: Should

City Disabilities is featured in Kent University’s “Employability” blog today. Click here to read our advice and support, offered to graduates with disabilities who are looking to start a career in London.

In the first of our weekly round ups, Liz Dawes talks about meeting some of our mentees, hearing their stories, and reaching out to City employers. There is much to do…… City Disabilities’ aim is to make London a more human place for people with disabilities to work, and from the beginning it was clear

Read Robert Hunter’s interview with Access Magazine this week: Unfinished Business – making the City more inclusive.

Read Robert Hunter’s article for The Law Society’s Lawyers with Disabilities Division, on how employers in the City are dealing with disabled professionals. Are things really improving on a day-to-day basis? Read more here.

City Disabilities has hired Liz Dawes as a Trust Officer. Liz Dawes studied Law at Oxford University, and has had a diverse legal career, both in private practice and in a commercial environment. Liz joined Allen & Overy as a newly qualified solicitor in the litigation department. She worked on several high profile public inquiries,

Inclusive Diversity have published an article by one of our mentors, Yasmin Sheikh, on the unconscious bias that often occurs when we meet people with a disability. Click here to read more.

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Robert Hunter’s post for The Limping Chicken

What does being a mentor involve?

Read our advice to students with disabilities via University of London Blog

Weekly round-up: Should I disclose my disability?

City Disabilities featured in Kent University’s Employability blog

Our first weekly round up: There is much to do.

Interview with Trustee Robert Hunter in Access Magazine

Article via Lawyers with Disabilities Division by Trustee Robert Hunter

City Disabilities hires Trust Officer

Inclusive Diversity article by mentor Yasmin Sheikh